A slim business card case in silver leafed copper with a twin frieze of soldiers, children and workers with wheelbarrows near trees with horses and goats.

H:1 W:11 D:7 CM

H:0.3 W:4.3 D:2.7 INCHES

Margit Tevan was born on 18 January 1901 in Bekescaba in Hungary into a Jewish family whose father ran an editing house.

Margit studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest and was tutored by two of the most famous goldsmiths of the time, Richard Zutt and Francis Kiss,  not interested in making jewels, she later joined Arpád Vértes' workshop which was better known under the name of "Stúdió" (1927-1928). 

The influence of the Bauhaus school is very evident in her early work and her artistic development continued, she was drawn towards an archaic romanticism, influenced by Romanesque art, and religious writings and imagery, it was then widely used in her friezes which decorate many cigarette boxes, cigar humidors, plates and goblets she produced.

The majority of the objects she produced during her life time are hand hammered and worked  silver-leafed copper with applied bronze or brass accents, she also worked in just silver and bronze.
Unusually you can often find traces that references both Jewish and Christian culture in her work.
Tevan participated in numerous exhibitions and received a Diplôme d'honneur for her work during the Paris World Exhibition in 1937. She also obtained a similar diploma during the 1939 New York World Fair. She won the silver medal at the VII Milan Triennial of 1940. In 1957, she won the Munkácsy Prize, the highest artistic recognition in Hungary, as well as numerous other prizes between 1971 and 1976.

She died in Budapest on 3 November 1978.