The designer Henning Koppel is revered among fans of modernism, in his native Denmark and around the world, for the voluptuous pieces he sketched for the Danish silver brand Georg Jensen during a collaboration that lasted three decades.

Now, because of the work of archivists and artisans at the Georg Jensen workshop in Copenhagen, founded by a Danish ceramist and jeweler in 1904, a silver dish based on a piece that Koppel designed — and destroyed — in 1954 is being introduced.

Named the 1041 after its numerical place in the Georg Jensen archives, the contemporary piece, handcrafted from a 35-pound sheet of silver, was unveiled at a small ceremony at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art north of Copenhagen on May 8, which would have been Koppel’s 100th birthday (he died in 1981). But the company waited until last month to give the $150,000 piece a formal international introduction.

Nicholas Manville, senior vice president of design at Georg Jensen, describes the remaking of the 1041 as “forensic design” because the only clue to how it was created, besides a sketch discovered in the archives in December 2016, was a photograph.

“The only one we’ve ever known to exist was photographed in the hands of a man, so we got dimensions off the picture,” Manville said. “But then we realized he was nearly 7 feet tall, and we had it wrong.”

The silversmiths at Georg Jensen based their work on Koppel’s seminal designs for the brand — notably, his celebrated 1952 Pregnant Duck pitcher — which stand out for their “symphony of curves,” according to Cindy Trope, an associate curator at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

In its original form, however, the 1041 was not well received.

“He wasn’t happy with it,” acknowledged Koppel’s daughter, the sculptor Hannah Koppel. “It was too flat. It was not like this one — like it should be.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

Victoria Gomelsky © 2018 The New York Times