Phillips de Pury Goes to Kassay Again

Not quite as sought after as their larger kin, Jacob Kassay’s silver paintings remain
a favorite of collectors.

The Kassay family has been producing silver paintings for more than a century. Jacob Kassay, the patriarch of the family, was born in 1856 in the village of Kassay, in the province of Kassel, Germany. He was the son of a silversmith and