Lot 57
  • 57

Josef Hoffmann

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Josef Hoffman
  • Four-piece silver and ivory tea and coffee set with matching tray
  • each piece marked on base with Hoffmann monogram, WW, WIENER WERK STÄTTE, rose mark, 900 (fineness), and official standard mark
  • silver, ivory
comprising teapot, coffee pot, creamer, and covered sugar bowl, with two-handled tray

Literature

Josef Hoffmann, 1870-1956: Ornament zwischen Hoffnung und Verlorechen, Vienna, 1987, p. 131
Josef Hoffmann: Variationen, exh. cat., Vienna, 1987, p. 64
Peter Noever, Josef Hoffmann Designs, Vienna, 1992, pp. 97 and 169
The Wiener Werkstätte, 1903-1918: Modern Decorative Art and Its Path, Vienna, 1929, reprinted Munich, 1994
Gabriele Fahr-Becker, Wiener Werkstätte: 1903-32, Cologne, 2003, p. 171

Catalogue Note

A six-piece set of this model, without tray and dated 1918-20, is in the collection of the Osterreichische Museum für angewandte Kunst (illustrated first  reference above, p. 131, M41).  Two Hoffmann designs for a covered creamer and a coffee pot of this form are dated 1923, illustrated ibid, p. 254, Z141 and Z143.