Josef Hoffmann | Carl Otto Czeschka
An Important and Unique Spielkartenkassette (Card Case), designed for Karl Wittgenstein
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November 19, 12:49 AM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Carl Otto Czeschka and Josef Hoffmann
1878-1960, 1870-1956
An Important and Unique Spielkartenkassette (Card Case), designed for Karl Wittgenstein
impressed WIENER/WERK/STÄTTE and with Czeschka's maker's mark
brass, gilt bronze, mother of pearl, macassar ebony and ivory
7 by 8 ¼ by 8 ¼ in.
17.8 by 21 by 21cm.
Executed circa 1907 by the Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, Austria.
Karl Wittgenstein, Vienna, commissioned directly from the artist
Thence by descent to Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, Vienna and New York
Parke-Bernet Galleries, March 4, 1949, lot 505
Private Collection, New York
Private Collection, Europe
Philippe Denys Gallery, Brussels
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 2000
Eduard F. Sekler, Josef Hoffmann: Das Architektonische Werk, Salzburg, 1982, p. 324 (for an archival image of the present work exhibited in the Kunstschau Wien 1908)
Exh. cat. MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Der Preis Der Schönheit: 100 Jahre Wiener Werkstätte, 2004, p. 163 (for an archival image of the present work exhibited in the Kunstschau Wien 1908)
Exh. cat. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, The Wittgenstein Vitrine: Modern Opulence in Vienna, 2016, pp. 25 and 26 (for an archival image of the present work)
Heinz Spielmann, Carl Otto Czeschka: Ein Wiener Künstler in Hamburg, Göttingen, 2019, pp. 98-99 (for an image and discussion of the present work exhibited in the Kunstschau Wien 1908) and p. 100 (for an archival image of the present work)
Vienna, Kunstschau Wien 1908, June 1 - November 16, 1908
