Josef Hoffmann - Four-Piece Tea Set

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Josef Hoffmann

Four-Piece Tea Set

Galerie bei der Albertina - Zetter

Date Around 1908

Period Jugendstil, Art Nouveau

Origin Vienna, Austria

Medium Alpaca, Silver-plated, Ebony

Manufactured by the Wiener Werkstätte for Cabaret Fledermaus, model number M 963 (teapot).

Date: Around 1908

Period: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau

Origin: Vienna, Austria

Medium: Alpaca, Silver-plated, Ebony

Signature: Marks: monogram GF, WIENER WERKSTÄTTE, rose signet, monogram JH (teapot); monogram GF, rose signet, WW, monogram JH (sugar bowl); monogram GF, rose signet, WW, monogram JH (milk jug); monogram GF, WW (tray)

Provenance:

Berlin private collection

Sotheby´s London, 1 November 1996, lot 21

The former owner Jacqueline Fowler acquired the tea set from the above-mentioned auction.

Literature:

cf WW-Archives, MAK Vienna, design sketch KI 12052-10 resp. KI 12052-12 (teapot)

cf Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener Werkstätte - Avantgarde, Art Déco, Industrial Design, Vienna 1984, ill. p. 103, no 67 (teapot)
Minor traces of usage, good original condition
H 13 cm (teapot), H 12.5 cm (sugar bowl), H 6.2 cm (milk jug), W 32.6 cm (tray)

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