Josef Hoffmann / Wiener Werkstätte

SILVER BASKET

Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna

Date 1909

Epoque 1909

Origine Austrian

Medium silver

Dimension 22 cm (8⁵/₈ inches)

Designed by: Josef Hoffmann, 1909
Executed by: Wiener Werkstätte, model no. S 1548
Marked: JH, WW, two times Austrian hallmark – small head of Diana (A for Vienna, 2 for 900/1000), rose mark

Silver, “blossom pattern” decoration, glass liner missing, repairs at the handle, nice condition

H 22 cm

A total of 12 similar baskets were executed between 1909 and 1910. The details in the Wiener Werkstätte pattern book are imprecise, but our basket obviously differs from the one depicted in the pattern  books in terma of number of pattern rows and shape.
Sincere thanks to Dr. Anne-Kathrin Rossberg, MAK Vienna, and Mr. H.S. for this information.

Date: 1909

Epoque: 1909

Origine: Austrian

Medium: silver

Signature:

Marked: JH, WW, two times Austrian hallmark – small head of Diana (A for Vienna, 2 for 900/1000), rose mark

Dimension: 22 cm (8⁵/₈ inches)

Provenance: private property, Germany

Literature:

Ref.: cf. Wiener
Werkstätte pattern book, Blumenkörbchen (small flower basket), p. 1548


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Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna

Viennese Jugendstil, Secessionist Movement

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