Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill
SILVER TEA SET consisting of: teapot, creamer, covered sugar bowl, sugar tongs, rum flacon, tray
Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna
Date 1912
Epoque 20th century
Origine Vienna
Medium silver
Executed by: Wiener Werkstätte,
Silver, chased and hammered, teapot and sugar bowl gilded on the inside, teapot and creamer with finely carved ivory handles, excellent original condition
Our set is almost certainly the one depicted in the archives at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, photo volume WWF 95-157-2.
Date: 1912
Epoque: 20th century
Origine: Vienna
Medium: silver
Signature: Model nos. S 2478 (teapot), S 2485 (creamer), S 2484 (sugar bowl), S 2487 (sugar tongs), S 2486 (rum flacon), S 2562 (tray)
Marked: EWW, WW, WIENER WERK STÄTTE (3 lines), rose mark, Austrian hallmark – head of Diana (A for Vienna, 2 for 900/1000), 900
Provenance: private collection, USA
Literature: A contemporary photograph is preserved in the Wiener Werkstätte archives at the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, model nos. S 2562, S 2478, S 2484, S 2486, S 2487, S 2485; photo volume WWF 95-157-2 and design drawings are preserved in the Wiener Werkstätte archives, design drawings inv. no. KI 13261-1, KI 13261-2, KI 13214-16, KI 13261-3; Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, vol. XXXIII, 1913-14, p. 105
Exhibition: The same set, however without rum flacon, is part of the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, inv. no. WI 1115/1912, and was shown in 2003 in the exhibition "Yearning for Beauty, 100 years Wiener Werkstätte" at the MAK.
Plus d'œuvres d'art de la Galerie