Josef Hoffman
10-piece museum-quality cutlery set
Josef Hoffman
10-piece museum-quality cutlery set
Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna
Date 1906
Period Early 20th century
Dimension 21.5 cm (8¹/₂ inches)
From the “RUNDES MODELL” (round model) cutlery design series comprising: 1 table fork, 1 table knife, 1 table spoon, 1 fish fork, 1 fish knife, 1 butter knife, 1 dessert fork, 1 mocha spoon, 1 ice cream spoon, 1 lemonade spoon.
Designed by: Josef Hoffmann, 1906
Executed by: Wiener Werkstätte1910/13, model nos. M 847, M 848, M 852, M 857, M 856, M 933, M 850, M 853, M 935, M 859Marked: WW, some with rose mark, master’s mark, JH, lemonade spoon: Austrian hallmark – head of Diana
Alpaca, silver plated, lime spoon silver
Table fork and lemonade spoon: L 21.5 cm
Executed in silver-plated alpaca and/or solid silver, this cutlery set was presented on the wedding banquet table in the 1906 Wiener Werkstätte exhibition "Der gedeckte Tisch"(the laid table). The list of buyers of this cutlery set features such names as Sonja Knips and Titus.
Date: 1906
Period: Early 20th century
Dimension: 21.5 cm (8¹/₂ inches)
Provenance:
private property, Austria
Literature: W. Neuwirth, Josef Hoffmann. Bestecke für die Wiener Werkstätte. Exhibition catalogue. Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, 1982, p. 78, 86 (designs: work no. M 847, M 852) and p. 25, illus. 11; MAK Inv. Nr. WWF 130-2-1; MAK Inv. Nr. WWF 130-1-1
Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna
Viennese Jugendstil, Secessionist Movement
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