Josef Hoffmann Rare box, model no. M 122 ca. 1904 Silver-plated alpaca. 1 3/4 × 5 3/8 × 4 in. (4.4 × 13.7 × 10.2 cm.) Executed by the Wiener Werkstätte, Austria. From the production of 18. Reverse impressed with “WIENER/WERK/STÄTTE.
Literature Christian Brandstätter, Wonderful Wiener Werkstätte: Design in Vienna 1903–1932, Vienna, 2003, p. 280; Michael Huey, ed., Viennese Silver: Modern Design 1780–1918, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2003, p. 301, cat. no. 160 for a similar example Catalogue Essay Josef Hoffmann’s preparatory drawing for the present lot is registered at the MAK, Vienna as K.I. 12047/2 The Wiener Werkstätte Model Book page for the present lot, on file at the MAK Vienna, records the initial provenances of twelve of the eighteen boxes produced. In addition to orders placed by the Werkstätte office in Vienna and its branch in Karlsbad, Germany, other boxes were purchased by prominent supporters of the firm including co-founder Fritz Waerndorfer and the Hirschwald Family, owners of a rare sconce (Lot 16) also in hammered silver-plated alpaca. Read More
Josef Hoffmann Rare box, model no. M 122 ca. 1904 Silver-plated alpaca. 1 3/4 × 5 3/8 × 4 in. (4.4 × 13.7 × 10.2 cm.) Executed by the Wiener Werkstätte, Austria. From the production of 18. Reverse impressed with “WIENER/WERK/STÄTTE.
Literature Christian Brandstätter, Wonderful Wiener Werkstätte: Design in Vienna 1903–1932, Vienna, 2003, p. 280; Michael Huey, ed., Viennese Silver: Modern Design 1780–1918, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2003, p. 301, cat. no. 160 for a similar example Catalogue Essay Josef Hoffmann’s preparatory drawing for the present lot is registered at the MAK, Vienna as K.I. 12047/2 The Wiener Werkstätte Model Book page for the present lot, on file at the MAK Vienna, records the initial provenances of twelve of the eighteen boxes produced. In addition to orders placed by the Werkstätte office in Vienna and its branch in Karlsbad, Germany, other boxes were purchased by prominent supporters of the firm including co-founder Fritz Waerndorfer and the Hirschwald Family, owners of a rare sconce (Lot 16) also in hammered silver-plated alpaca. Read More
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