Josef Hoffmann
FRUIT BASKET
Josef Hoffmann
FRUIT BASKET
Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna
Period 20th century
Origin Austrian
Medium silver
Dimension 16.5 x 24 x 19.5 cm (6¹/₂ x 9¹/₂ x 7⁵/₈ inches)
Designed by: Josef Hoffmann
Executed by: Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, comp. model no. S 1372
Silver, chased and hammered, hand polished, bead-and-reel decoration, excellent original condition.
Period: 20th century
Origin: Austrian
Medium: silver
Signature: Marked: WIENER WERK STÄTTE (3 lines), rose mark, JH, WW, master’s
mark AE (Adolf Erbrich), Austrian hallmark - head of Diana (A for Vienna, 2 for 900/1000)
Dimension: 16.5 x 24 x 19.5 cm (6¹/₂ x 9¹/₂ x 7⁵/₈ inches)
Provenance: Jacqueline Fowler, Connecticut
Literature: Contemporary photographs are preserved in the Wiener Werkstätte archives at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, inv. nos. WWF 94-106-2; WWF 94-106-1; WWF 187-88; Wiener Werkstätte
archives at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, design drawing inv. no. KI 12033-22; Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, XXV, 1910, p. 373
Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna
Viennese Jugendstil, Secessionist Movement
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