Description & Technical information

Designed by: Josef Hoffmann/Philipp Häusler, design sketch: 22 June 1923
Executed by: Wiener Werkstätte, work no. A va 66 (glass)
 
This design was also rendered in brass and in glass. The design drawing for the goblet is signed by Philipp Häusler, who was Hoffmann’s assistant for the architecture master class at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts between 1911 and 1913. Around 1920, he was also the Head of Wiener Werkstätte.



Date:  around 1923
Period:  20th century
Origin:  Austria
Medium: Alpacca, Chased and hammered, Silver plated
Signature: Marked: WIENER WERK STÄTTE (3 lines), JH, Made in Austria

Dimensions: 28.5 x 16 cm (11¹/₄ x 6¹/₄ inches)
Provenance: Private collection, Austria   

Literature: Ref.: WW sales cat., 1928, p. 802; WW archive, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, design drawing inv. no. K 11967-18

Categories: Silver