Josef Hoffmann / Wiener Werkstätte - COFFEE SET

Date	around 1920
Dimensions	18 cm (7¹/₈ inches)
Gallery	Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna

Description
Technical

consisting of coffee pot, milk jug, sugar bowl and sugar
tongs

Designed
by: Josef Hoffmann, Vienna around 1920

Executed
by: Wiener Werkstätte, from 1923, model no. S 4931 - S se
6-1, S 4932 - S se 6-2, S 4933 - S se 6-3, S 4928 - S se 6-4

Marked:
JH, WIENER WERK STÄTTE (3
lines), MADE IN AUSTRIA, Austrian hallmark – head of hoopoe (W for Vienna, 2
for 900/1000), 900

Silver, chased and finely hammered, ivory knobs and
handles, 1 knob restored, hand polished, small traces of use, excellent
original condition

H 18 cm (coffee pot), 15 cm (milk jug), 14 cm (sugar
bowl),

L 10 cm (sugar tongs)

Provenance: private property, Europe

Newly added cat. no. H21/68

Date: around 1920
Dimensions: 18 cm (7¹/₈ inches)
Literature:

Ref.: Wiener-Werkstätte archive at the Museum of
Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, model no. S 4931 - S se 6-1 (coffee pot), S 4932 -
S se 6-2 (milk jug), S 4933 - S se 6-3 (sugar box), S 4928 - S se 6-4 (sugar
tong); a contemporary photograph in the Wiener Werkstätte archive at the MAK,
Vienna, inv. no. WWF 96-205-2