Josef Hoffmann - SILVER BASKET

Date	around 1906
Period	around 1906
Origin	Austrian
Medium	silver
Dimensions	18 cm (7¹/₈ inches)
Gallery	Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna

Description
Technical

Designed by: Josef Hoffmann, around 1906
Executed by: Wiener Werkstätte, model no. S 708
Marked: JH, WW, two times Austrian hallmark - small head of Diana (A for Vienna, 2 for 900/1000), 900, rose mark, master´s mark JH (for Josef Holi) in circle

Silver, square latticework, glass liner replaced, very good original condition

H 18 cm

Although a total of 36 baskets had been produced between 1906 and 1908 according to the Wiener Werkstätte archives, this model is extremely rare to find. Particularly striking the impressive formal resemblance to the Samsung Cultural Education and Entertainment Center in Seoul, designed and executed between 1990-1999.

Date: around 1906
Period: around 1906
Origin: Austrian
Medium: silver
Signature:

Marked: JH, WW, two times Austrian hallmark
- small head of Diana (A for Vienna, 2 for 900/1000), 900, rose mark, master´s
mark JH (for Josef Holi) in circle

Dimensions: 18 cm (7¹/₈ inches)
Provenance:

private property, Germany

Literature:

Ref.: G. Fahr-Becker (ed.), Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932, 1994, p. 31; Wiener Silber, Modernes Design 1780-1918, ill. p. 318; comp. Wiener Wekstätte pattern book,
vases, p. 708

Categories: Silver