Description & Technical information

Designed by: Josef Hoffmann, around 1908
Executed by: Wiener Werkstätte 
Marked: WW, Austrian hallmark, head of Diana, (A for Vienna, 2 for 900/1000), A (for Vienna)

Silver, malachite (some cracks)

3.7cm x 5.3 cm

The letters in the centre of the brooch can be read as "E AST". The brooch was a gift to Elsa Ast, née Bacher, a jeweller’s daughter and the wife of physician Wilhelm II. Ast, who was a brother of the master builder Eduard Ast.
Sincere thanks to Dr Heinz Adamek for his kind information.

Exhibited at: “
Emilie Flöge. Reform der Mode, Inspiration der Kunst“, Gustav Klimt Zentrum am Attersee, 2016

Date:  around 1908
Period:  around 1908
Origin:  Austrian
Medium: silver, Malachite
Signature: 

Marked: WW, Austrian hallmark, head of Diana, (A for Vienna, 2 for 900/1000), A (for Vienna)


Dimensions: 3.7 x 5.3 cm (1¹/₂ x 2¹/₈ inches)
Provenance: private
property, Austria


Literature: 

Ref.: Tretter/Weinhäupl (eds.),
Gustav Klimt. Emilie Flöge. Reform der Mode, Inspiration der Kunst, Gustav
Klimt Zentrum am Attersee, exhib. cat., Vienna, 2016



Exhibitions: Emilie Flöge. Reform der Mode, Inspiration der Kunst“, Gustav Klimt Zentrum am Attersee, 2016

Categories: Silver