Dagobert Peche - SILVER COFFEE SERVICE

Date	1920
Period	Vienna, 1920
Origin	Austrian
Medium	silver
Dimensions	32.5 cm (12³/₄ inches)
Gallery	Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna

Description
Technical

SILVER COFFEE SERVICE

consisting of: coffee pot, milk jug, sugar bowl, oval tray

Designed by: Dagobert Peche, Vienna, 1920

Executed by: Wiener Werkstätte, model no. S 5073, no. S 5074, no. S 5075

Marked: WIENER WERK STÄTTE (3 lines), monogrammed P with star for Dagobert Peche, MADE IN AUSTRIA; 900; the symbols of Mercury (Austrian export mark)

Silver, chased and hammered, bead-and-reel decoration, ivory handles, finial on coffee pot replaced in ivorine, very good original condition

Coffee pot: H 32.5 cm, milk jug: H 10.7 cm, sugar bowl: H 13 cm, tray: 47 cm x 51 cm

Date: 1920
Period: Vienna, 1920
Origin: Austrian
Medium: silver
Signature:

Marked: WIENER WERK STÄTTE (3 lines), monogrammed P with star for Dagobert Peche, MADE IN AUSTRIA; 900; the symbols of Mercury (Austrian export mark)

Dimensions: 32.5 cm (12³/₄ inches)
Provenance: private collection, United Kingdom

Literature:

M. Eisler, Dagobert Peche, Vienna, 1925, p. 27; Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, vol. 52, 1923, p. 99; Moderne Bauformen XXIV, 1925, p. 281; Archives of Wiener Werkstätte, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, design drawing inv. no. KI 12704-5 and KI 12668-7-2, model nos. S 5073-5075; a contemporary photograph is preserved in the Wiener Werkstätte photographic archives at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, inv. no. WWF 96-224-1; P. Noever, MAK (ed.), Der Preis der Schönheit, 100 Jahre Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, 2003, p. 338; P. Noever (ed.), Die Überwindung der Utilität, Dagobert Peche und die Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, 1998, p. 213, p. 338