Description & Technical information
Designed by: Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill, Vienna, 1912
Executed by: Wiener Werkstätte, model nos. S 2478 (teapot), S 2485 (creamer), S 2484 (sugar bowl), S 2487 (sugar tongs), S 2486 (rum flacon), S 2462 (tray)
Our service is almost certainly the one depicted in the archives of the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, photo book WWF 95-157-2.
Teapot: H 15 cm, creamer: H 6.5 cm, sugar box: H 12 cm, sugar tongs: L 10 cm, rum flacon: H 12.5 cm, tray: L 43 cm, W 34 cm, H 2.5 cm
Date: 1912
Period: 20th century
Origin: Vienna
Medium: Silver, chased and hammered
Signature: Marked:
Teapot, creamer, sugar bowl and tray: EWW, WIENER WERK STÄTTE (3 lines), rose mark, Austrian hallmark Diana's head (A for Vienna, 2 for 900/1000), 900
Sugar tongs: WW, Austrian hallmark Diana's head (A for Vienna, 2 for 900/1000), 900
Rum flacon: EWW, WW, rose mark, Austrian hallmark Diana's head (A for Vienna, 2 for 900/1000), 900
Dimensions: 15 cm (5⁷/₈ inches)
Provenance: private collection, USA
Literature: A contemporary photograph is preserved in the Wiener Werkstätte archives, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, model nos. S 2462, S 2478, S 2484, S 2486, S 2487, S 2485; photo volume WWF 95-157-2 and design drawings are preserved in the Wiener Werkstätte archives, design drawings inv. no. KI 13261-1, KI 13261-2, KI 13214-16, KI 13261-3
Exhibitions: The same set without rum flacon is part of the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, inv. no. WI 1115/1912, and was shown in 2003 at the exhibition "Yearning for Beauty, 100 years Wiener Werkstätte".
Categories: Decorative Arts & Design, Silver
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