Description & Technical information

JOSEF HOFFMANN
WIENER WERKSTÄTTE

CENTREPIECE

designed by: Josef Hoffmann, 1920
executed by: Wiener Werkstätte, 1924, model no. S 4949 (as box)

Date:  1920
Period:  20th century
Origin:  Vienna
Medium: Silver, chased and hammered
Signature: Marked: JH, WW, WIENER WERK STÄTTE (3 lines), Austrian hallmark head of hoopoe, 900

Dimensions: 9.5 x 17 cm (3³/₄ x 6³/₄ inches)
Literature: a contemporary photograph is preserved in the Wiener Werkstätte archives at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, inv. no. WWF 116-24-7
Categories: Decorative Arts & Design, Silver