Description & Technical information

JOSEF HOFFMANN
WIENER WERKSTÄTTE

VASE

designed by: Josef Hoffmann, 1920
executed by: Wiener Werkstätte, 1923, model no. Sva13 (between 1923 and 1929 15 pieces were produced)

Date:  1920
Period:  20th century
Origin:  Vienna
Medium: silver, chased and hammered, polished
Signature: Marked: JH, WIENER WERK STÄTTE (3 lines), Austrian hallmark head of hoopoe (W for Vienna, 2 for 900/1000), 900

Dimensions: 19 cm (7¹/₂ inches)
Literature: a contemporary photograph is preserved in the Wiener Werkstätte archives at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, inv. no. WWF 114-10-1, mod. no. M 3067
Categories: Decorative Arts & Design, Silver