JOSEF HOFFMANN (1870-1956)

Lot 424
09.12.2022 11:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 70 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 881776
Lot 424 | JOSEF HOFFMANN (1870-1956)
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 90 000
JOSEF HOFFMANN (1870-1956)

'Rundes Modell' Flatware Service, circa 1906-12 and 1935-30

executed by Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna

silver, silver-plated alpaca, stainless steel blades

comprising 206 pieces:

fifteen dinner forks

ten luncheon forks

fifteen salad forks

ten fruit forks

twelve fish forks

four cake forks

nine dessert forks

fourteen dinner knives

thirteen luncheon knives

ten fruit knives

twelve fish knives

four dessert knives

eighteen butter knives

one crab knife

two spreaders

fourteen soup spoons

three ice cream spoons

four tea spoons

two sugar spoons

ten demi tasse spoon

twelve mocha spoons

nine marmalade

one serving spoons

one soup ladle

one punch ladle

8,661.9 grams (approximate weighable silver)





Provenance

Christie's, New York, 24 May 1984, lots 272, 273, 274, 275

Herbert Asenbaum, Vienna

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1984



Literature

W. Neuwirth, Josef Hoffmann: Bestecke für die Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, 1982, pp. 73-127

W. Neuwirth, Wiener Werkstätte: Avantgarde, Art Deco, Industrial Design, exh. cat. Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, 1984, pp. 79, 216-217

Traum und Wirklich keit Wien 1870-1930, exh. cat., Künstlerhaus, Vienna, 1985, p. 361

H. Cantz, Viennese Silver: Modern Design 1780-1918, exh. cat. Neue Galerie, New York, 2003, p. 143



Post lot text

Archives of Wiener Werkstätte, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, design drawing inv. no. KI 12086-50
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