JOSEF HOFFMANN (1870-1956)

Lot 55
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ID 976498
Lot 55 | JOSEF HOFFMANN (1870-1956)
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$ 8 000 – 12 000
JOSEF HOFFMANN (1870-1956)

'Rundes Modell' Flatware Service, designed circa 1906, executed 1907-1909, for Magda Mautner von Markhof, Vienna

executed by Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna

silver-plated alpaca

comprising 23 pieces:

9 dinner forks

1 dinner knife

2 lunch forks

1 fish fork

3 dinner or serving spoons

7 lunch spoons

each piece monogrammed MM and some with additional hallmarks including WW, JH, JF, and the rose trademark





Provenance

Magda Mautner von Markhof, Vienna

Thence by descent

Herbert Asenbaum, Vienna

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982



Literature

Moderne Vergangenheit: Wien 1800-1900, exh. cat., Knstlerhaus Vienna, 1981, p. 316

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 (for a related example)
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