Key facts

Product:
TEA AND COFFEE SET
Manufacturer:
Sotheby´s
Architonic ID:
4107467
Country:
United Kingdom
Category:
Living room accessories

Product description

Comprising teapot, coffee pot, creamer, and covered sugar bowl, with two-handled tray
Each piece marked on base with Hoffmann monogram, WW, WIENER WERK STÄTTE, rose mark, 900 (fineness), and official standard mark
Silver, ivory
Coffee pot 9 in. (22.8 cm) high tray over handles 26 3/4 in. (68 cm) long 178 oz 10 dwt (5561 g) gross
A six-piece set of this model, without tray and dated 1918-20, is in the collection of the Osterreichische Museum für angewandte Kunst (illustrated first reference above, p. 131, M41). Two Hoffmann designs for a covered creamer and a coffee pot of this form are dated 1923, illustrated ibid, p. 254, Z141 and Z143.

Literature and References:
Josef Hoffmann, 1870-1956: Ornament zwischen Hoffnung und Verlorechen, Vienna, 1987, p. 131
Josef Hoffmann: Variationen, exh. cat., Vienna, 1987, p. 64
Peter Noever, Josef Hoffmann Designs, Vienna, 1992, pp. 97 and 169
The Wiener Werkstätte, 1903-1918: Modern Decorative Art and Its Path, Vienna, 1929, reprinted Munich, 1994
Gabriele Fahr-Becker, Wiener Werkstätte: 1903-32, Cologne, 2003, p. 171