A SILVER AND VERMEIL CENTERPIECE

ARTHUR BERGER, FOR THE WIENER WERKSTÄTTE, CIRCA 1918

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A SILVER AND VERMEIL CENTERPIECE
Arthur Berger, for the Wiener Werkstätte, circa 1918
the top half of each foot with a different repoussé floral motif
3 3/8in. (8.6cm.) high, 10¼in. (26cm.) wide, 7 3/8in. (18.7cm.) deep
stamped with Rosenmark, Wiener Werkstätte monogram, Viennese silver mark, 900, VIENNA WORKSHOPS, WIENER WERKSTÄTTE, MADE IN AUSTRIA
13oz. (404 gr.)

Provenance

Philippe Denys, Brussels, Belgium

Lot Essay

cf. Darmstadt Hofrat Alexander Koch, Deutsche Kunst und Decoration XIII, October-November 1918, p. 385 for an illustration of the model designed by Arthur Berger, a pupil of Josef Hoffmann at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna and a designer of silver for the Wiener Werkstãtte.

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