A CARVED MAHOGANY AND MAPLE MANTLE CLOCK

Details

Joseph Maria Olbrich, circa 1899
A CARVED MAHOGANY AND MAPLE MANTLE CLOCK
Brass hands
50 cm. high

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Lot Essay

Originally designed for the apartment of Dr. Friedrich Spitzer, Vienna.
See for comparison:
Alistair Duncan, Modernism: Modernist Design, 1880-1940, Woodbridge, 1998, p. 110 for the model in the Norwest Collection, MN.
Exhibition catalogue, Joseph M. Olbrich 1867-1908, Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, 1983, p. 326, cat. no. 369

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