A Hammered copper Wall Mirror

DESIGNED BY JOSEF HOFFMANN FOR THE BERLIN APARTMENT OF DR. JEROME STONBOROUGH, MANUFACTURED BY THE WIENER WERKSTATTE, CIRCA 1904

Details

A Hammered copper Wall Mirror
Designed by Josef Hoffmann for the Berlin apartment of Dr. Jerome Stonborough, manufactured by the Wiener Werkstatte, circa 1904
Eight-sided, with scalloped border, above box with separate cover and slit below (for paper)
18 7/8in. (48cm.) high
Stamped designer's monogram, WW mark and registration mark, monogram FG for Franz Guggenbichler as metalworker

Provenance

Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, thence by descent until the late 1980s

Lot Essay

The present mirror formed part of the fittings in the cloakroom of the Berlin apartment of Dr. Jerome and Margaret Stonborough.
For further details of the Stonborough-Wittgenstein commission, see Christie's London, 5 May 1995, lot 76 et seq

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