A Wiener Werkstätte white painted Table, from the Berlin apartment of Dr. Jerome and Margaret Stoneborough, the design attributed to Koloman Moser, of simple construction with single drawer at each end and flat rectangular legs, the drawer with square white metal lock plate with inner circle, the lock mechanism on each drawer stamped twice with the Wiener Werkstätte Rosenmarke, c.1904

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A Wiener Werkstätte white painted Table, from the Berlin apartment of Dr. Jerome and Margaret Stoneborough, the design attributed to Koloman Moser, of simple construction with single drawer at each end and flat rectangular legs, the drawer with square white metal lock plate with inner circle, the lock mechanism on each drawer stamped twice with the Wiener Werkstätte Rosenmarke, c.1904
75.5cm. high; 80cm. wide; 60cm. deep

Provenance

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

Literature

Lot Essay

A very closely comparable table, with square-sectioned legs, deisgned by Moser, is illustrated in what is believed to be the bedroom of the Stonborough-Wittgenstein's Berlin Apartment in: ,Art Revival in Austria, ,Special Number of The Studio, 1906, pl. c34, (reproduced with lot 79).
At this early date, when Hoffmann and Moser were working together in an extraordinary burst of creativity, their designs for furniture can often be hard to differentiate. The attribution to Moser has been suggested on stylistic grounds, although closely comparable designs were produced by both Moser and Hoffmann at this time, especially for the Purkersdorf Sanitorium in 1904.
See: Gunter Breckner. Josef Hoffmann. Sanitorium Purkerdorf, collation of contemporary documentation, Galerie Metropol,,n.d, pls. 50, 51, 117,121, for comparable furniture examples by Hoffmann and Moser

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