AFTERNOON SESSION 2:00 p.m. (Lots 171-307)
A SILVERED METAL CENTERPIECE BOWL

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A SILVERED METAL CENTERPIECE BOWL
BY JOSEF HOFFMANN FOR THE WIENER WERKSTATTE

The fluted, hammered bowl supported on fluted, hammered flared foot, decorated with elaborately scrolled applied handles, stamped WIENER WERKSTATTE MADE IN AUSTRIA with the artist's monogram--7¼in. (18.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

cf. Peter Noeuvo, ed. Josef Hoffmann Designs, Mak-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Prestel-Verlag, Germany, 1992, p. 172, ill. 268 for similar example in brass; R. Craig Miller, Modern Design in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1890-1990, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1990, pp. 88-89 for similar example; Werner J. Schweiger, Wiener Werkstätte: Design in Vienna 1903-1932, Abbeville Press, New York, 1984, p. 70 for similar example