Silversmith Eduard Friedmann executed designs of several prominent Viennese artists and was influenced by the objects being produced by the Wiener Werkstatte. This serving tray is reminiscent of the designs by Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann. Friedmann's work and that of the Wiener Werkstatte is illustrated and discussed in Annelies Krekel-Aalberse, Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver, 1989, illus. 194 and 196, pp. 200 and 209.