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DAGOBERT PECHE (1887-1923)
An important coffee service and tray, designed 1920
executed by the Wiener Werkstätte, comprising a coffee pot, model no. S 5073, a milk jug, model no. S 5074, a sugar box, model no. S 5075, and a service tray, white metal with martelé surface, ivory handles
coffee pot 12 ½ in. high (32.5 cm.)
milk jug 4 ¼ in. high (10.7 cm.)
sugar bowl 5 1/8 in. high (13 cm.)
service tray 20 1/8 in. diameter (51 cm.)
coffee pot stamped Wiener Werkstätte, Made in Austria, P, 900
sugar bowl stamped Wiener Werkstätte, Made in Austria, P
milk jug stamped Wiener Werkstätte, Made in Austria, P, WW, 900
tray stamped Wiener Werkstätte, Made in Austria, P, 900
Literature
M, Eisler (ed.), Dagobert Peche 1887-1923), Vienna, 1925 (reprinted 1992), pl. 27, another tea and coffee service illustrated, featuring diagonally-ribbed tray design;
P. Noever, Dagobert Peche und die Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, 1998, p. 213, pl. 31;
Die Wiener Werkstätte Modernes kunsthandwerk von 1903 -1932, exh. cat., MAK, Vienna, 1967, pl. 21;
Der Preis der Schönheit. Zum 100. Geburtstag der Wiener Werkstätte, exh.cat., MAK, Vienna, 2003, p. 338, coffee service illustrated, featuring twin-handled sugar bowl and diagonally-ribbed tray design.
Special notice
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Sale room notice
The catalogue should read another variant example was exhibited at the MAK, Vienna, 10 December 2003 - 7 March 2004, cat. no. M292 and not this lot.
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