Sale 5686
London
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31 October 1996
Price realised
GBP 1,840
Estimate
A printed silk dress Textile designed by Max Snischek 1926, produced by the Wiener Werkstätte, circa 1926 'Enos' pattern, square neck with short frill, patch pockets with frilled edges, the back edge with frilled panel, geometric design with stars and stripes and intersecting rectangles in beige, pink and pale blue on black Selvedge printed Wiener Werkstätte
Provenance
Otto and Mäda Primavesi, thence by descent. See footnote to lot 69.
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See: Angela Völker, Textiles of the Wiener Werkstätte 1910 - 1932, London, 1994, p. 198, pl. 378, this design in another colourway illustrated.
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