Cross-Currents in America: The Wolf Family Collection

Cross-Currents in America: The Wolf Family Collection

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Josef Hoffmann

Vase

Auction Closed

April 21, 06:04 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Josef Hoffmann

Vase


Executed circa 1920.

produced by the Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, Austria

hand-wrought silvered brass

monogrammed JH and impressed WIENER/WERK/STÄTTE/MADE/IN/AUSTRIA

11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm.) high

6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm.) diameter

Historical Design, New York
Wolf Family Collection No. 1196 (acquired from the above, February 21, 2003)
Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, 65, October 1929-March 1930 (for a period photograph of the model)
Werner J. Schweiger, Wiener Werkstätte Design in Vienna 1903-1932, New York, 1984, p. 62 (for a related example)
Peter Noever, ed., Josef Hoffmann Designs, Munich, 1992, p. 174 (for a related example)
Gabriele Fahr-Becker, Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932, Cologne, 1994, p. 164