Design
Design
Property from The Stuart Cary Welch Collection
Josef Hoffmann
Fork and Knife
Lot Closed
October 19, 05:37 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from The Stuart Cary Welch Collection
Josef Hoffmann
Fork and Knife
circa 1903
fork: model no. S24
knife: model no. S23
produced by the Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, Austria
silver
each stamped with the producer's and silver hallmarks
fork: 7 in. (17.7 cm) long
knife: 7 1/2 in. (19 cm) long
Hertha Jaeger
Magda Mautner von Markhof
Galerie Yves Macaux, Ixelles
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2006
Waltraud Neuwirth, Josef Hoffmann: Bestecke für die Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, 1982, p. 30
Gabriele Fahr-Becker, Wiener Werkstätte, Cologne, 2015, p. 28 (for the knife)
Christian Witt-Dörring and Janis Staggs, Wiener Werkstätte, 1903-1932: The Luxury of Beauty, New York, 2017, pp. 58-59 and 112
This lot represents the first cutlery ever executed by the Wiener Werkstätte for Hertha Jaeger around 1903.