Bread Basket

Josef Hoffmann

1870 Pirnitz, Moravia 1870 - 1956 1956 Vienna

Bread Basket

Manufactured by the Wiener Werkstätte, model number S 2315

Silver, latticed, punched décor (“flower pattern”)

H 17.8 cm, W 12.6 cm, D 17.8 cm

Marks: WIENER/ WERK/ STÄTTE, monogram JH, rose signet, WW, head of Diana, silversmith’s monogram AB

According to the MAK, three pieces of this model were manufactured in 1911.

Literatur:

cf. WW Archive, MAK Vienna, design sketch KI 12033-22 (ivy), calculation book WWMB 14-S-2315, Photo Archive WWF 95-138-5
cf. “The Studio” Year-Book of Decorative Art, London 1912, ill. p. 220