Lidded Box

Josef Hoffmann

1870 Pirnitz, Moravia 1870 - 1956 1956 Vienna

Lidded Box

Manufactured by the Wiener Werkstätte, model number S ga 2-3 (box)

Silver

H 7.5 cm, W 10 cm (box)

Marks: WIENER/ WERK/ STÄTTE, monogram JH, 900, head of a hoopoe

The lidded box was manufactured only twice in 1923 and 1924.
The box is part of a toilet set that was completed in 1926.

Literatur:

cf. WW Archive, MAK Vienna, Photo Archive WWF 115-1-4
cf. A. Koch, Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, vol. XLI, 1917-1918, p. 144 (similar vase)