• Lidded Box
  • Lidded Box
  • Lidded Box
  • Lidded Box
  • Lidded Box

Josef Hoffmann

1870 Pirnitz, Moravia 1870 - 1956 1956 Vienna

Lidded Box

Manufactured by the Wiener Werkstätte, model number S-1453

Silver, embossed

H 5.5 cm, L 12.1 cm, W 12.1 cm

Marks: rose signet, monogram JH, WW, head of Diana, silversmith´s monogram AM (Alfred Mayer)

According to the model book 11 for Silver (WWMB 11-S), the box was produced three times in 1909.

Literatur:

cf. WW-Archive, MAK Vienna, Photo Archive WWF 94-99-4 as well as model book WWMB 11-S
cf. Exhibition catalogue "Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932 The Luxury of Beauty", ed. by Christian Witt-Dörring and Janis Staggs, Neue Galerie, New York 2017, ill. p. 147