1870 Pirnitz, Moravia 1870 - 1956 1956 Vienna
Four-Piece Coffee Set
Manufactured by the Wiener Werkstätte, model number S 3954 (coffee pot), S 3955 (milk/ cream jug), S 3956 (sugar bowl), S 3958 (tray)
Silver, chased and hammered, ivory, ebony, polished black, sugar bowl gold-plated inside
H 17.4 cm (coffee pot), H 17.6 cm (milk/cream jug ), H 11.8 cm (sugar bowl), 35 x 39.2 cm (tray)
Marks: monogram JH, WIENER/ WERK/ STÄTTE, 900, head of a hoopoe resp. head of Diana, WW
According to the MAK:
Tray: manufactured 3× (1923, 1925, 1926)
Coffee pot: manufactured 2× (1925, 1926)
Cream jug: manufactured 2× (1923, 1926)
Sugar bowl: manufactured 3× (1923, 1925, 1926)
Ausstellungen:
The coffee-set is presented until 19 June 2022 in the exhibition ‘Josef Hoffmann: Progress Through Beauty’ at the MAK, Vienna.
Literatur:
cf. WW Archive, MAK Vienna, Photo Archive WWF 96-188-1, model book WW MB 19, model numbers S 3954-56 and S 3958
cf. Dekorative Kunst, vol. XXIV, 11 August 1921, ill. p. 241 (tea set)
Exhibition catalogue "Josef Hoffmann 1870-1956. Progress Through Beauty. The Guide to His Oeuvre", ed. by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Matthias Boeckl, Rainald Franz and Christian Witt-Dörring, MAK, Vienna 2021/22, ill. p. 186, no. 1