Josef Hoffmann / Wiener Werkstaette Fluted serving tray c. 1928
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Josef Hoffmann / Wiener Werkstaette Fluted serving tray c. 1928
JOSEF HOFFMANN (1870-1956) Austria
WIENER WERKSTÄTTE (1903-1932) Vienna
Fluted serving tray c. 1928
Handwrought silver plated brass, gilt interior, hand hammered swirled fluting, scalloped edge
Marks: MADE IN AUSTRIA (in a square), JH monogram, WIENER WERK STÄTTE (in a square)
Model illustrated: Josef Hoffmann: Ornament zwischen Hoffnung und Verbrechen (Wien: Herausgeber, 1987) p. 185.
Related models illustrated: Wiener Werkstätte Design in Vienna 1903-1932, Werner J. Schweiger (New York,1984) pp. 62,66; Josef Hoffmann Designs, ed. Peter Noever, MAK and Prestel-Verlag: Munich, 1992) pp. 172, 174, 189.
Münchner Werkstätten / Art Deco Large Glazed Pottery Vase c. 1928
MÜNCHNER WERKSTÄTTEN Germany
Vase c. 1928
Blue and white modeled glazed earthenware with orange red outlines
Marks: “M” over “W” mark, Germany
Provenance: Mr. Ernest L. King (Watkins) “Rockledge” Commission, Winona, MN c.1930’s Phillip Brooks Maher (interior architect), descended in the King Family to Bud (E. L. King Jr.) and Betty King, Winona, MN, Hollander Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, Private Collection, New York, NY
H: 9 ¾” x W: 8 ¼” x D: 8 ¼”
Price: $5,450
ROCKLEDGE, the summer home of Ernest and Grace King (the Watkins Family Company fortune was made from door-to-door sales of health potions and hygiene related products) was built and designed in its entirety from the expansive main home building with all of the furnishings to the custom silver service all the way down to the hand woven carpets and lace curtain designs, is arguably the most famous American Arts and Crafts commissioned home in America and was built and meticulously designed by George Washington Maher. It was finished in 1912, and was used by the Kings for the month of August only for a couple of decades before the interior was completely redone in the fashionable Art Deco design of the 1930’s. George Washington Maher’s son Phillip Brooks Maher, was hired for the project and went shopping for the best of the design of the period in both New York and Paris. He assembled a legendary collection of Art Deco design that comprised many important examples of both American and European Art Deco including the famous Donald Deskey square form telescope table, a Gilbert Rohde “Z” clock, a pair of Mies van der Rohe red lacquer and wicker armchairs, DIM furniture and rugs from Paris and rare Paolo Venini floor lamps and sculptural glass pieces among many other major 20th Century design works. This rare vase was indicative of the avant-garde furnishings throughout the King Home as well as the exquisite quality and attention to the detail of every single object that the Kings surrounded themselves with and became accustomed to enjoying and living with whether they were at their Daytona Beach resort, their lakeside property at Lake Tahoe or their plantation in Hawaii!
ARCHIBALD KNOX (1864-1933) UK
LIBERTY & CO. London
Tray c. 1902-05
Pewter with abstract Celtic floral design in bas-relief
Marks: Tudric, 0161, 6
For more information see: Archibald Knox, ed. by Stephen A. Martin (London: Academy Editions, 1995) ; Liberty Design 1874-1914, Barbara Morris (London: Pyramid Books, 1989); The Designs of Archibald Knox for Liberty & Co., A.J. Tilbrook (London: Ornament Press Ltd., 1976)
Christian Neureuther, Wächtersbacher Steingut Cake Tray, c. 1906
CHRISTIAN NEUREUTHER (1869-1921) Germany
WÄCHTERSBACHER STEINGUTFABRIK Germany
Cake tray c. 1906
Blue, gold and green glazed earthenware, silvered copper openwork mount
Marks: KAW CN mark, 911
For a related cake tray and information on Wächtersbach and Neureuther see: Wächtersbacher Steingut, Heinz and Lilo Frensch (Königstein im Taunus, Germany: Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, 1978), pp. 38-78, 137.
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