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JOSEF HOFFMANN VIENNA HAMMERED STERLING SILVER BOWL WWK
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are pleased to offer here, from an outstanding private collection, an ultra rare and gorgeous antique ca.1925 Art Deco hand-hammered silver footed bowl with lid.
Designed by Josef Hoffmann in Vienna and manufactured by Josef Husnik, member of Wiener Werkstatte Guild.
Silver markings: on lid and on bottom: .800; W, a Toucan head, 4; (Austrian mark used after 1922; letter on left indicates city, W= Vienna.
Silver purity marked on right 4 = .800 silver purity) and designer's monogram J x H.
Also on lid's knob: W, a Toucan head, 4;
Weight: 330 grams.
Measures: 6" x 4 3/4" (at top) x 5 1/2" high; 4" x 3 1/4" foot.
Josef HOFFMANN (1870-1956) Wiener Werkstatte.
Josef Husnik worked c.
1903 - 1932 with Wiener Werkstatte Designers.
Austrian architect, interior designer and applied artistJosef Hoffmann studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria, under Art Nouveau architect Otto Wagner, whose theories of functional, modern architecture profoundly influenced his works, and in 1896 he joined his office.
In 1898, he established his own practice in Vienna.
In 1897, inspired by Mackintosh and the Glasgow School, he was one of the founding members with Gustav Klimt, of an association of revolutionary artists and architects, the Vienna Secession.
In 1903, he founded with architects Koloman Moser and Joseph Maria Olbrich, the Wiener Werkstatte for decorative arts.
They aspired to the renaissance of the arts and crafts and to bring more abstract and purer forms to the designs of buildings and furniture, glass and metalwork, following the concept of total work of art.
Hoffman's works combined functionality and simplicity of craft production with refined and innovative ornamental details and geometric elements.
He is an important precursor of the Modern Movement and Art Deco.
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