Creamer

Designer Josef Hoffmann (Austrian, 1870 - 1956)

Manufacturer Wiener Werkstätte (Austrian, 1903 - 1932)

Dateca. 1923

MediumRhodium-plated sterling silver with gilt interior and ivory

DimensionsOverall: 3 1/4 × 7 1/2 × 4 3/4 inches (8.26 × 19.05 × 12.07 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: the Charlotte and Perry Faeth Fund

Object number2003.13.3

MarkingsJH monogram JH monogram | WW monogram WW monogram

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

Architecture, Design and Decorative Arts

Terms

DescriptionPart of five piece tea set with teapot, creamer, covered sugar bowl, sugar tongs and matching tray in rhodium-plated sterling silver with ivory finials and handles. The pieces have been hand-hammered to create lobed forms. The ivory handles are delineated with silver mounts with small balls. The interior of the creamer is gilded.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Model shown at the Exposition International des Arts Dècoratifs et Industries Modernes, Paris, 1925, no cat.

Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs 1851-1939. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO April 14– August 19, 2012; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, October 13, 2012– February 24, 2013, New Orleans Museum of Art, April 12– August 4, 2013; Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, September 9, 3013– January 19, 2014, cat. no. 151.

Gallery Label

This tea service is made from tarnish-resistant, rhodium-plated silver and ivory. The lobed forms and pumpkin-like ivory finials reflect the interest of Austrian architect and designer Josef Hoffmann in organic and natural shapes. Hoffmann founded the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops) in 1903. Producing impeccably crafted, everyday objects made from fine materials, the workshops embodied Hoffmann’s design ideals.

Provenance

With Historical Design, New York, by 2003;

Purchased from Historical Design, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2003.

Published References

Drawings illustrated, Peter Noever and Hanna Egger. Josef Hoffmann Designs (Munich: Prestel, 1992), 97, 133-134 (repro.).

Newsletter (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) (May-June 2004): 1-2 (repro.).

Spaces Magazine, (October/November 2005): 66 (repro.).

Catherine Futter, Jason T. Busch, et al. Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939 (Pittsburgh, PA: Kansas City, MO: New York: Carnegie Museum of Art; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Skira Rizzoli, 2012), 227-229 (repro.).

Reynolds, Brandon R., “ART MATTERS: The Vases Are Talking,” 435 South, The Magazine of South Johnson County, vol. 7, no. 10 (May 2012):66-69, 68 (repro.).

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