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Josef Hoffmann
(Pirnitz 1870 - 1956 Vienna)
„Crocodile leather table clock“
Wiener Werkstätte, 1905
crocodile leather, gilded brass dial, glass, brass movement; suede leather on the inside and on the bottom; marked on the bottom in gold embossing with "WIENER/WERK/STÄTTE", rose mark and maker's mark "FH" for master leather worker Ferdinand Heider
20.2 x 11 x 9 cm
Literature
Wiener Werkstätte-archive, MAK Vienna: model no. BL 254; inv.-no. KI 12161-20 (design); inv.-no. WWF 99-41-2 (contemporary photograph); inv.-no. WWF 101-44-1 (contemporary photograph);
Christian Witt-Dörring (ed.), Wiener Werkstätte. 1903-1932. The luxury of beauty (exhibition catalogue, Neue Galerie, New York 2017/2018), Munich/London/New York 2017, p. 130, ill. (design);
Peter Noever (ed.), Der Preis der Schönheit. 100 Jahre Wiener Werkstätte (exhibition catalogue, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna 2003/2004), Ostfildern-Ruit 2003, p. 131, ill. (furnishings in the parlour of the Hermann Wittgenstein flat, Vienna)
CITES certificate and assessment of the herpetological collection of the Natural History Museum (Vienna) enclosed.
Estimate: € 40.000 - 80.000
Realized price: € 101.120 (incl. fees and Austrian VAT)
Hammer Price: € 79.000
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