Physical Qualities
Silver-plated copper alloy, 7 1/2 x 7 diam x 11 3/4 in. (19.1 x 17.8 x 29.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Alberta and Henry G. Burke, Gift of Alvin R.L. Dohme in Memory of his Parents, Dr. and Mrs. Alfred R.L. Dohme, Gift of Leslie and Tom L. Freudenheim, Nelson and Juanita Greif Gutman Collection, Gift of Joseph A. Holtzman, Gift of Michael and Anis Merson, Gift in Honor of Emma Cecilia Smith, Gift of Katherine Baden Stewart, and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Strauss; and Middendorf Foundation Fund
Object Number
2009.196
Josef Hoffmann was a leader of the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop), a community of artists dedicated to creating affordable objects. Reacting against art academies which called for copies of historical works, Hoffmann and his workshop adapted motifs from the past into objects for the present. Among his best known designs are a group of metal objects, like this one, based on ornamental forms, such as fluted columns, found in ancient Greece and Persia.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2009; James P. Infante, NY
Des Arts Decoratifs Exposition, Paris, 1925
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.
Markings: JH monogram/WIENER WERSTATTE/MADE IN AUSTRIA
On View at the BMA
