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Vase

Vase

Koloman Moser

"As a professor at the Vienna Applied Arts School, Moser began around 1900 to design porcelain coffee and tea services with his students, including Jutta Sika and Therese Trethahn. Moser and Sika collaborated on this silver and glass vase, which draws on the clean, reductive shapes of their tea and coffee vessels, particularly in the use of flat, triangular handles pierces by a circle. The body has an ornamental pattern of blue circles framed between verical lines on a contrasting white background. This decorative motif appeared as early as 1900 in other vases by Moser that similarly incorporate his taste for simple, geometric shapes." (Skrypzak, Design Vienna 1890s to 1930s, no. 35)
Artist
Koloman Moser
(Austrian, 1868 - 1918)
Title
Vase
Date
ca. 1905
Medium
Glass and silver-plated brass mounts
Dimensions
9 1/4 H x 4 1/8 diam. in. overall
Credit
Gift of Barbara Mackey Kaerwer
Accession No.
2012.32.19
Classification
Glass
Geography
Austria

Related

December 1999, sold by Historical Design, Inc. (New York, NY) to Barbara Mackey Kaerwer (Eden Prairie, MN); 8 November 2012, gifted to Chazen Museum of Art

  • Skrypzak, Joann. "Design Vienna 1890s to 1930s," Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2003. p. 66, no. 35

  • Design, Vienna 1890s-1930s: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/26/2003–6/29/2003

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