Teapot with lid, part of Tea Service (Primary Title)
Koloman Moser, Austrian, 1868 - 1918 (designer of forms) (Designer)
Jutta Sika, Austrian, 1877 - 1964 (designer of decoration) (Designer)
Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur Josef Böck, Austrian, founded 1829 (Manufacturer)
Around 1900, the Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur Josef Böck began its collaboration with students working with Koloman Moser at the Vienna School of Applied Arts. The designs created by his students were executed at the school or in German and Austrian manufactories. One of the most talented of these young designers was Jutta Sika. An identical example of this tea service was displayed at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Arts in Turn, Italy, in 1902.
Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser cofounded the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), a designers’ cooperative active from 1903 to 1932. Using the principles of the British Arts and Crafts Movement, the Wiener Werkstätte provided well-designed, often handmade objects for a sophisticated and wealthy clientele. The workshops had departments for metalworking, bookbinding, leatherwork, cabinetmaking, glass, and ceramics, as well as an architectural office. A few years later, departments for printing, fashion, and textiles were added.
For a similar service, see Bel Etage, Vienna, March 2009;
For a similar service, see at Leopold Museum, Vienna (inv. 4229);
For a similar service, see Gabriele Fahr-Becker, Wiener Werkstatte 1903-1932, Taschen, Cologne, 1994, p. 137;
For a similar service, in an advertisement of Jos. Bock, see Derek Ostergard, ed., Bent Wood and Metal furniture: 1850-1946, University of Washington Press and American Federation of Arts, 1987, p. 103;
For a similar service, sold Christie's, Geneva, Nov. 11, 1990, lot 26;
For a similar service, see Koloman Moser 1868-1918, Osterreichisches Musseum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 1979, p. 102, cat. no. 82A-B;
For a similar service, see Jane Kallir, Viennese Design and the Wiener Werkstatte, Galerie St. Etienne/George Braziller, NY, p. 79;
For a similar service, sold Phillips, London, Dec. 5, 1991, lot. 273;
For a similar service, see Rossana Bossaglia, ed., Torino 1902. Le Arti Decorative Internazionali del Nuovo Secolo, Fabbri Editori, 1991, pp. 211-212, no. 147;
For a similar service see Kunst und Kunsthandwerk, 1902, p. 407;
For a similar service see W. Neuwirth, Osterreiche Keramik des Jugendstils, Munich, 1974, p. 266, cat. no. 154;
For a similar service, see Das Interieur, 1902, p. 103, ill.;
For a similar service, see Traum und Wirklich keit Wien 1870-1930, 1985, p. 377, no. 13/5/13;
For a similar service, see Wendy Kaplan, The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe & America: Design for the Modern World, Thames & London, 2004, pp. 123, 305, cat. no. 4.15;
For a similar service, see Jill Lloyd and Christian Witt Dorring, eds., Birth of the Modern: Style and Identity in Vienna 1900, Neue Galerie, NY, 2011, pp. 106, 278, no. 29;
For a similar service see Brigitte Reuter, Die Jugenstil Sammlung, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 2010, p. 101, no. 1972;
For a similar service see Vienna Art & Design, National Gallery of Victoria, 2011, p. 118;
For a similar service, see Goddesses of Art Nouveau, Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, 2021,
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