Egg Spoon from Flatware Set (Primary Title)
Place Setting (Alternate Title)
Dessert Knife, Fish Knife, Fish Fork, Dessert Fork, Coffee Spoon, Egg Spoon (Former Title)
Josef Hoffmann, Austrian, 1870 - 1956 (Designer)
Wiener Werkstätte, Austrian (Vienna), 1903 - 1932 (Manufacturer)
Marked: "WW; rose mark; 1904; JH"
Gift of the Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation
A similar piece was displayed at the Exhibition "Der gedeckte Tisch" (The Laid Table) of the Wiener Werkstätte (Neustiftgasse branch), Vienna, 1906 (one year earlier, in 1905, there was an exhibit "Der gedeckte Tisch" (The Laid Table) with work from the Wiener Werkstatte staged at the Mahrisches Gewerbemuseum (Moravian Craft Museum) in Brno);
©artist or artist’s estate
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