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EDUARD JOSEF WIMMER-WISGRILL FOR WIENER WERKSTÄTTE A Viennese Five-Piece Silver and Ivory Tea and Lemon Service, circa 1912
17 June 2015, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £17,500 inc. premium
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EDUARD JOSEF WIMMER-WISGRILL FOR WIENER WERKSTÄTTE
A Viennese Five-Piece Silver and Ivory Tea and Lemon Service, circa 1912
comprising; a tray, with a teapot, a sugar caddy, a cream jug, and a lemon cup with tongs, each of waisted octagonal form with gentle spot planished surface, the teapot with hinged lid and ivory globular finial, with sweeping straight spout, and angular and part scroll ivory handle, body raised on spreading octagonal base foot, the tray of oval octagonal form with similar spot planished surface
height of teapot - 15 cm, stamped with maker's mark for Wimmer-Wisgrill, the rose monogram and the Wiener Werkstätte monogram mark, incuse stamped WIENER WEKSTÄTTE and 900, also stamped with Austrian assay mark for Vienna pre-1922 (5)
comprising; a tray, with a teapot, a sugar caddy, a cream jug, and a lemon cup with tongs, each of waisted octagonal form with gentle spot planished surface, the teapot with hinged lid and ivory globular finial, with sweeping straight spout, and angular and part scroll ivory handle, body raised on spreading octagonal base foot, the tray of oval octagonal form with similar spot planished surface
height of teapot - 15 cm, stamped with maker's mark for Wimmer-Wisgrill, the rose monogram and the Wiener Werkstätte monogram mark, incuse stamped WIENER WEKSTÄTTE and 900, also stamped with Austrian assay mark for Vienna pre-1922 (5)
Footnotes
A similar piece is represented in Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst (The Museum of Applied Arts) in Vienna, museum no W.I. 115.
A similar piece is illustrated in Silver of a New Era: International High-lights of Precious Metalware from 1880 to 1940, Musuem Boymans van-Beuningen, Rotterdam 23.2.92-26.4.92 and Museum voor Sierkunst, Ghent 26.5.92-27.7.92, p. 199, pl 182.



