Important Presentation Clock for Margarete Stonborough-Wittgenstein and Dr. Jerome Stonborough, 1905

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KOLOMAN MOSER (1868-1918)
Important Presentation Clock for Margarete Stonborough-Wittgenstein and Dr. Jerome Stonborough, 1905
executed by the Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna
ebonized wood, silver, mother-of-pearl
20 5/8 x 15 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. (51.6 x 39.4 x 36.2 cm)
marked MW JS 7 JANVAR 1905

Provenance

Margarete Stonborough-Wittgenstein and Dr. Jerome Stonborough, Berlin, 1905
Oskar Schmidt, Vienna
Wiener Kunst, 20 April 1994, lot 340
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

C. Witt-Dorring, Josef Hoffmann Interiors 1902-1913, exh cat., Neue Galerie, New York, 2006, pp. 186-187 (for a discussion of the commission)
C. Witt-Dorring, Koloman Moser Designing Modern Vienna, 1897-1907, New York, 2013, pp. 176-177, 378

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Victoria Allerton Tudor Vice President, Head of Department

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Descriptif du lot

An archival photograph of the present lot is registered in the Wiener Werkstätte Archiva, MAK (Museum für angewandte Kunst), Vienna, under inventory number WWF 99-30-5.

This clock was commissioned as a wedding gift for Margarete Wittgenstein and Jerome Stonborough, married January 7, 1905.

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