A SILVER EIGHT-PIECE COFFEE SERVICE AND TRAY

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A SILVER EIGHT-PIECE COFFEE SERVICE AND TRAY
VIENNA, BEFORE 1920, ALL PIECES BUT TRAY, MAKER'S MARK OF EDUARD FRIEDMANN CIRCA

Comprising coffeepot, cream jug, sugar bowl, five cups and saucers and tray; each piece pear-shaped on spreading circular foot, with applied gadrooned bands and angular handles, the coffee pot with cylindrical finial above ivory and beaded bands; the oval tray with similar rim, marked with fourth title hallmark, maker's mark, and additional mark "P"; tray marked third title and with mark"KM" only--height of coffee pot 7 1/2in. (19cm.); length of tray 18 3/4in. (47.6cm.)
(gross weight 84 oz.) (14)

拍品专文

Silversmith Eduard Friedmann executed designs of several prominent Viennese artists, including Otto Prutscher and Hans Bolek. Friedmann's work and that of other silver manufacturers working alongside the Wiener Werkstatte is illustrated and discussed in Annelies Krekel-Aalberse, Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver, New York, 1989, figs. 194-196, pp. 200, 209. It is tempting to attribute the "P" and "KM" marks on this service and tray to Prutscher and Kolomon Moser, but these marks are unrecorded.