Josef Hoffmann for Wiener Werkstatte Vienna circa 1920 Silver Dish

Josef Hoffmann for Wiener Werkstatte Vienna circa 1920 Silver Dish. A Sterling silver bowls hand chased, made of silver and hallmarked on the lower bottom.  Manufacture: ‘Wiener Werkstätte’  ’Vienna Workshop’ Dating: circa 1920. Beautiful stepped design with centerline ball treatment gives this dish a very unique look. A well-known Hoffman design.

We also have a beautiful matching similar pair,

slightly smaller you can see here.

Josef Hoffmann was an Austrian architect and designer. He was among the founders of Vienna Secession and co-establisher of the Wiener Werkstätte. Josef Hoffmann designed a number of significant works of art in the 1920s. These are still considered to be pioneering the discipline of object-design until today. This Jugenstil design direction was developed by Hoffman as co-founder and influencer of the Vienna Wiener Werkstatte collective. He was one of the founding members, with Gustav Klimt, of an association of revolutionary artists and architects, the Vienna Secession.

Josef Franz Maria Hoffmann

 (1870-1956)