An extremely rare complete glazed ceramic coffee set by pioneering female ceramicist Vally Wieselthier for the Wiener Werkstätte.
The set comprising covered coffee pot, covered sugar bowl, and creamer, the coffee pot and sugar bowl with sculptural fruit and flower finials, which rest on a matching decorated tray; with 6 matching demitasse cups and saucers.
The set is decorated with hand-painted underglaze motif of whimsical floral design in pink, red, blue and brown, with matching pink handles with blue “coils” on the coffee pot, creamer and cups.
Coffee pot: 9” high, 8” long, 4 ½” deep
Creamer: 4” high, 5” long, 3” deep
Sugar bowl: 5” high, 4” diameter
Tea cups: 2 ⅛” high, 3 ¼” long, 2” wide
Saucers: 1 ⅛” high, 4 ⅜”diameter
Tray: 1 ⅜” high, 11 ½” long, 10 ½” wide
Illustrated:
Marianne Hörmann, Vally Wieselthier, 1895-1945 (Wien: Böhlau, 1999), pg. 134, fig. 26, (WV-K 142b).
Related examples:
- 1920's publicity photo in the Wiener Werkstätte Archive at MAK Vienna showing the same garniture in a different glaze (published in the WW’s 1929 book designed by Wieseltheir and Gudrun Baudisch)
- Period photo of the same design in a mottled glaze in the WW Archive, Collection of MAK Vienna
- Single cup and saucer with similar decoration in the collection of LACMA
- Incomplete set in solid green glaze in the collection the Wolfsonian