Silvered bronze chandelier from the Wiener Werkstatte. The finial that touches the ceiling is a multi-petaled leaf. A long thin silverplated pole leads down to the lightbulb section. The pole has a spiral vine with leaves that meander down the pole. All of the six globe-shaped bulbs are set into a many-leafed receptacle where the bulbs are screwed in. The leaves below the bulbs are slanted upward and look as though they were cut with a tin shears. Below the leaves, the stem loops and there are six-budded flowers, which haven’t opened yet. Below that are more leaves. There are spirals and loops above some of the bulbs.

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Chandelier, Designed 1922, made 1923

This is a Chandelier. It was manufactured by Wiener Werkstätte.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

It is dated Designed 1922, made 1923. Its medium is silvered bronze.

Dagobert Peche added a more rococo aesthetic to the Wiener Werkstätte when he became its codirector in 1916. This chandelier was an early addition to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s modern decorative arts collection, having been acquired by curator Joseph Breck from the Wiener Werkstätte shop in New York in 1923.

It is credited Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1923 (23.213.1).

The poster, when divided in half horizontally is a mirror image pattern with the words 'Spitzen der Wiener Werkstatte' in the center. At the top and bottom are left and right boxes of repeating black diamonds in straight lines. Dividing these two boxes is an image of three blooms with stems and branching leaves in the foreground and two blooms at the top corners, with a cracked pattern in the background, reminenscent of stained glass. This image is mirrored in reverse at the bottom of the poster. Solid triangle borders cover the top and bottom of the poster and it is signed at the bottom, D. Peche.

Poster, Spitzen der Wiener Werkstätte (Wiener Werkstätte Lacework)
lithograph on off-white paper.
Museum purchase through gift of George A. Hearn.
2002-19-1

Vase (Austria)
chased, raised, cast, and applied silver.
Gift of Ely Jacques Kahn.
1962-227-2

Print, Woman in a Garden
woodcut, brush and watercolor on thin paper.
Museum purchase from Drawings and Prints Department Fund.
1979-93-1

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Textile, Semiramis
silk.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2005-8-51-a/d

Its dimensions are

H x W: 123.2 × 58.7 cm (48 1/2 × 23 1/8 in.) Weight: 17 lbs.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

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Accession Number 66.2016.7
Object ID 907214309