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  • We acquired this object.

1922

  • Work on this object began.

1923

  • Work on this object ended.

2017

2024

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Four-Piece Tea Set

This is a Four-Piece Tea Set. It was manufactured by Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated Designed 1922, completed 1923. Its medium is silver, ivory.

Although Hoffmann used traditional materials for this tea set, it is anything but traditional. Commissioned by Joseph Urban to support his Austrian colleagues, the set was made in Austria in 1923 but first shown in New York, where it may have been too avant-garde to sell. Urban retained the piece, and later script writer Frances Marion acquired it from him.

It is credited Lent by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the 2007 Collectors Committee, M.2007.52.1-.4.

  • Coffee Maker
  • chrome-plated metal, enamel.
  • Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
  • 1993-150-44-b,c
  • Coffee Service (USA)
  • chrome-plated metal, enamel.
  • Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
  • 1993-150-44

Our curators have highlighted 5 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

  • Diplomat Coffee Set
  • chromium-plated copper, catalin.
  • Gift of George R. Kravis II.
  • 2018-22-103/105

Its dimensions are

.1) Teapot: 23.5 × 7.62 cm (9 1/4 × 3 in.) .2) Creamer: 10.48 × 15.88 × 6.99 cm (4 1/8 × 6 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.) .3a) Sugar lid: 3.18 × 9.53 × 6.67 cm (1 1/4 × 3 3/4 × 2 5/8 in.) .3b) Sugar bowl: 6.67 × 9.84 × 6.67 cm (2 5/8 × 3 7/8 × 2 5/8 in.) .3a-b) Sugar bowl and lid: 9.53 × 9.84 cm (3 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.) .4) Tray: 6.35 × 60.96 × 12.07 cm (2 1/2 × 24 × 4 3/4 in.)

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

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