LOT DETAILS

Materials:

silver and ebony

Size Notes:

teapot; milk jug: 9.8 x 6.4 x 10.2 cm; sugar bowl: 3.5 x 17 x 11.4 cm

Description:

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Markings:

teapot, infuser,milk jug and sugar bowl impressed with German silver standard mark 900 and crown for Germany

Literature:

Marianne Brandt (design) and Lucia Moholy (photo), Coffee and Tea Set, 1924, Bauhaus Archive, Museum of Design, Berlin, ref. 3269/I-VI (for a service with the same model of teapot and milk jug as the present lot). Herbert Bayer, Das Bauhaus in Dessau, Katalog der Muster, Dessau, 1925, n. ME 24. Làszlo Moholy-Nagy, "Das Bauhaus in Dessau," Qualität, May-June 1925, p. 86 (for a service with the same model of teapot and milk jug as the present lot). Die Schaulade, Bamberg, July 1926, p. 217 . Drexler and Daniel, Introduction to Twentieth Century Design from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959, pl. 37 . Walter Gropius, "Neue Arbeiten der Bauhauswerkstätten, Bauhausbücher 7," Munich, 1981, pp. 48, 49 and 53. H. M. Wingler, Bauhaus Archiv Museum, Berlin, 1981, p. 107, no. 194 (for the model of the teapot and milk jug in the collection of the Bauhaus Archiv Museum, Berlin). Judy Rudoe, Decorative Arts 1850-1950, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 1991, p. 22 (for a discussion of the different models). Klaus Weber, Die Metallwerkstatt am Bauhaus, exh. cat., Bauhaus-Archiv Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, 1992, pp. 142-143, figs. 40-43. New Worlds, German and Austrian Art 1890-1940, exh. cat., Neue Galerie, New York, 2001, p. 535 (for a similar example of the milk jug). Ulrike Müller, Bauhaus Women: Art, Handicraft, Design, Paris, 2009, p. 122 (for the model of the teapot in the collection of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar)

Provenance:

Collection Karl Gröppel, Bochum, Germany, circa 1920s, likely acquired direcly from The Bauhaus. Thence by descent to the present owner