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Collection Online as of May 18, 2025

Two-Handled Cup

c. 1922
(Austrian, 1870–1956)
(Austria, Vienna, 1903–32)
Austria, Vienna
brass
Overall: 18.8 x 27.9 x 18.3 cm (7 3/8 x 11 x 7 3/16 in.)
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1983.71
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This two-handled brass cup, designed by Josef Hoffmann in Vienna, shows the influence of a young Dagobert Peche, who brought a more whimsical sensibility to the Wiener Werkstätte when he became the design director in 1916.

Description

Greatly influenced by German and Austrian neoclassical design from the early 1800s, Josef Hoffmann’s cup mixes classical fluting with a surface showing hammer marks, which catch the light and are typical of early 20th-century handwork.
  • Turner, Evan H. “Year in Review for 1983.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (February 1984): 38–79. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 70-71, no. 91 www.jstor.org
    Coffin, Sarah D., and Stephen Harrison. The Jazz Age: American style in the 1920s. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017. Reproduced: fig. 108, p. 78; Mentioned: p. 77
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art; "The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s." Sept. 30, 2017-Jan. 14, 2018.
    The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).
    The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 16, 2005-January 8, 2006).
    Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (12/19/04-4/3/05); Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum (5/19-9/5/05); Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art (10/16/05-1/8/06): "The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe and America: Design for the Modern World"
    The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).
  • {{cite web|title=Two-Handled Cup|url=false|author=Josef Hoffmann, Wiener Werkstätte|year=c. 1922|access-date=18 May 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1983.71