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1962	We acquired this object.
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Fruit Bowl Bowl

This is a Bowl. It was designed by Josef Hoffmann and manufactured by Wiener Werkstätte and produced by Wiener Werkstätte. We acquired it in 1962. Its medium is silver. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Greatly influenced by early 19th-century German and Austrian neoclassical design, Josef Hoffmann’s bowl mixes classical fluting with a surface showing light- catching hammer marks typical of early 20th-century handwork. Pioneering architect Ely Jacques Kahn gave this bowl to Cooper Hewitt.

This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Flute song in silver.

This object was donated by Ely Jacques Kahn.

Length of woven wool with columns of fine vertical lines broken by rows of inverted triangles and heart-like shapes in beige with touches of pale green on a black ground (faded to dark brown in some areas).

Textile, Notschrei (Cry for Help), 1904
wool.
Museum purchase through General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
1985-52-2

Seven-lobed bowl with slight rim on high lobed spread foot.

Pair Of Bowls (USA), late 19th–early 20th century
sterling silver.
Gift of Mrs. Gerard P. Herrick.
1959-81-5-a,b

A silver vase with a pattern of leaves around the sides. This vase also has a carved and raised foot, and a flared lip.

Vase (Austria), 1923
chased, raised, cast, and applied silver.
Gift of Ely Jacques Kahn.
1962-227-2

Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

Lozenge-shaped base surmounted by box-like inkwell with hinged lid and removable glass liner.

Inkwell, ca. 1904–1915
brass, glass.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2018-22-55

White flared everted cup form above black knopped stem and and spreading foot with black lines .

Bowl (Austria), ca. 1914
mold blown, internally decorated white and overlaid opaline and applied black....
Gift of Daniel Morris and Denis Gallion.
1993-134-8

Tall, tapering six-sided bowl with everted lobed rim and circular foot; hammered surface and applied border.

Lotus Bowl, 1912–17
raised and chased silver.
Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper-Hewitt,....
2008-3-1

Cite this object as

Fruit Bowl Bowl; Designed by Josef Hoffmann (Austrian, b. Moravia, 1870–1956); Austria; silver; 1962-227-1

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

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CwLx/
Accession Number 1962-227-1
Object ID 18444031