Flower vase, 1900

Glazed earthenware
h. 5 3/4 in. (14,5 cm)
Made under the direction of Pr. Koloman Moser in
the ceramic workshop of the Kunstgewerbeschule,
Vienna
Unique piece

PROVENANCE : Collection of Fritz Wärndorfer, Vienna, ca. 1900 - Presumably in the Wärndorfer family in the United States after 1914 - (...) - American private collection - A.P. Collection, London, ca. 1985 - Im Kinsky, Vienna, 16th December, 2020, lot 134.

EXHIBITED : The VIIIth Secession Exhibition, Vienna, 1900 - Koloman Moser : Designing Modern Vienna, 1897-1907, at the Neue Galerie, New York, from 23rd May to 2nd September 2013 and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from 25th September 2013 to 12th January 2014.

SIMILAR PIECES : Another vase from this group is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (C.7-1982).

LITERATURE : Ernst Ploil, ‘Glass and ceramics’ in Christian Witt-Dörring (Ed.), Koloman Moser, Designing Modern Vienna, 1897 - 1907, 2013, illustrated page 253.