Wine Cup with Cover, 1909

  • Carl Otto Czeschka, Austrian, 1879-1960

Silver gilt with lapis lazuli

  • Overall: 9 3/4 × 5 1/8 inches (24.8 × 13 cm)

Gift of George G. Booth

23.161

On View

  • Modern, Level 2, North
  • Modern, Level 2, North

Department

European Modern Art to 1970

Although Czeschka designed for the Wiener Werkstätte, he turned from the purist style of the Werkstätte to an eclectic individualism. Up until about 1907, Werkstätte production had been dominated by architectural principles, but after that period simple surface planes and structural forms were often abandoned in favor of complex plays of all-consuming pattern, as seen on the base of this cup.

George G. Booth

1923-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

R.P. "Handicraft from the Wiener Werkstaette." Bulletin of the DIA 5, no. 6 (March 1924): pp. 46-47 (ill.). Tucker, Kevin W. The Wittgenstein Vitrine: Modern Opulence in Vienna. Exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas, 2015, pp. 33-34 (fig. 39).

Carl Otto Czeschka, Wine Cup with Cover, 1909, silver gilt with lapis lazuli. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of George G. Booth, 23.161.