About the Artwork
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.
Wine Cup with Cover
1909
Carl Otto Czeschka
1879-1960
Austrian
Unknown
Silver gilt with lapis lazuli
Overall: 9 3/4 × 5 1/8 inches (24.8 × 13 cm)
Silver
European Modern Art to 1970
Gift of George G. Booth
23.161
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George G. Booth
1923-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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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).
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Carl Otto Czeschka, Wine Cup with Cover, 1909, silver gilt with lapis lazuli. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of George G. Booth, 23.161.
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