Flagon with Cover

ca. 1908

Josef Hoffmann Austrian, 1870-1956

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Modern, Level 2, North Wing

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Title Flagon with Cover

Artwork Date ca. 1908

Artist Josef Hoffmann

Life Dates 1870-1956

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Austrian

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Medium Silver and gilt silver

Dimensions Overall: 12 7/8 × 5 3/8 × 4 7/8 inches (32.7 × 13.7 × 12.4 cm)

Classification Silver

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Gift of George G. Booth

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 23.162

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Marks Stamp: [symbol] Stamp, in a square: MADE IN AUSTRIA Stamp: WEINER | WERKE | STATTE Stamp: 900

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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.).

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Josef Hoffmann, Flagon with Cover, ca. 1908, silver and gilt silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of George G. Booth, 23.162.

1926

Wall Hanging

Multiple makers

ca. 1927

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Woman's Blouse

Italian

c. 1946

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