A RARE BENTWOOD AND GLASS VITRINE

KOLOMAN MOSER, AFTER, FOR J. & J. KOHN, CIRCA 1904

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A RARE BENTWOOD AND GLASS VITRINE
Koloman Moser, after, for J. & J. Kohn, circa 1904
72in. (182.8cm.) high, 45in. (115.6cm.) wide, 16in. (42cm.) deep

Provenance

Barry Friedman, New York

Literature

Peter Barnet and MaryAnn Wilkinson, Decorative Arts 1900: Highlights from Private Collections in Detroit, 1993, p. 91, cat. no. 109

Exhibited

Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Decorative Arts 1900: Highlights from Private Collections in Detroit, November 7, 1993-January 9, 1994

Lot Essay

cf. Siegfried Wichmann, Jugendstil Art Nouveau: Floral and Functional Forms, 1984, p. 159, fig. 324 and Jane Kallir, Viennese Design and the Wiener Werksttte (exh. cat.), 1986, p. 82, fig. 15 for illustrations of this model in which the rectilinear lines of Wiener Werksttte design are successfully combined with the curvilinear forms produced by the bentwood method.

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