Jutta SIKA (designer), Koloman MOSER (designer), WIENER PORZELLANMANUFAKTUR JOSEF BÖCK, Vienna (decorator)
Coffee service
(1901-1902)
Medium
stoneware
Measurements
(a-b) 19.8 × 12.9 × 9.8 cm (overall) (coffee pot)
(c-d) 18.5 × 12.5 × 9.0 cm (overall) (hot milk pot)
(e-f) 11.3 × 10.5 cm diameter (overall) (sugar bowl)
(g-r) 8.5 × 15.8 cm diameter (overall) (cup and saucer) (each)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, NGV Supporters of Decorative Arts, 2018
Gallery location
Mid 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Jutta Sika designed a number of distinctive decorative schemes to adorn innovative table ware forms created by her teacher Koloman Moser and executed under the auspices of Josef Böck’s firm. Sika’s bold and innovative decorations show the clear influence of Japanese graphic design, especially textile patterns. Japanese textile stencils – katagame – were employed by Moser and Josef Hoffmann to teach their students the principles of flat pattern design. Despite the firm’s title, Josef Böck did not manufacture ceramics but commissioned porcelain and stoneware vessels from a number of Bohemian and Austrian factories and then decorated these wares in its Vienna workshops.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Vienna, Austria
Accession Number
2018.1498.a-r
Department
International Decorative Arts