demitasse cup and saucer

demitasse cup and saucer, 1901

Where object was made: Austria

Material/technique: stenciling; porcelain; glaze

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Diameter (Height x Width x Diameter): cup 5.4 x 7.62 x 6.03 cm
Object Height/Width/Diameter (Height x Width x Diameter): 2 1/8 x 3 x 2 3/8 in
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): saucer 3.81 x 10.16 cm
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): 1 1/2 x 4 in

Credit line: Gift of Robert A. Hiller

Accession number: 2013.0076.a,b

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Exhibition Label:
“Holding Pattern: New Works at the Spencer Museum,” Sep-2014, Susan Earle and Cassandra Mesick
This demitasse coffee cup and saucer was designed in 1901 by Jutta Sika, who was inspired by the anti-academic design philosophy of the Vienna Secession. The cup is signed on the bottom “Schule Prof. Kolo Moser” for Secession founder Koloman Moser. These artists and designers embraced an aesthetic of simplicity realized in the basic geometric shapes and solid fields of color of their products.

Exhibition Label:
"Quilts: A Thread of Modernism," Aug-2005, Debra Thimmesch and Barbara Brackman
Founders of the Wiener Werkstätte, Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser were involved in the anti-academic Secession in Vienna in the late nineteenth century. Their philosophy that artistic endeavor should permeate all aspects of everyday life found favor with designers such as Joseph Olbrich and Jutta Sika. Unlike the sensuous vegetation of the Art Nouveau style, Wiener Werkstätte artists and architects embraced an aesthetic of simplicity realized in the basic geometric shapes and solid fields of color of their products.