A large 35-piece dinner service, design: School of Professor Koloman Moser, Vienna, c. 1901

consisting of: fifteen flat plates (diameter 24.4 cm); five soup plates (diameter 24.4 cm); six dessert plates (diameter 19.8 cm); two angular oblong bowls (length 23.8 cm, width 12.7 cm); a large tray (length 57.2 cm, width 23.5 cm); a large plate (diameter 31.2 cm); a large round bowl (height 7 cm, diameter 23 cm); two small angular bowls (height 5.2 cm, length 21 cm, width 20.7 cm) and two large angular bowls (height 6.1 cm, length 24 cm, width 23.7 cm); white glazed porcelain; partly chipped and with craquelure staining; the undersides with black oblong stamp ‘Schule Prof Kolo Moser’ and partly impressed with letters and numbers. (MP)

Literature:
cf MAK, Vienna, Wiener Werkstätte Archive, dinner service by Therese Trethan (?), executed by the School of Arts and Crafts of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Museum for Art and Industry, Vienna, 1901-1902, inventory number: WWF 109-29-3, cf also the table arrangement at the exhibition of the Wiener Werkstätte “Der gedeckte Tisch” on 32 Neustiftgasse, which opened on 11 October 1906, plate: inventory number: WWF 93-41-2.

Specialist: Dr. Magda Pfabigan, M.A.