Bertold Löffler, A butterfly box (“Bonboniere mit Libelle”), model number 144, designed in around 1910, executed by Vereinigte Wiener und Gmundner Keramik, 1913-1918

cylindrical box with domed lid, decorated with a large butterfly on a rose; light-bodied ceramic, glazed white and black; restoration to the wings, the lower part with firing crack and slightly chipped overall; the underside embossed with model number 144 and painted in black 3 and H. F., embossed workshop signets; height 15.1 cm. (MP) Literature: MAK, Vienna, Photographic Archive of the Wiener Werkstätte, inventory no.: WWF 89-30-6; Arlt, Weilinger, Wiener Keramik, p. 274f.