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Milk jug, Tondi 10-Part Coffee and Tea Service, 1901/02

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Porcelain, yellow glaze
8.2×10.3×8.3 cm

Artists

  • Koloman Moser

    (Vienna 1868–1918 Vienna)

  • Jutta Sika

    (Linz 1877–1964 Vienna)

  • Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur Josef Böck
Currently on display at OG4
Together with her teacher Koloman Moser (1868–1918), Jutta Sika (1877–1964) designed various decors and articles of daily use for the Viennese porcelain manufactory Josef Böck, including this 1901/02 Tondi Coffee and Tea Service. Moser was responsible for the form, Sika for the decor. With its avant-garde design, the service occupies a special place. The parts of the service that are in the Leopold Collection are, in addition to the milk jug, a coffeepot, a teapot, a sugar bowl and the accompanying cups and saucers.
The service was certainly intended as part of an entire series of similar objects created in keeping with the idea of a Gesamtkunstwerk, or universal work of art. Sika also furnished designs for the company Argentor, and from 1905 worked as a designer for the fashion salon Schwestern Flöge. She designed seven postcards for the Wiener Werkstätte and featured with her designs in the 1908 and 1909 Kunstschau. Sika further created stage costumes for the dancer Grete Wiesenthal (1885–1970) in which the latter was often photographed by the Austrian photographer Dora Kallmus, known as Madame d’Ora (1881–1963).

Object data

Artist/author
  • Design Shape: Koloman Moser
  • Design Decor: Jutta Sika
  • Execution: Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur Josef Böck
Title
Milk jug, Tondi 10-Part Coffee and Tea Service
Date
1901/02
Art movement
Wiener Werkstätte, Art Nouveau
Category
Arts and crafts
Material​/technique
Porcelain, yellow glaze
Dimensions
8.2×10.3×8.3 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 4229
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Wien 1900. Aufbruch in die Moderne, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2019 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, ab 15.03.2019).
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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (1994)

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