House Dog | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: BR55.41
People: Carl Otto Czeschka, Austrian (Vienna, Austria 1878 - 1960 Hamburg, Germany)
Manufactured by Wiener Werkstätte (1903 - 1932)
Title: House Dog
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Haushund
Classification: Textile Arts
Work Type: textile
Date: 1910-1911
Places: Creation Place: Europe, Austria, Vienna
Culture: Austrian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/223686

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Ink on silk

Technique

Relief print

Dimensions

14.6 x 10.1 cm (5 3/4 x 4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

label: not attached, blue ink, printed, German: Entwurf: C. O. Czeschka
Marke: Haushund 1 S/1
Breite: 90 Preis: 8.70

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Rudolph Rosenthal, 1914, Sold to Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1954.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchased from Rudolph Rosenthal, 1954, Gift to HUAM, 1955. Given to the BRM in exchange for 50 early 20th-century German textiles

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession Year: 1955
Object Number: BR55.41
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: mounted with BR55.38 and BR55.42
black ink

Publication History

Angela Völker, Die Stoffe der Wiener Werkstätte 1910-1932, Christian Brandstätter Verlag (Vienna, Austria, 1990), no. 75

Verification Level

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BR55.41: House Dog