Three-piece tea set

Hans Bolek (1890-1978), a three-piece tea set, designed around 1909, manufactured by Eduard Friedmann, Vienna, silver, the teapot with ivory panels at the handle and finial, of cylindrical oval form, flaring stands, the lower part of the body with fluted decoration, the upper part decorated with an engraved border of scrolling spirals and foliate motifs, comprising a teapot, a creamer and a sugar bowl, all parts with Diana's head mark and maker's mark to the underside, height of teapot 18.5 cm.
Literature: An assorted tazza figured in the exhibition Österreichisches Kunstgewerbe 1909/10 in the ÖMKI, see KKhw, 13/1910, repr. p. 24.