study for the "Emperor's Cassette" for Emperor Franz Josef I.
Design: Carl Otto Czeschka 1905
Execution: Georg Klimt for the Wiener Werkstätte
Model No. S 672
Gold plated, embossed sheet metal
14 × 14 cm each, framed in wooden frame
The "Emperor's Cassette" was presented to Emperor Franz Josef I in memory of his visit to the Skoda Works in Pilsen on September 9, 1905. It was the first work performed by Czeschka for the Wiener Werkstätte.
Dedication "Cassette for the Emperor of Austria / Skoda Works Pilsen 1906" "Cassette" (KI 115Department: Metal and Wiener Werkstätte Archive
Inventory number: WWF 113-43-2
Associated object: "Cassette" dedication "Cassette for the Emperor of Austria / Skoda Werke Pilsen 1906" (WWE 250)
Photo: MAK Collection: Archive of the Wiener Werkstätte
literature
Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, 1906, p. 417 for a reproduction of the Emperor's Cassette; Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener Werkstätte - Avantgarde, Art Déco, Industrial Design, Vienna, 1985, p. 89, Fig. 57 for one of the panels; Peter Noever, ed., Sehnsucht nach Schönheit: Die Wiener Werkstätte und das Haus Stoclet, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2006, p. 222, cat. MI 23 for a picture of the Kaiserkassett