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Figure 12 Carl Otto Czeschka and

Josef Hoffmann, tall-case clock, c. 1906. Painted maple, ebony, mahogany, gilt brass, glass, silverplated copper, patinated bronze, clockworks. Art Institute of Chicago, Laura Matthews and Mary Waller Langhorne endowments (1983.37).

figure 13 Detail of the tall-case clock showing Czeschka’s repoussé bird-and-vine motif. Figure 14 Fire screen with an

embroidered bird-and-flower design by Czeschka set within a frame designed by Josef Hoffmann, c. 1906. Frame: oak stained black; textile: petit-point embroidery. MAK: Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/ Contemporary Art, Vienna (T-12765).

Figure 15 Program cover, Cabaret

Fledermaus, 1907. Color lithograph. imagno/Austrian Archives.

Figure 16 Costume design, “Dark

Mask,” for the Cabaret Fledermaus, 1907. Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung, University of Cologne.

Figure 17 Vitrine, detail of one of the standing figures.

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