• Eye level profile of the Art Deco parrot tongs highlighting the curved serrated beak and figure-eight loop handles above the angular foot
  • Silver-tone Hagenauer bird sugar tongs standing on a triangular foot on stone tile, raking sunlight casting a long sculptural shadow
  • Hagenauer parrot sugar tongs lying on travertine, the long serrated beak forming the jaws and looped handles forming the body, beside a brown book
  • Overhead view of the Austrian parrot tongs in sunlight showing the crested head, round eye, wattle, and curled scroll handles
  • Hagenauer sugar tongs standing upright on a travertine table, an open art book blurred in the background
  • Close view of the triangular foot stamped Hagenauer Wien with the WHW monogram and Made in Austria mark
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Eye level profile of the Art Deco parrot tongs highlighting the curved serrated beak and figure-eight loop handles above the angular foot
Silver-tone Hagenauer bird sugar tongs standing on a triangular foot on stone tile, raking sunlight casting a long sculptural shadow
Hagenauer parrot sugar tongs lying on travertine, the long serrated beak forming the jaws and looped handles forming the body, beside a brown book
Overhead view of the Austrian parrot tongs in sunlight showing the crested head, round eye, wattle, and curled scroll handles
Hagenauer sugar tongs standing upright on a travertine table, an open art book blurred in the background
Close view of the triangular foot stamped Hagenauer Wien with the WHW monogram and Made in Austria mark

Hagenauer Parrot Sugar Tongs - Austria, c.1920

$930.00
$930.00
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Found in United States

A genuinely rare piece from Hagenauer's Vienna workshop, these sugar tongs are shaped as a highly stylized parrot, most likely designed by Karl Hagenauer himself. The bird's form is reduced to its most essential lines, a crested head with a long, serrated beak forming the gripping ends, and a looping tail curling back into the handle, a hallmark of the workshop's confident, modernist approach to animal subjects.

This example is well documented, appearing on Hagenauer's own official archive, which identifies the design specifically as a parrot. The piece is correctly marked on the underside of the base with the impressed "Hagenauer Wien" and "Made in Austria" stamps, details that serious collectors will want to look for when authenticating similar pieces.

Executed in brass with nickel plating, the tongs date to the 1920s or 1930s, the height of Hagenauer's most celebrated design period. Measuring 5.75 x 3 x 1", the piece has genuine sculptural presence well beyond its function, equally at home serving sugar cubes at a formal table or displayed on its own as a small work of Viennese modernist design.

A significant find for collectors of Hagenauer or Austrian design of this period, this piece rewards close study of its documented history as much as its striking form.

Collectors Notes

Documented Hagenauer pieces like this one, confirmed directly against the workshop's own archive, don't come up often, which is part of what makes it worth seeking out for a home decor edit built around real provenance. The sculptural form alone earns it a spot among our silver pieces as well.
Dimensions

5.75 x 3 x 1"
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Eye level profile of the Art Deco parrot tongs highlighting the curved serrated beak and figure-eight loop handles above the angular foot
Silver-tone Hagenauer bird sugar tongs standing on a triangular foot on stone tile, raking sunlight casting a long sculptural shadow
Hagenauer parrot sugar tongs lying on travertine, the long serrated beak forming the jaws and looped handles forming the body, beside a brown book
Overhead view of the Austrian parrot tongs in sunlight showing the crested head, round eye, wattle, and curled scroll handles
Hagenauer sugar tongs standing upright on a travertine table, an open art book blurred in the background
Close view of the triangular foot stamped Hagenauer Wien with the WHW monogram and Made in Austria mark
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