Description & Technical information
Designed by: Otto Prutscher, around 1908
Executed by: Lötz Witwe, Klostermühle
Décor: Perl Glass
Shape: 1908, prod. no. II-5517
Cobalt blue glass, covered by a layer of transparent glass containing tiny silver balls.
Prutscher used the ‘pearl glass’, which he appreciated a lot, for the series of vases he designed for the Vienna Kunstschau 1908.
Period: 20th century
Origin: Austrian
Medium: Cobalt blue glass
Dimensions: 17.7 cm (7 inches)
Provenance: Private property, Austria
Literature: J. Lněničková, Loetz, Series II, Paper Patterns for Glass from 1900 to 1914, 2011, p. 539; Passauer Glasmuseum, Das böhmische Glas, vol. IV, cat. no. 166, p. 103; Moderne Bauformen, VII, 1908, p. 387
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