Franz Hofstötter - INKWELL

Date	around 1900
Period	Vienna, around 1900
Origin	Austrian
Medium	Glass
Dimensions	11 x 17.5 cm (4³/₈ x 6⁷/₈ inches)
Gallery	Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna

Description
Technical

Designed by: Franz Hofstötter, around 1900

Executed by: Johann Lötz Witwe, Klostermühle, for E. Bakalowits Söhne, Vienna, 1900

Décor: Phänomen Gre 358

Shape: cf. 85/3930/I-II

H 11 cm, Ø 17.5 cm

This inkwell features an elegant brass mount and a particularly elaborate and lavish Phänomen décor that was first used by Franz Hofstötter in his seminal vase designs, presented at the 1900 Paris World Exposition.

Date: around 1900
Period: Vienna, around 1900
Origin: Austrian
Medium: Glass
Dimensions: 11 x 17.5 cm (4³/₈ x 6⁷/₈ inches)
Literature: H. Ricke (ed.), Lötz. Böhmisches Glas 1880–1940, Munich, 1989, vol. 2, p. 290 (paper pattern)