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