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Object NamePrunted Cup

Maker University of Wisconsin

Maker Erwin Eisch (German, 1927-2022)

Made FromGlass

Date1964

Techniqueblown, applied decoration

SizeOverall H: 7.3 cm, W: 7.6 cm

Accession Number64.3.31

Credit LineGift of Erwin Eisch

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Masters of Studio Glass: Erwin Eisch

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

Eisch visited Littleton for the first time in 1964. In addition to the glassmaking equipment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Littleton had a furnace on his farm in Verona. “There, in the barn, which recently had been home to 27 cows, stood a small furnace, several annealing ovens, and tools and machines of all kinds,” Eisch remembers. “This was all very new for me. I was totally abashed and completely speechless.” The small cup, covered with prunts, evokes the long heritage of glassworking in the Bavarian forest.

Place Made

United States, WI, Madison

Physical DescriptionPale green tinted bubbly #475 blown glass marbles, applied decoration. Irregular cylindrical shape; thick rounded rim; five applied prunts encircle lower wall; rough pontil, unsigned.
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