tumbler

Object NameSmall Tumbler or Shot Glass

Maker Riedel Glas Austria

Maker Otto Zeman Workshop

Made FromGlass, Enamel

Dateabout 1930

Place Madeprobably Bohemia

TechniqueEnameled, blown, mold-blown, cut, polished, acid-etched, engraved, painted, fired

SizeOverall H: 6.8 cm

Accession Number72.3.65 C

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionSmall Tumbler or Shot Glass. Colorless glass, black and white enamels, metallic silver; blown, mold-blown, cut, polished, acid-etched, engraved, painted, fired. Small six-sided tumbler or shot glass with lipless ground and polished rim, broad front and back panels with spiral decoration tapering to small circle with etched (frosted) interior, same decoration in reverse on opposite wall, narrow sides of vessel formed of two narrow panels meeting at an angle; sides taper in to solid base ground and polished flat, no pontil; unsigned.
Provenance

Source Parke-Bernet Galleries, NYC - 1972-12-15
lot 157