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Object NameVase with Reclining Female Figures

Designer(Form) Josef Hoffmann (Austrian, 1870-1956)

Designer/Enameler(Enamel) Vally Wieselthier (Austrian, 1895-1945)

Maker Wiener Werkstätte (1903-1932)

Maker Johann. Oertel & Co. (f. 1896)

Made FromNon-Lead Glass, Enamel

Date1917-1920

Place MadeBohemia or Czechoslovakia, Novy Bor (Haida); Austria, Vienna

TechniqueEnameled, mold-blown, ground, polished

SizeOverall H: 14.4 cm, Diam (max): 15.8 cm

Accession Number87.3.3

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

Glass of the Architects: Vienna, 1900-1937

On ViewModern Gallery

Physical DescriptionVase with Reclining Female Figures. Colorless non-lead glass with red, dark blue, and light blue enamels; mold-blown, bowl and foot joined while cold. Thin-walled bowl with slightly flared ground and polished rim enameled blue; walls divided into three horizontal bands with enameled decoration on colorless background; top band has two reclining draped female nudes on opposite walls painted in blue on white with shaded flesh tones, separated by panels enclosing linear floral designs in light and dark blue; narrow middle band edged in blue with four sections of angled vertical red stripes edged on one side in blue, sections interspersed with alternating single stars and cross hatches; lower wide band has two alternating rows of small blue flowers; hollow conical foot joined while cold, decorated in three bands; top - evenly spaced stars, middle - edged in blue and divided by same striped pattern of middle body band; lower - thick stripe of deep blue; base rim ground and polished; no pontil.
Provenance

Source Michael Kovacek - 1987-01-22