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Object NameVase
Designer
K. & K. Fachschule für Glasindustrie Haida
(f. 1870)
Manufacturer(glass)
Karl Meltzer & Co.
(f. 1822)
Made FromGlass
Datedesigned about 1914; manufactured about 1914-1920
TechniqueMold-blown, cased, cut, polished
SizeOverall H: 26.1 cm, Diam (max): 9.3 cm
Accession Number2017.3.55
Credit LineGift of Roberta B. Elliott
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Past | Present: Expanding the Stories of Glass
Glass of the Architects: Vienna, 1900-1937
Interpretive NotesThis vase was donated to the Museum by Roberta Elliott. In 1938, her family got the message that their names were on a Nazi deportation list. They fled to the United States, but before leaving, they placed all of their possessions in the care of a colleague in Vienna. Most Jewish families who fled during the war lost everything. But remarkably, the Engels’ (later changed to Elliott) managed to reclaim all of their belongings.
Throughout her life, Roberta has worked to pay her family’s experience forward, even working for the refugee agency that helped resettle her family. Similarly, when she inherited her grandparents’ objects she knew she could not hold onto them herself. She donated this vase to the Museum so that her family’s story of fracture, repair, and resilience could always be told.
Bohemia, Novy Bor (Haida); Bohemia, Skalice u Ceske Lipy (Langenau)
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