bowl

Object NameBowl

Maker Johann Lötz Witwe (Bohemian Factory)

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1900

TechniqueIridized, blown, hot-worked, ground, polished

SizeOverall H: 6 cm, Diam (max): 20.9 cm

Accession Number90.3.63

Credit LineGift of William P. Allis in memory of his wife, Nancy Olive Morison Allis

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

The Tradition of the Avant-Garde: Bohemian Glass 1820-1935

Exhibition Universelle

Place Made

Bohemia, Klastersky Mlyn (Klostermuehle)

Physical DescriptionBowl. Base of transparent greenish, fading into amber body, fading into cobalt rim, applied opalescent trailing; interior iridized blue (appearing opaque) glass; blown, hot-worked, iridized. Low wide bowl, with irregularly ruffled wide rim; shallow body heavily iridized blue on interior and decorated on exterior with applied opalescent trail pulled into a band of double-pointed feathers; flattened base, pontil has caused slight protrusion on interior; ground and polished pontil; scattered pitting in surface; inscribed on pontil trademark of two crossed arrows with four stars inside a circle; on outside edge of pontil inscribed in script: "Lötz"; two paper labels on base, smaller with brown Art Nouveau style border, (barely visible) "636/fs.-"; larger label has red border, written in ink: "Fr. Paris/Exposition/1900/signed/Lötz Fr. glass/20.00".
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