Details:
Manufacture: Johann Loetz Witwe
Designer: Koloman Moser
Decor: Vulkan
Style: Jugendstil
Material: Molded and free-formed glass, reduced, improved pontil
Color: Greenish ground with spreading brown-violet inner casing
Period: 1903
Description:
One of the most important and successful collaborations of Johann Loetz Witwe is the collaboration with the Viennese retailer E. Bakalowits. This collaboration lasted 30 years and took place in the period 1890 to the 1920’s. The most important and successful period of this collaboration took place during the years just after 1900. The craftsmanship of glass blowing and the creativity of the designers commissioned by E. Bakalowits resulted in advanced designs. Many of these unique objects were designed by Koloman Moser and Robert Holubetz and where exhibed in art exhibitions such as the eighth winter exhibition of the Wiener Seccession.
This vase was designed by Koloman Moss in the year 1903 in a decor that was executed exclusively for E. Bakalowits in Vienna, namely “Vulkan”. The design of this vase is probably Koloman Moser’s one of the most logically consistent and revolutionary design, designed around the time the Wiener Werkstätte was founded in 1903.
Johann Loetz Witwe Production number 85/5110 in commission for E. Bakalowits Söhne, Vienna – 1903.
Dimensions:
Height: 180mm / 7.08″
Diameter: 185mm / 7.28″
Condition: Mint
Literature:
Prestel – Böhmisch Glas 1880 – 1940 Band 1 Werkmonographie. Page 173 & 183.
Prestel – Böhmisch Glas 1880 – 1940 Band 2 Katalog der Musterschnitte. Page 309 & 549.
Hatje Cantz – Loetz Bohemian Glass 1880 – 1940. Page 141 & 158.
Passauer Glasmuseum – Das Böhmisch Glas 1700 – 1950 Band IV – Jugendstil in Böhmen – Page 72.
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