St. Michael im Lungau, Salzburg 1887 - 1923 Mödling bei Wien

Jardinière

Manufactured by Johann Lötz Witwe, Klostermühle, for the Austrian Werkbund, serial no 274

Colourless glass, white underlayering, dark red covering layer, all-round etched décor, etched in two phases, ornaments with frosted background

H 7.2 cm, L 18.2 cm, W 12 cm

Rare mark “Loetz” etched outside

Ausstellungen:

Model designed for the Werkbundausstellung, Cologne 1914

Literatur:

cf Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, vol. XXXIV, Darmstadt, Apr. – Sept. 1914, ill. p. 379
cf Exhibition catalogue “Dagobert Peche and the Wiener Werkstätte”,
Neue Galerie, New York 2002-03, ill. p. 348, no 201 (black covering layer)
cf Jan Mergl, Ernst Ploil, Helmut Ricke, Lötz. Böhmisches Glas 1880 bis 1940, Ostfildern-Ruit 2003, ill. p. 231, no 44 and p. 247, no 206 (black covering layer)