Witwe Lötz

INKWELL

Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna

Date 1901

Period 20th century

Origin Vienna

Dimension 7.5 x 16 cm (3 x 6¹/₄ inches)

Executed by: Lötz Witwe, Klostermühle, for E. Bakalowits Söhne, Vienna, 1901
Décor: Phänomen Gre 358
Shape: 1901, prod. no. 85/3930

A particularly lavish Phänomen decoration was used on this inkwell. It was first employed by Franz Hofstötter to decorate his seminal vase designs for the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900. It is very likely that the inkwell is also by Hofstötter, though documenting that has not been possible to date. An almost identical inkwell, also around 1900, was made for E. Bakalowits Söhne.

Date: 1901

Period: 20th century

Origin: Vienna

Dimension: 7.5 x 16 cm (3 x 6¹/₄ inches)

Literature: H. Ricke (ed.), Lötz. Böhmisches Glas 1880–1940, Munich, 1989, vol. 1, p. 174, and vol. 2, p. 290 (paper pattern)

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Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna

Viennese Jugendstil, Secessionist Movement

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