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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Glass, Room 131

Figure (Dancer)

1940s (made), c.1925 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Lampworked dancing figure with a clear base, black figure with green hair and red clothing all in glass.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Lampworked glass
Brief description
Lampworked figure of a dancer, designed by Fritz Lampl, Bimini Workshops / Orplid Glassworks, Austria / England, designed about 1925, possibly made 1940's.
Physical description
Lampworked dancing figure with a clear base, black figure with green hair and red clothing all in glass.
Dimensions
  • Width: 9.3cm
  • Height: 7.6cm
Object history
Fritz Lampl (1892 - 1995) was the artistic director of Bimini in Vienna. In 1938 he emigrated to England and founded Orplid Glass. This and the other figures acquired in this group (c.21 to 24- 1995) had been bought by the vendor from a collector who had acquired them in this country during the 1960s and 70s. Though Lampl continued essentially the same production in both Austria and England it seems likely that these were produced in London. The figures were shown in a small display of Bimini / Orplid work in the V&A, July 1995 – Jan 1996
Bimini / Orplid scrapbook in Ceramics dept library.
Waltraud Neuwirth, Bimini, Vienna, 1992.
Bibliographic references
  • Bimin / Orplid scrapbook in Ceramics dept. library.
  • Waltraud Neuwirth, Bimini, Vienna, 1992.
Other number
9661 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Accession number
C.24-1995

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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