Fabulous Beast
Figure (Unicorn Under Sapling)
ca. 1925 (designed), 1940s (made)
ca. 1925 (designed), 1940s (made)
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A glass unicorn standing by a sapling, lampworked clear, blue, green, purple and yellow glass.
Object details
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| Title | Fabulous Beast (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Glass, lampworked |
| Brief description | "Fabulous Beast", glass unicorn standing by a sapling, lampworked, Fritz Lampl, Bimini Workshops or Orplid Glassworks, Austria or England, designed about 1925, manufactured possibly 1940's. |
| Physical description | A glass unicorn standing by a sapling, lampworked clear, blue, green, purple and yellow glass. |
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| 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. |
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| Other number | 9664 - Glass gallery number |
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| Accession number | C.21-1995 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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