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

Drinking Glass

ca. 1904 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drinking glass, Piechowice (Petersdorf), Poland, Fritz Heckert, decoration designed by Ludwig Sütterlin, ca. 1904


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Glass, enamelled and gilded
Brief description
Drinking glass, Piechowice (Petersdorf), Poland, Fritz Heckert, decoration designed by Ludwig Sütterlin, ca. 1904
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.3cm
Gallery label
The stem and bowl are in the shape of a flower. Glasses like these were made at a number of different glassworks in Germany and Bohemia and also in Sweden at the Kosta glassworks. It is difficult to identify any one glassworks with certainty.
Bibliographic references
  • Hilschenz, H: Das glas des Jugendstil, Dusseldorf, 1973
  • Sefania Zelasko, Fritz Heckert: Kunstglas Industrie 1866-1923, Passau 2012, pp. 238-239, illustrates similar glasses and the design drawing for the shape.
Other number
9491 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.392-1975

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
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