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On display
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Drinking Glass

ca. 1904 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Fritz Heckert (manufacturer)
Sütterlin, Ludwig (designer)
Place of origin
Petersdorf (made)

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

Object details

Categories
Glass
Drinking
Object type
Drinking glass
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
Style
19TH CONT
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, Silesia and Bohemia and also in Sweden at the Kosta glassworks.
Bibliographic references
  • Hilschenz, H: Das glas des Jugendstil, Dusseldorf, 1973
  • Sefania Zelasko, Fritz Heckert: Kunstglas Industrie 1866-1923, Passau 2012, p. 239, illustrates similar glasses and the design drawing for the shape.
Other number
9491 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
CIRC.390-1975

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O6740/drinking-glass-sütterlin-ludwig/
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