Vase
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Glass and bronze
DATES
ca. 1900
DIMENSIONS
14 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (36.8 x 16.5 x 14 cm) (show scale)
MARKINGS
On bottom: etched "LOETZ/AUSTRIA"
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
2007.41.5
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the Estate of Dr. Eleanor Z. Wallace
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Tall molded green cylindrical vase that tapers to a narrow neck with a pronounced flared onion-shaped neck with flared rim. Surface with overall "alligator" effect with some iridescence to lower body. Mounted in a gold-patinated metal stand raised on four double-scrolling feet with two large opposed arms that swell out from base and meet at metal ring around lower neck of vase and then flare out again and meet with clamps at rim. Front and back of mount base with tripartite floral element that curves out and then back to support bottom of vase. Similar tripartite floral forms at sides of neck below rim.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Johann Loetz-Witwe Glassworks (Klostermuehle, Bohemia, Czech Republic, 1836â1932). Vase, ca. 1900. Glass and bronze, 14 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (36.8 x 16.5 x 14 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Dr. Eleanor Z. Wallace, 2007.41.5. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.2007.41.5.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, CUR.2007.41.5.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2012
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