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Loetz Austria Pampas Art Glass Vase Gold Blue #864408

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Loetz Austria Pampas Art Glass Vase Gold Blue #864408
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With nice blue green iridized finish and a tri-sided twisted form with a ruffled mouth top, ground and polished pontil. ****NOTE: Email for more images.

Background:

Most Loetz glass was commissioned by outside designers, and the best pieces were produced by the union of Loetz and Austrian designers. Many of these designers were aligned with the Vienna Secession Art movement which included Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffman. Loetz combines subtle but innovative forms with very advanced techniques in the use of color and artistic methods such as featering. The principal staff designer for Loetz between 1903 and 1914 was Maria Kirschner, who was born in Prague but studied and practiced in Paris and Berlin. Kirschner favored subtle forms of elegant simplicity with little decoration beyond applied handles. Kirschner's work contrasted with the French art nouveau forms, including gooseneck vases and pinched, organic shapes, sometimes applied with tendrils of iridescent glass produced from the late 1890s. Kirschner designed more than 200 works for Loetz, some of which are signed with her monogram--not to be confused with Moser's mark of capital letters MK engraved. Her forms and scale are similar to the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany, whose career in glass making parallels that of Loetz and whose style shows a clear Austrian influence, perhaps learned as early as 1889 when Tiffany admired Loetz's display at the Paris Exposition. It is widely believed that glass workers from Loetz and ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Very Good, no chips, cracks or nicks.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:Circa 1905</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:6.5</td></tr>



<tr><td>Title:Loetz Austria Pampas Art Glass Vase Gold Blue</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Long Island, NY</td></tr>
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