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LOETZ
The Art Nouveau period was the golden age for Loetz glass and it was the founder’s grandson, Max Ritter von Spaun, who guided the firm both financially and artistically through its most successful period. It was Spaun who pushed through the development of iridescence and he took out patents in 1895 and 1898 for metallic lustres and colours. Loetz was awarded a Grand Prix at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1900.
The silver appliqué was mostly added in the United States and the two most successful companies were the Alvin Manufacturing Company on Long Island and a group of smaller silversmiths who worked together as the International Silver Company of Meriden, Connecticut.
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION (LOTS 341-348)
A LOETZ IRIDESCENT GLASS VASE WITH SILVER APPLIQUE
CIRCA 1900
Details
A LOETZ IRIDESCENT GLASS VASE WITH SILVER APPLIQUE
CIRCA 1900
The pale green glass body covered with 'Delph' coloured iridescence, overlaid in silver with a swan swimming amidst water lilies and bulrushes, silver stamped Sterling and feint mark attributed to the International Silver Company of Meriden, Connecticut
12 ½ in. (31.7 cm.) high
CIRCA 1900
The pale green glass body covered with 'Delph' coloured iridescence, overlaid in silver with a swan swimming amidst water lilies and bulrushes, silver stamped Sterling and feint mark attributed to the International Silver Company of Meriden, Connecticut
12 ½ in. (31.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Fine Decorative Arts & Design from 1870, Sotheby's Olympia, Private Collection, 9th September 2003, lot 17
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