TWO LOBMEYR ENGRAVED TUMBLERS after designs by Michael Powolny, engraved and acid-etched with a putto carrying a pear branch, an apple at his feet, another blowing a horn with a hound beside and another seated beneath fruiting-vine, within circular scalloped cartouches and with scattered flowers and foliage between, with a scalloped border to the rim, and with an elf playing the mandolin within a similar cartouche and with scattered flower-sprays, 9cm. high, circa 1914 (2)

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TWO LOBMEYR ENGRAVED TUMBLERS after designs by Michael Powolny, engraved and acid-etched with a putto carrying a pear branch, an apple at his feet, another blowing a horn with a hound beside and another seated beneath fruiting-vine, within circular scalloped cartouches and with scattered flowers and foliage between, with a scalloped border to the rim, and with an elf playing the mandolin within a similar cartouche and with scattered flower-sprays, 9cm. high, circa 1914 (2)

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Powolny trained as a sculptor and ceramic artist at the Fachschule für Tonindustrie in Znaim and at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna where he taught from 1909. He made several designs for engraved glass for J. & L. Lobmeyr between about 1914 and 1925 including a series of tumblers similar to the present lot. See Judy Rudoe, Decorative Arts 1850-1950, pl. 106 (cat. 244) for another tumbler from this series in the British Museum and for a goblet with similar roundels shown at the Paris Exhibition, 1925, see Catalogue, 'Exposition International des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, 1925' vol. V, pl. LXXXVIII

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