Octopus Vase
Manufacturer: Johann Lötz Witwe (Austrian, 1836-1947)
Date: about 1887-1889
Dimensions:
H: 25 1/2 in. (64.8 cm)
Medium: Glass; mold-blown, encased, tooled, gilded.
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 2006.173A-C
Label Text:The “tentacles” of the pattern on this covered vase were achieved by carefully controlling and shaping trapped bubbles of air within the glass. The vase, along with others in the “Octopus pattern”, won Lötz a Grand Prix (Grand Prize) at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1889 (the cameo Sunflower vase by Thomas Webb & Sons in this gallery was also displayed at the Paris Exposition).
DescriptionBlown of opalescent glass overlaid in reddish-brown, the body is decorated with optic-blown arabesque-shaped air bubbles embedded and blown-out in colorless glass, the whole gilt with small, spiraling ornamentation and acanthus leaves, above an applied foot and detachable finial and cover.
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