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Ambassador Vase
This is a vase. It is dated 1926 and we acquired it in 1958. Its medium is mould-blown crystal ("muslin glass"). It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Following her visit to the 1925 Paris Exposition, Agnes Miles Carpenter ordered a group of Lobmeyr’s Ambassador glassware, presumably for use on the Jules Bouy–designed dining room furniture seen in drawings nearby. Designed by Oswald Haerdtl, the pieces helped define the era’s interest in sphere and cone forms. An American’s commission of an Austrian designer and company, shown in Paris, underscores not only the nexus of creative activity in Vienna’s cross-media design collaborations but also the exposure Paris gave them.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Georgiana L. McClellan.
- Glass (Austria)
- glass.
- Gift of Daniel Morris and Denis Gallion.
- 1993-134-5
- Cobalt blue series Vase
- mouth-blown crystal.
- Museum purchase through gift of Dale and Doug Anderson, Anonymous Donor,....
- 2009-18-118
- No. 240 Wine Decanter With Stopper
- mouth-blown crystal ("muslin glass").
- Museum purchase through gift of Dale and Doug Anderson, Anonymous Donor,....
- 2009-18-110-a,b
Our curators have highlighted 4 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Drawing, Designs for Drinking Vessels, Covered Dishes, and Candle Holders
- graphite on tracing paper, lined.
- Gift of Frederick G. Weisser.
- 1958-77-2
- Ambassador Bonbonnière And Cover
- mouth-blown crystal ("muslin glass").
- Museum purchase through gift of Georgiana L. McClellan.
- 1958-98-4-a,b
- Drawing, Rendering of Door Wall Elevation of Dining Room, Agnes Miles...
- graphite, color crayon on tracing paper.
- Gift of the Estate of Agnes M. Carpenter.
- 1958-133-5
Its dimensions are
H x diam.: 53.3 x 12.7 cm (21 x 5 in.)
Cite this object as
Ambassador Vase; Austria; mould-blown crystal ("muslin glass"); H x diam.: 53.3 x 12.7 cm (21 x 5 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Georgiana L. McClellan; 1958-98-42
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
