Water Pitcher (Austro-Hungarian Empire (Klostermühle))

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Water Pitcher (Austro-Hungarian Empire (Klostermühle))

This is a Water pitcher. It was designed by Karl Massanetz and manufactured by J. & L. Lobmeyr.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from J. & L. Lobmeyr GmbH as part of Making Design.

We acquired it in 2009. Its medium is mouth-blown colorless glass, black ink feather-pen drawing with gilding. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Massanetz’s water pitcher is of blown glass with applied handles. The surface is decorated with black-pen painting and gold decoration, a technique refined in Steinschönau, in northern Bohemia. The intricate, lace-inspired design radiates symmetrically from the middle of the body, creating a kaleidoscope of pattern and detail.

Enameled glass pitcher with blue, white, and gold foliate design, possibly of Near Eastern influence.

Pitcher (Austria), ca. 1877
enameled and gilt glass.
Museum purchase through gift of Dale and Doug Anderson, Anonymous Donor,....
2009-18-162

Tall, slightly flared footless vase of clear glass with ten paneled sides. On two opposite sides are handles in form of graduated satin-finished scrolls with slightly oblique grooving at edges.

Beauvais Vase, 1931
press-molded glass.
Gift of Jacques Jugeat.
1969-126-6

Enameled with blue, white, and gold foliate design, possibly of Near Eastern influence.

Footed Dish (Austria), ca. 1877–87
enameled and gilt glass.
Museum purchase through gift of Dale and Doug Anderson, Anonymous Donor,....
2009-18-160

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Circular dish with deep concave center. Outer edge with seven chased lobes. Wide flat border rises in curve toward center, chased with seven foliated poppy stems with seven blossoms, seven buds, four seed pods, three butterflies, and two flies, all in high relief. Stems continue into recessed center as stylized swirls and lobes. Textured hammered surface visible in all flat areas, smooth on central lobes. Reverse of dish heavily patinated.

Dish (England), 1907–08
silver.
Museum purchase from General Acquisition Endowment.
1985-64-1

Pierced and shaped circular bowl, in diaper pattern. Bowl engraved with a sailing ship near a river bank surrounded by foliate scrolls. Stem with coin topped by twisted section below a windmill terminal with revolving wings.

Spoon (Netherlands), late 19th–early 20th century
silver.
Bequest of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1926-37-167

Mouth-blown crystal plate, with black pen painting and gold decoration in the manner of the Steinschonau school of Northern Bohemia.

Dessert Plate (Austria), 1913–14
mouth-blown colorless glass, black ink feather-pen drawing.
Museum purchase through gift of Dale and Doug Anderson, Anonymous Donor,....
2009-18-85

Cite this object as

Water Pitcher (Austro-Hungarian Empire (Klostermühle)); Designed by Karl Massanetz (Czech, 1890–1918); mouth-blown colorless glass, black ink feather-pen drawing with gilding; 2009-18-86

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Making Design.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2E1kF/
Accession Number 2009-18-86
Object ID 18731893