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1916

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1936

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Drawing, Designs for Drinking Vessels, Covered Dishes, and Candle Holders

This is a Drawing. It was manufactured by J. & L. Lobmeyr. It is dated ca. 1926 and we acquired it in 1958. Its medium is graphite on tracing paper, lined. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This drawing of eight vessels is carefully composed to illustrate that the pieces are intended as a set and to provide comparative scale. Ranging from water glasses to finger bowls and candlesticks, the striking and softly angular glass set would have been a focal point on a dinner table. This drawing may have been produced in conjunction with a custom order placed by Miss Agnes Miles Carpenter.

It is credited Gift of Frederick G. Weisser.

  • Ambassador Vase
  • mould-blown crystal ("muslin glass").
  • Museum purchase through gift of Georgiana L. McClellan.
  • 1958-98-42
  • Object ID #18424121
  • mouth-blown crystal ("muslin glass").
  • Museum purchase through gift of Georgiana L. McClellan.
  • 1958-98-4-a,b
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  • Ambassador Candlestick
  • mouth-blown crystal ("muslin glass").
  • Museum purchase through gift of Georgiana L. McClellan.
  • 1958-98-15

Our curators have highlighted 5 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

  • Ambassador Finger Bowl
  • mouth-blown crystal ("muslin glass").
  • Museum purchase through gift of Georgiana L. McClellan.
  • 1958-98-18
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  • Ambassador Wine Glass
  • mouth-blown crystal ("muslin glass").
  • Museum purchase through gift of Georgiana L. McClellan.
  • 1958-98-36
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Its dimensions are

H x W: 29.2 × 99.1 cm (11 1/2 in. × 39 in.) Frame H x W x D: 51.6 × 122.6 × 5.1 cm (20 5/16 in. × 48 1/4 in. × 2 in.)

It is signed

Signed in graphite, lower right corner: J. L Lobmeyr

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite above each object, reading from left to right: N°1; N°2; N°3; N°4; N°5 ; in center N°6; above N°7; N°8; below each object: Mineral Water Glasses; Water Glasses; Finger Bowls; Ice Cups; Covered Boxes 11nd Size; Covered Boxes 1st Size; Candle-Sticks A; Candle-Sticks B

Cite this object as

Drawing, Designs for Drinking Vessels, Covered Dishes, and Candle Holders; Manufactured by J. & L. Lobmeyr (Austria); USA; graphite on tracing paper, lined; H x W: 29.2 × 99.1 cm (11 1/2 in. × 39 in.) Frame H x W x D: 51.6 × 122.6 × 5.1 cm (20 5/16 in. × 48 1/4 in. × 2 in.); Gift of Frederick G. Weisser; 1958-77-2

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s and Glass of the Avant-Garde: From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus.

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