Italian long chain with 18k gold hammered links and set with 9 count gem quality naturally tumbled turquoise beads, marked: 20 (maker’s assigned number, VR for Verona, 750 for 18k gold, c. 1970’s
Length: 50 inches Width of the turquoise beads: 3/8 of an inch
Lötz Witwe / Hans Ofner Austrian Art glass vase c. 1920
HANS OFNER attr. (1880-1939) Austria
JOH. LÖTZ WITWE Klostermühle, Bohemia
Vase c. 1920
Handblown cobalt glass with undulating metallic chartreuse bands, four applied glass teardrops at the rim
For related examples by Ofner see: Innen Dekoration, “Lötz glass by Hans Ofner,” 1906.
For the identical glass technique see: Lötz: Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940, Vol. 1, Helmut Ricke and Ernst Ploil (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1989), p. 294, ill. no. 357.
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