Bohemian Jugendstil Glass Footed Bowl c 1905

Description

Heading : Bohemian Jugendstil Glass Footed Bowl c 1905

Date : c 1890-1915
Origin : Bohemia – around Steinschönau (now Kamenický Šenov)
Bowl Features : Stylised fruit. leaves and cornucopia – enamelled in black with gold highlights; further gilt embellishment to rim and foot
Marks : marked to base FS within a circle – Steinschönau FachSchule or similar
Type : Footed bowl
Size : 12.0 cm height. 17.4 cm diameter
Condition :  Excellent; enamelling is virtually complete; one or two minor inclusions and three tiny incised tooling marks to the underside of the bowl
Restoration : None
Weight : 570 grams

Additional Information : This region played host to many of the leading lights of Bohemian glass manufacturing around the Fin de Siecle – Oertel. Beckert. Haida. Steinschönau themselves. all of whom produced examples of this ‘Schwarzlotdekor’ material