Lötz Witwe

  • Title May green bowl Cytisus
  • Date Klostermühle, Bohemia, c. 1902
  • Dimensions Diameter 18 cm, Height 11 cm.
  • Provenance Private collection, USA
  • Provenance Lötz Witwe Decor: Maigrün Cytisus, 1902
  • Literature Ricke/Ploil, Lötz. Böhmisches Glas 1880 - 1940. Werkmonographie, vol. I, Munich 1989, p. 157, no. 151 - comparable shape , and p. 153, no. 146 and p. 155, no. 148 - same decor in different colours
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Vases, as well as the rarer bowls featuring the Cytisus-design (laburnum) represent the Glasshouse’s most creative era. This striking and interestingly rhythmic design, closely related to the contemporary Viennese painting such as Klimt’s Beethoven-Cycle from 1902, was almost exclusively used for objects with lively wavy contours that often extended into the space through dynamic curves.