485 - Rare wine glass featuring mythical creatures

Rare wine glass featuring mythical creatures Rare wine glass featuring mythical animals by Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel (form), Carl or Paul Thomas (decoration) for J. & L. Lobmeyr, Vienna, before 1914. Colorless, silk-matte etched glass with black solder painting. A zigzag wheel pattern on the stem; stylized depictions of mythical animals on the bowl. H. 18.2 cm. This wine glass was exhibited at the Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne in 1914 and at the Austrian Arts, Crafts, and Fashion Exhibition in Stockholm in 1916. See Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, vol. XXXV, Oct. 1914–March 1915, p. 162; PAZAUREK, Gustav E./SPIEGL, Walter, Glass of the 20th Century. Art Nouveau – Art Deco, Munich 1983, p. 107, fig. 191 (attributed there to Michael Powolny or the Powolny School); NOEVER, Peter (eds.), J. & L. Lobmeyr, Between Vision and Reality. Glasses from the MAK Collection. 20th/21st Century, Munich/Berlin/London/New York 2009, p. 76ff, fig. 38c; Vienna Secession and Modernism 1900–1925, Moravian Gallery in Brno, 2005, p. 74, fig. 119.