Four Lobmeyr flared cylindrical tumblers after designs by Michael Powolny

CIRCA 1914, ETCHED MONOGRAMS TO BASES

细节

Four Lobmeyr flared cylindrical tumblers after designs by Michael Powolny
Circa 1914, etched monograms to bases
Engraved with circular cartouches of children representing the Four Seasons, Spring sowing seed, Summer cutting corn, Autumn hunting with a hound and Winter skating while a brazier burns, the reverses engraved with appropriate scattered flowers, ears of wheat or snowflakes, the cartouches and rims edged with stylised garlands
3½ in. (9 cm.) high (4)

拍品专文

Cf. the two tumblers designed by the same artist sold in these Rooms on 17 November 1992, lot 206.

Powolny trained as a sculptor and ceramic artist at the Fachschule fr Tonindustrie in Znaim and at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna. He made for several designs for engraved glass for J. & L. Lobmeyr between about 1914 and 1925. See Judy Rudoe, Decorative Arts 1850-1950, pl. 106 for a tumbler in the British Museum and for a goblet with similar roundels, shown at the Paris Exposition International des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in 1925, see the catalogue, Vol. V, pl. LXXXVIII.