Goblet with fish-shaped stem, before 1888
"Light sea-coloured" glass, optic-mould blown, tooled, cobalt-blue glass applications
(H x Ø)33,8 x 12,4 cm
Place of originEhrenfeld
About the workFrom about 1880 until around 1905, Oskar Rauter, the director of the Ehrenfeld glass factory in Cologne, ran his own “Department for Artistic Products”. In the 1880s, the division took inspiration from historical glassware. This goblet is a free imitation of Venetian glasses with dragon stems from the seventeenth century. The net decoration of the foot and goblet from that time is echoed here in a much more restrained manner as an embossed pattern, and the fish is largely a new invention. The use of a single colour throughout is also a Ehrenfeld addition; the originals were generally colourless.
AccessionAcquisition with funds of the Stiftung Glasmuseum Hentrich, 2018
Inventory numberGl 2018-16
