Bottle with stopper

Ceramics and Glass Collection

Accession Nr.: 1146.a-b
Manufacturer: Henrik Giergl company (Budapest)
Place of production: Budapest
Inscription: alján papírcímke 'Giergl Henrik Budapest' felirattal és
GH monogrammal
Materials: glass
Techniques: mould-blown; painted in enamel
Dimensions:
height: 27 cm
base diameter: 9,5 cm
opening diameter: 5 cm
hosszúság (dugó): 11 cm
átmérő (dugó): 4 cm
The pear-shaped body is divided into six sections it continues in a long, elongated neck and a splaying top rim. The sections are decorated with lattice and Bourbon-lily motifs in Neo-Rococo cartouches, painted in high white enamel. Gilt spots enrich the juncture of the lattice. The stopper is also blown and hollow its ball-shaped body is decorated with ornaments identical with those on the body, concerning motif and technique, (see the donation register of Henrik Giergl, 1898. IM Archives 482/1: Vizes palack, 6 osztályosan formázott alakban, fehér zománcfestéssel, rococostylusban. /Water bottle, divided into 6 fields, with white enamel painting, in Rococo style./).

Literature

  • a kiállítást rendezte: Batári Ferenc, Vadászi Erzsébet: Historizmus és eklektika. Az európai iparművészet stíluskorszakai. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1992. - Nr. 314. (Varga Vera)