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This GermanStangenglas (pole glass)drinking vessel is from Fritz Heckert, 1890-1900.Blown ofa vibrant translucent amber topaz coloured glass.The bottom of the tapered round shape is of solid amber glass with decorative air bubbles.The rim is cut and the bottom of the paperweight base is entirely cut and polished.Beautifully decorated with hand painted polychrome enameling of a German historical sculptor named Peter Vischer, 1460-1529.
Measurements :8-5/8\" tall.The rim 2\" diameterThe base is 2-1/8\" diameter.
This researched information is appreciated and kindly provided fromhistorismus_glas:
Peter Vischer\'s surname had an earlier variation of the family name Fischer, and were the most famous pewterers, brass and coppersmiths in Germany during the Renaissance. Bechstein. To quantify, Nuremberg had the greatest concentration of pewterers in Germany. The woodcut portrait appeared in Ludwig Bechstein’s “Zweihundert deutsche Männer in Bildnissen und Lebensbeschreibungen.” (Leipzig, Georg Wigand’s Verlag, 1854), 4th entry (not paginated). The original source of the woodcut is not known, but undoubtedly originates from the 16th C.Indeed, this Stangenglas (pole glass), a drinking vessel, was produced by the Petersdorfer Glashütte Fritz Heckert, in Petersdorf, Silesia, German Empire. The decoration designer was undoubtedly Oskar (Ottokar) Jummel, Fritz Heckert’s brother-in-law and architect from Leipzig. Jummel was Heckert’s most prolific designer from the late 1870’s to the late 1890’s. Such Porträtgläser (portrait glasses) were produced in a very large variety and utilizing a large number of different glass patterns, almost exclusively drinking vessels, between 1884-1889. Given this time period, the quartz crystal, which was mined locally in the Riesengebirge mountain range, would have been produced by Josephinenhütte in neighboring Schreiberhau, and decorated by Heckert’s enamelers.
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