New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Ewer with stopper

Manufacturer Ernst Pullme Meistersdorf

CultureBohemian

Date1919

MediumBlown glass | Enamel

DimensionsOverall: 12 in. (30.5 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)
Base: 3 9/16 in. (9.1 cm)

InscribedMarked gilt script (now faded) across polished pontil: "Ernst Pullme-Meistersdorf/Bohemia/1919".

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.6602

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 117, Study Gallery Case 2, Section 1 Sh4

DescriptionEwer and stopper. EWER: Clear, oval on a round foot with an attached plain handle and a triangularly fluted rim. Heavily enameled 3.75" thick central band with a multi-color stylized scroll and leaf design with a background of fine mesh-like gilt lines. Neck and rest of bottom is scale-like gilt, each with a central dot of different color with a half circle white line around it. Band of the same scale around the foot with an inner band of gilt with green dots. Gilt rim and band on handle. STOPPER: Hollow steeple shape facet cut, with these outlined with gilt.