Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

"Ariadne And The Panther" Vase

Manufacturer Franz Paul Zach (1819-1881)

Manufacturer Unknown

CultureBohemian

Dateca. 1850

MediumBlown glass | Cut glass | Engraved glass

DimensionsOverall: 12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm)
Overall, Rim: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
Base: 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number0.1928

Not on view

DescriptionPedestaled vase/tankard of blown clear glass cased with blue glass. It is blown, cased glass, cut and engraved. The base is cut with two rows of bulls eyes and a row of panels. The bottom of the cylindrical body is a row of sawteeth and on the rim is a band of blue. The acid-finished body has a blue cameo design of leaves and a thistle on the back and Ariadne reclining on a lion on the front. After a monument by Thorwaldsen in Leipsig.

Published References_Journal of Glass_, vol. 7 (1965), p. 129 (#43); _500 Jahre Glaskunst_ by Kleisse and von Saldern, #241 (almost identical style; different monument).