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Aegir Bordeaux glass | Christie`s
Estimated value: 7000-9000 GBP
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Designed by Architects
Sales date: 2003-10-08
Location:
London
Lot number: 31
Design
Peter BehrensYear 1905
Manufacturer Rheinische Glashütten A.G.
Architonic id
4102484
Designed 1905, manufactured by Rheinische Glashütten A.G., crimson and clear glass.
7 1/8in. (18cm.) height
Of strikingly accomplished stereometric construction, this design is amongst the rarest of designs that Behrens conceived for the Rheinische Glashütten. Examples are known to exist in only two collections; Three (non-Bordeaux) glasses are in the collection of the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld (formerly the collection of Ernst Osthaus, Hagen), and the present example. A completely clear example is in the collection of the Wolfsonian Collection, Miami.
Lit: Karl Ernst (ed.), Das Schöne und der Alltag: Deutsches Museum für Kunst in Handel und Gewerbe 1909-19, Krefeld, 1997, p.88, pl.GL07 (illustration of three other glasses from same series)
7 1/8in. (18cm.) height
Of strikingly accomplished stereometric construction, this design is amongst the rarest of designs that Behrens conceived for the Rheinische Glashütten. Examples are known to exist in only two collections; Three (non-Bordeaux) glasses are in the collection of the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld (formerly the collection of Ernst Osthaus, Hagen), and the present example. A completely clear example is in the collection of the Wolfsonian Collection, Miami.
Lit: Karl Ernst (ed.), Das Schöne und der Alltag: Deutsches Museum für Kunst in Handel und Gewerbe 1909-19, Krefeld, 1997, p.88, pl.GL07 (illustration of three other glasses from same series)
