Tazza

Designed in 1914 for the Cologne Werkbund Exhibition, manufactured by Loetz Witwe, Klostermühle, clear glass, decorated between the layers with trailed silver threads, black overlay, the bowl decorated with an acid-etched geometric pattern, tension crack to bottom of bowl, the underside of foot with matted carved signature Prof. Hoffmann, height 11.7 cm, diametre 13 cm.
Literature: Ricke/Ploil, Lötz, Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940, Munich 1989, vol. 1, p. 267, contemporary illustration.