Description:

This vase came into the museum as Chinese but its baluster shape and marbled finish suggests that it is European. The finish seems to have been made using a technique called lithyalin, patented by Friedrich Egermann (1777-1864) in Bohemia (today’s Czech Republic) during the 1820s. Its popularity lasted only into the 1850s after which production stopped.

Glass
Height: 16.2 cm, diameter: 7.5 cm, neck diameter: 6.3 cm

Creator: Unknown

Date: Possibly Czech Republic, about 1828-1855

Copyright: Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

Object ID:N4732