teapot
- Museum number
- 2014,8024.118.a-c
- Description
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Teapot; clear fire-proof glass, with glass infuser; mould-blown body, free-blown spout and pressed glass lid (b) and strainer (c).
- Production date
- 1955-1960
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 8.20 centimetres (of lid)
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Diameter: 7 centimetres (strainer)
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Height: 11.50 centimetres (strainer)
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Height: 13.50 centimetres (with lid)
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Height: 12.30 centimetres (without lid and strainer)
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Width: 27 centimetres (maximum)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This design by Löffelhardt won the 1957 Gold Medal XI at the Triennale Milan and the 1960 Grand Prix XII. It was based on an earlier glass teapot designed by Wagenfeld in 1930 for Schott & Genossen (see museum no. 1980, 1209.1). References to and illustrations of this model can be found in the following publications:
G. Lueg, 'Design im 20. Jahrhundert, Katalogue des Museums für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln', Colonge, 1989, no. 388, p. 232.
W. Scheiffele, 'Wilhelm Wagenfeld und die moderne Glasindustrie', Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1994, p. 175 (erroneously dated 1956).
C. Burschel, 'Heinrich Löffelhardt industrieformen der 1950er bis 1960er jahre aus porzellan und glas', Hauschild, Bremen, 2004, pp. 95, 474, 484, 499, 511, 536 and 582.
K. Koivisto (ed) , 'European Glass in use', exhibition catalogue, Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki 1994, pp. 14-41, no. 47, described as turn mould-blown borosilicate glass.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2014,8024.118.a-c
