Notes:
Dimensions including mat are 41 x 51 cm.
Design drawing for two vases with covered urn in center. Vase on left is blue with white decoration; vase on right is maroon with white decoration. Covered urn in center is yellowish-gold with long panels surrounding body. Each piece labeled, respectively, "15218", "15213", and "15217", below in black ink.
"CMG-372" written in black ink on lower right corner.
Buchholz and Zelt was a firm in New York City that imported glass and silver from Bohemia. This drawing is part of a collection of drawings including cut, engraved, and art deco designs, created by the firm, presumably for the US market, and sent to Bohemia to be made into glass or silver. Many of the designs were inspired by objects in European museums. Most of the drawings are in the Bohemian nineteenth century style and a minority are stamped with the name of the glass company involved, such as Mühlhaus, Oertel, and Harrach. Buchholz and Zelt would likely have placed their own label on the glass.
This item is in the Buchholz and Zelt collection.
Buchholz and Zelt collection
Sent to West Lake Conservators Ltd. June 2015 for conservation. Hinged with Japanese tissue paper V-hinges and wheat starch paste.
Similar drawings can be found at The Metropolitan Museum and Novy Bor.
Flood mud present along edges. Bleedthrough on verso from other design.
Paper is very brittle.
Drawings for objects on separate, previously loose paper.
