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Loetz Witwe

LOETZ, ALSO KNOWN AS LOETZ WITWE, was one of the largest producers numerically of European art glass. This major Austrian factory is better known for their efforts in the field of iridescent glass than in the cameo field. Plates 3, 4, and Plate 5 illustrate the allover well-designed decorations which at their best are only on a par with the works of the great French cameo artists. However, representative examples in cameo of this factory are extremely scarce. Possibly of greater beauty are Plates 1 and 2 in which the silver overlay was applied in an unusually beautiful design, well in keeping with the finest in this particular branch of the Art Nouveau field. Iridescent glass from the Loetz factory is quite amply covered in our previous book Art Glass Nouveau.