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Ąsotis su šaldymo indu sidabruotas, antikvarinis, raižytu stiklu. Gamintojas WMF (Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik) Vokietija. Aukštis 28, apatinis skersmuo 17 cm. Kaina 87

WMF
produced glass for more then 100 years, their period of triumph in glass only
lasted from 1926 to 1936. WMF, or the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik, was
essentially a metal works. They started making glass in 1883 when a glass house
was built at Geisslingen near Stuttgart. The company was, and still is, a
producer of metal tableware, particularly silvered flatware, and they began by
producing their own glass inserts for cruet stands, open salts, cookie jars and
similar articles. Glass was never a core business – metal was. The original
1883 glass house was destroyed during the First World War and a new, more
modern facility opened in 1922. At first, production of inserts continued as
before, but soon pieces decorated with cut olives and facets left the
factory. The young glass designer Karl Wiedmann perfected the technique of
iridized surfaces and the resulting „MYRA”-Kristall entered
production in 1926..The same year also saw the beginning of the first
„IKORA” glass. Both types of glass continued to be produced until
around 1936, when production of art-glass ceased. 
Although production of Ikora
glass resumed after the war, the art glass lines never achieved the same
quality, or inspiration of design, or marketshare as before, and production was
discontinued in the 1950s. Post war glass production focused more on the
modernistic designs of Wilhelm Wagenfeld. Finally, in 1984 WMF’s entire glass
production ceased. Little is known about the other glass production at WMF
during this time, although it is known that glass based on historic examples
was produced until the early fifties: lidded jars, tankards and various
drinking vessels with cut decoration. Cut-to-clear pieces in the Bohemian style
were also on the program, and these were of such good quality that nowadays
identification is only possible if the original paper label is present.)