WMF Art Nouveau Green Glass Decanter 1910

This is a fine example of the quality produced by WMF during the late 19th early 20th century when the Art Nouveau was at its peak.

This is a vibrant emerald green glass, upside down trumpet shaped 'bottle' encased in a high gauge and well sculpted organic art nouveau frame of high polished pewter, which was intended to, and does, appear like silver. There are nice details to the design, the base is lifted by four neat feet, the neck detail is modeled as a drape gathered under the lip and folded through a ring albeit the design is a solid profile casting. The stopper is cork encased in a decorated pewter cap. The swept handle flows seamlessly into the base decoration.

The mark is on the side of the stopper , is visible under a glass and is the ostrich over WMF and places the item circa 1910

The piece stands at its height overall 29 cm, and width 14 cm with the base only width/diameter being 12 cm. The unpacked weight is 556 gms.

Condition is excellent, no damage of any sort to report and it is bright and clean the only note is the cork is roughly 120 years old and shrunk in that time, we have inspected the cork and it doesn't appear to show any sign of the decanter having been used

WMF 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.