Fritz Heckert Art Nouveau Iridescent Art Glass Vase

4.5 inch iridescent gold vase with hand painted Art Nouveau style leaves, in gilt and etched blue, slight flared rim. Beautiful color
Located in Warmbrunn, Silesia, the Heckert company played an important role in the Bohemian glass industry. Founded in 1866 by Fritz Heckert as a refinery of mirrors and carved glass pieces of the chandeliers, the company quickly expanded into the hollow glass enamelling obtained from nearby Josephinenhütte. Until 1889, Heckert specialized in replicas of the enameled glass of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, decorated in the “old German” style. In 1889, he acquired his own glass factory and began producing iridescent glass decorated in the Art Nouveau style.