19 October 2018
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Art Glass decorations
This year, the small Christmas show at Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel (SWMB) is dedicated to a very special and little-known tree decoration: so-called Art Glass from the period around 1920.
This year, the small Christmas show at Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel (SWMB) is dedicated to a very special and little-known tree decoration: so-called Art Glass from the period around 1920.
These hollow glass animals, which normally stood on dressers as knickknacks, were equipped with melted-on glass hooks or metal fasteners around the year 1920 and made as Christmas decorations. Such Art Deco decorations, usually made of white translucent glass, were freely blown in the small German village of Lauscha and the surrounding towns. A wide variety of animals, such as dogs, geese, deer, cranes, elephants, and giraffes, were also made of colored translucent glass with stripes or reflective glass. Sparkly and textured glass, which were commonly used in traditional Christmas decorations until that time, were consciously avoided - the point was to purposefully emphasize the beauty of the material, the glass.
More details can be found at www.spielzeug-welten-museum-basel.ch.