Antique Austrian Art Nouveau Loetz Cobalt Blue Papillon Art Glass Vase 1900

Antique Art Nouveau Austrian Loetz cobalt blue "Papillon" art glass vase, circa 1900.This wonderful Loetz mouthblown art glass vase made of irridescent glass and the pattern named Papillion after the French word for butterfly, as the glass resembles the color & pattern of a butterfly's wings.The vase of bottle shaped form with a flared circular mouth and a tall neck rising from a 'mallet' shaped base with four dimples, the vase is mouthblown and has a ground pontil mark to the base where the vase was removed from the glassblowers pipe.Condition is excellent, this is a very fine example of an antique Loetz Papillon art glass vase Johann Loetz Witwe (also known as Joh. Loetz Witwe and Joh. Lötz Witwe) was an art glass manufacturer in Klostermühle (Klášterský Mlýn, now part of Rejštejn) in southwestern Bohemia, Austria-Hungary and then Czechoslovakia. Johann Loetz's works are among the most outstanding examples of Art Nouveau.In 1836, Johann Eisner established a glassworks in the Sout