RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Brožková, Helena
A1 Sedláčková, Hedvika
T1 Medieval Glass in the Collection of Vojtěch Lanna and in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague
JF Staletá Praha
YR 2020
VO 36
IS 2
SP 37
OP 59
DO 10.56112/sp.2020.2.02
UL https://staletapraha.cz/en/artkey/pha-202002-0002.php
AB The paper deals with glass from the 10th - 1st half of the 16th centuries collected by the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague (hereinafter UPM). A small assemblage of medieval glass, numbering 53 artefacts at present, was created from the very beginning of the museum's founding in 1885. Both container and flat glass is represented, circular window panes, stained glass, glass paste and underpainting. The earliest objects, referred to as Islamic glass, come from Egypt or the wider Eastern Mediterranean; the later ones are mostly of German origin. A specific section initiated by Dagmar Hejdová, documents a typical Bohemian production of the High Middle Ages based on archaeological finds. Almost half of the museum's assemblage was donated by Vojtěch Lanna. However, his original collection of medieval glass was much larger, according to the 1911 catalogue of the Rudolf Lepke company in Berlin, where also other materials of the collection were auctioned. Three of the glasses sold from Lanna's collection were found in other institutions.