Crystal glass, blow moulded, ground, facet-cut and polished by hand, massive, high foot.

Honoured 1969 with the Bundespreis „Gute Form“ (federal-price "good form").

Designer: Wilhelm Wagenfeld, 1952/3,
Manufacure: Glass factory Peill & Putzler, Düren, Germany, Model: "Greif," internal No. 891/53,
Marked: with etched „P“.
Measure: beaker: h. 3,9" (10 cm), d. 2,8" (7,2 cm); cup for wine: h. 3,7" (9,5 cm), d. 2,7" (7 cm); liquer glass: h. 2,8" (7,2 cm), d. 2,8" (7,2).

The formally new of this glasstype is the attempt to give up the classic three-division of foot – handle – cup in favor of the production-technically simpler massive foot, which fulfills the griffin and stand-function simultaneously.

A series of attempts went ahead this ripe design in the years 1949/50.

The costly cut doesn't serve alone the visual processing of the glass-form. The cup gets a surface, that effects the sense of touch more intensively, as this would be the case with a smooth glass.

Wagenfelds designs put high requests at the glass-makers. The thin-walled glasses should not contain any stripes or inclusions. With exact technical drawings, Wagenfeld pretended the dimensionses of the workpiece to be manufactured. Strict controls secured the high craft-like level of the glass-quality.

The design falls into the time of the foundation of the „Rat für Formgebung“ ("advice for design"), in 1953. Many educational thoughts about the ethics of the form and the mass-product of Wilhelm Wagenfeld reappear in the foundation-concept.

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Literature: Thomas Dexel; Trinkgefäße aus Glas in der Formsammlung der Stadt Braunschweig, Braunschweig 1978, p.79, i.73; 5[Fünf] Jahre Bundespreis Gute Form: Eine Ausstellung des Rates für Formgebung; Deutsches Museum München, 20. Juli bis 22. Sept. 1974, Darmstadt 1974; Kat. Bremen 1994 (index of his oeuvre), p.320, No. 308.