Glass for the Galician market
Kraków lay on one of the firm’s most important trade routes. Galicia was supplied through agencies that ordered from the printed catalogues, and the assortment sent eastward differed in emphasis from what was sold in Vienna or Budapest: heavier pressed table glass, robust everyday services and lamp components rather than the lighter decorative pieces.
The small group of objects presented here reflects that trade. Each is documented with its glass type, its method of refining and, where legible, the pattern number that ties it to a plate in the sales catalogues. Pieces of this kind circulated widely and were often repaired or reused, so survivals in good condition are correspondingly informative about the original finish.
Further examples appear among the plates reproduced in the catalogues, where the same shapes can be seen in the form in which they were offered to buyers, with sizes and prices attached.
Everyday wares and their survival
Utility glass survives badly. It was used daily, washed carelessly, chipped and thrown away, and almost none of it was thought worth keeping while it was still in production. The pieces that do survive tend to have escaped by accident — put aside in a cupboard, kept as part of a half-service, or acquired by a museum precisely because it was ordinary.
That makes each documented example disproportionately valuable. A single intact tumbler can confirm the wall profile of a whole numbered series, and a lamp component with its fitting intact fixes a standard diameter that the catalogues state only in abbreviated form.