Pepitaglas with outward foot from Holmegaard Glassworks
The glass have a nice purple color, due to added manganese to the glass mass.
Pepitaglas from Holmegaard Glasswork.
The model is shown for the first time in the 1867 catalog.
Height 6.7 cm.
Pepita de Oliva was a Spanish ballet dancer who visited Copenhagen in 1858 and caused a lot of attention.
It may be that the copenhagens citizens was fascinated by her Southern Italian being, that she was a woman and had traveled Europe and of course, not least her ability as a ballet dancer.
Several Danish glassworks produced items named after her, among other things flasks with her inside as a figure and these egg-shaped liqueurs or schnapps glasses.
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