Vase made of light blue opal glass with white-gray and brown-violet interlacing and a colorless overlay. The brown overlay in a steel mold is pierced by an irregular, composite, polyp-like ornament. The body is decorated with gold-painted tendril and spiral décor, a gilded rim, and the base is inscribed "Patent."The vase is in undamaged condition; the gold decoration is rubbed in places.Loetz Witwe in Klostermühle, circa 1888, Octopus series, height: approx.29.5 cm, diameter at top: approx. 13.2 cm.References: Waltraud Neuwirth, Loetz Österreich 1900, Vienna 1986, pages 301/302.References: Helmut Ricke (ed.).Lötz.Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940.Munich 1989, Vol. 1, page 59. Octopusglas, page 63.