Dark glass carafe hand-painted at the Johannes Lorup's glass factory in 1920-30ies.
The tragic period of Estonian history in the first part of the 20th century was vividly reflected in the life of Johannes Lorup, an enterprising and aspiring man who had fought in the Estonian War of Independence, then establishing the largest ordinary and crystal glass factory in Estonia and becoming the trendsetter in that field – and ending up being deported by the Soviet occupying authorities from his native country to a death camp.
