Bowl with an Eel
Designer: Anna Katarina Boberg (Swedish, 1864-1935)
Artist: (Glassblower) Fredric Kessmeier (Swedish, 1859-1946)
Manufacturer: Reijmyre Glassworks
Date: 1903
Dimensions:
H: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.); Diam: 22 cm (8 5/8 in.)
Medium: Glass; mold-blown, applied ("Marqueterie de Verre"), and engraved.
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 2004.16
Label Text:The Swedish glass industry prospered in the early 20th century because it enlisted independent artists to work with the factories. The Swedish painter Anna Boberg worked as a designer for the Reijmyre Glassworks in Kolmården near Stockholm, one of the oldest glass factories in Sweden, from 1901 to1902. The Eel Bowl was inspired by the work of French Art Nouveau artist Emile Gallé (see his Vase with Irises in this gallery), whose vessels in marqueterie sur verre (inlay in glass) Boberg encountered in Paris.
Her bowl was displayed at the Turin Exposition of 1902, the most ambitious display of international decorative art ever attempted. After the fair, a limited edition of the bowl was executed at Reijmyre by the German glassblower Fredric Kessmeier.
Her bowl was displayed at the Turin Exposition of 1902, the most ambitious display of international decorative art ever attempted. After the fair, a limited edition of the bowl was executed at Reijmyre by the German glassblower Fredric Kessmeier.
DescriptionColorless and translucent green and brown glass
Not on view
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