Graal Vase

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Graal Vase

Artist(Engraver) Heinrich Wollman Swedish

Artist(Glassblower) Knut Bergkvist Swedish

Designer Niels Tove Edward Hald Swedish, 1883-1980

Manufacturer Orrefors Glasbruk Swedish, 1898-present

Date1920

DimensionsH: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm); Diam: 7 5/16 in. (18.5 cm)

MediumColorless, opaque burgundy red, and brownish-yellow glass; blown, overlaid, engraved, encased (graal technique), and applied.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

2004.83

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Collections

Glass

Published ReferencesModern Art Sale, Bukowskis Auktioner, Stockholm, Sweden, November 5, 2004, lot 955.

Exhibition HistoryStockholm, Sweden, National Museum of Sweden, "Orrefors 100 år" (One hundred years of Orrefors), 1998, no. 70.Label TextInvented at Orrefors, “graal” glass—colored relief decorations encased in colorless glass—was named for the Holy Grail.