Vase
1932 (designed)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Colourless glass vase, cut.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Cut glass |
| Brief description | Vase, Sweden, colourless glass, cut, designed by Simon Gate, for Orrefors glassworks, 1932 |
| Physical description | Colourless glass vase, cut. |
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| Style | |
| Gallery label | This modest vase was one of a number at around 1932-35 by Simon Gate (1883-1945), employing plain flat-cutting. In Britain, such cutting is associated with early 19thC British glass. Pattern no. GA 395/4 was designed in 1932 and first appeared in the Orrefors trade catalogue of 1935. |
| Production | The design first occurs in the Orrefors trade catalogue of 1935 (see reference). |
| Bibliographic reference | Växjö, Smålands Museum with Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum: Swedish Glass factories production catalogues 1915-1960 Orrefors etc, Munich (Prestel), 1987,p. 76, p.102. for dating of model numbers for cut glass (p. 76) and a depiction of our vase (nr. GA.395/4) in the 1935 trade catalogue (p. 102). |
| Other number | 6398 - Glass gallery number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.54-1994 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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