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blown glass
Not currently on view
Gift of Holly, Rachel, and Gerald Eggert in honor of Melissa G. Post
Orrefors has been a well-known glassworks since the early 20th century; its designers launched the concept of Swedish Modern at the New York World Fair in 1939, when colorful, vigorous, and exotic became buzzwords for modern glassware. During the mid-1940s, designer Nils Landberg developed a series of shallow bowls and tulip-shaped vases sporting abstract, engraved designs. These vases led to his Tulpanglas vases of the mid-1950s, which a master glassblower described as “the most difficult…and most exciting thing I ever did.” Sizes and shapes varied, but the tendency was toward ever more exaggerated stem lengths. This example is strongly evocative of the tulip’s elegant, simple form, although such an attenuated stem could not be expected to adequately support the heavy head of a real tulip. Today the Tulpanglas is regarded as a signature Orrefors form. (Allure of Flowers)
Accession Number: 2002.46
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