a ravenna glass bowl, Orrefors 1951, no 141.
Oval with decoration of autumn leaves in orange-red against blue, signed ORREFORS SWEDEN RAVENNA 141 Sven Palmqvist. 21 x 17 cm, height 14.5 cm.
Andres Laszlo Jr. Collection.
André Laszlo, "Swedish Art Glass", Sellin & Blomquist, 1991, the bowl illustrated p. 94.
Sven Palmqvist was a Swedish glass artist and designer. As a long-term employee at Orrefors glassworks, Palmqvist was the originator of several new art glass techniques. Kraka was launched in 1944 as a development of the graal glass. In 1948 came Ravenna, a combination of a colored glass plate, crushed glass and a layer of clear glass. Palmqvist had his greatest success with the bowl series Fuga.
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