A cameo glass vase, Reijmyre 1914, no. 368.
Baluster-shaped with a wide foot, featuring etched decoration of a salamander among aquatic plants in green against a turquoise-blue background, engraved signature Reijmyre A. E Boman (etched and polished by Axel Enoch Boman) UNIQUE 1914 N=368 G. Welander. Height 33.5 cm.
Literature
Gunnel Mörkfors (ed.), "Jugendglas från Reijmyre", Östergötland County Museum exhibition catalogue 2010, cf. the design for the vase with a lizard and hepatica, a watercolour, 40 x 29 cm, signed G. Welander, in Östergötland County Museum A 14797:48
Maria Jansén & Ulf Ericsson (eds.), Reijmyre Glasbruk", cf. the design illustrated p. 63: Reijmyre's cost for designs corresponded to approximately 15% of the finished glass's selling price. The designer Greta Welander received 15 SEK for the design of the vase with a lizard among hepatica in 1915. Reijmyre's selling price for the finished glass was 300 SEK.
More information
Greta Welander's glass is very rare on the auction market, and very few examples are known. Her designs are not dated, but a few known pieces made from these designs are dated, so far two from 1913 and one from 1916.
More about Greta Welander
Greta Welander was educated at the Technical School (now Konstfack) in Stockholm from 1902 to 1905. In 1908, she married a manufacturer in the textile industry in Norrköping. During the 1910s, she worked as a designer at Reijmyre Glassworks. She likely created her first designs for the glassworks in 1913, as the first correspondence between Welander and Reijmyre regarding designs has been found. Her design world contained motifs almost exclusively from the Swedish flora and fauna, and the designs seem to have been primarily suited for decoration in the overlay technique.
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