An engraved glass bowl with plate, model 128, Orrefors post 1920.
Oval bowl with dish, featuring hunting motifs with Diana, dancing women and botanical ornaments, signed Orrefors Gate 128 and with the engraver’s signature. Length 21.5 cm, width 15.7 cm, height including dish 11.7 cm.
Property from a private collection, Finland
Helmut Ricke, Ulrich Gronert, “Glas in Schweden 1915–60”, Prestel Verlag, Munich, 1986, cf. cat. no. 74, p. 83.
The model was designed in 1920.
Simon Gate was a Swedish glass artist, painter, and designer. After studying at the Academy of Arts, he started working at the Orrefors glass factory. Together with the glass artist Edward Hald, he contributed to the glass factory's first international success. From 1916, Simon Gate produced the so-called ’graal’ glass, which master blower Knut Bergqvist further developed from cameo glass. Today, the graal glass pieces from Orrefors are among the most sought-after pieces of art glass among Swedish collectors. Together with Knut Bergqvist, he also created the so-called ’slottsglas’ which have received much attention recently. Simon Gate also became famous for his engraving compositions on the glasses, which were decorated with, among other things, processions and dancing women.
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