SVEN PALMQVIST, a "Ravenna" glass bowl, Orrefors, Sweden 1989.
Decorated in red against a blue ground, signed Orrefors 900340 Sven Palmqvist Ravenna Gallery 1-89. Diameter 31 cm, height 11 cm.
Insignificant wear.
Certificate included.
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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