"How does the creature look? A devil? How so? It would be best if one could see a living one. The result was a black, hairy figure squatting."
This is how Gunnar Cyrén himself described how the devil glass in the Nobel service got its shape. The first glass, the black one, was released in 1996. Originally, only seven glasses were to be included in the series, one hand devil and six dog devils. In conjunction with the Nobel Prize's centenary, a dark green glass with a limited edition was released, and in 2008 it was decided that a new colour would be released each year and would only be manufactured during that particular year. To ensure the series still contained seven glasses, the purple glass was removed from the standard set. Since then, a new colour has been released every year until 2018 when the last glass in the series was released, this one in metallic brown.