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This clear greyish glass bowl dates from around 1936. It was designed by Edward Hald and made at Orrefors Glass Works in Sweden.

The vase has wheel-engraved decoration depicting fish and bubbles. It is diamond-engraved with the mark 'orrefors HE127'.

During the 1920s and 1930s, Scandinavian, and particularly Swedish glass, developed what had been an insignificant industry into a major international influence through their application of functionalist, modernist theories. The centre of this new creativity was Orrefors Glassworks. Edward Hald, a painter and pupil of Matisse, was taken on by Orrefors in 1917, and had enormous influence throughout this period.

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• Online ID: 000-190-004-398-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  A.1967.829
• Date: Around 1936
  c. 1936 - 1937
  
• Material: Glass, clear greyish, wheel-engraved decoration. Inscription: orrefors HE127 [diamond-engraved]
  
• Dimensions: 83 mm H x 191 mm L x 152 mm W
  
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• Subject: European glass
  
• Who: Edvard Hald (Designer)
  Orrefors Glassworks, Orrefors (Maker)
  
• Where: Sweden, Orrefors
  
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• Description: Bowl of clear greyish glass wheel-engraved with fish and bubbles: Swedish, Orrefors, designed by Edvard Hald, by Orrefors Glassworks, c. 1936 - 1937
  
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