a "Ravenna" glass bowl, Orrefors 1952.
Decorated in blue and orange, signed Orrefors Ravenna nr: 245 Sven Palmqvist, 20,5 x 15,5 cm, height 14,5 cm.
The base with damage.
Gustav Abels, engraver at Orrefors Glassworks 1915-59, thence by descent.
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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