Eva Englund
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"Möte i havsströmmen" (Meeting in the Ocean Current), a unique graal glass vase, Muraya, Sweden.
Motif with faces in blue, green, black and white, signed Eva Englund Muraya unique graal 390792, Wilke A (glassblower Wilke Adolfsson), height 38 cm.
Provenance
Acquired as a gift from Eva Englund, thence by descent.
Exhibitions
Exhibited in the Swedish Pavilion at the World Exhibition in Seville 1992.
Designer
Eva Englund (1937-1998) was a Swedish designer, mainly in glass. Eva Englund trained ceramics at Konstfack and at Capellagården. She was active at Pukeberg glass factory 1964–1973 and Orrefors 1974–1990. Eva came to be the one who renewed the graal glass at Orrefors, initially in more discreet pastel colors and abstract plant motifs. At the end of the 1980s, Eva designed what she has become best known for, the graal glass pieces in strong colors and with narrated motifs. Her pieces were extremely sought after and there were queues at the exhibitions in the late 1980s to buy some of her sought after creations. After she left Orrefors, Eva continued to work with glass in graal technique together with the glassblower Wilke Adolfsson in a studio called Muraya.
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