"Kiikkuri", a glass sculpture of a bird, Nuutajärvi Notsjö, Finland 1976-78.
Free blown glass in red and green with applications, signed Oiva Toikka Nuutajärvi Notsjö and labeled, height 29.8 cm, length 44.5 cm.
Minor defect on the tail from manufacture.
Marg Cousens, "Toikka’s glass birds", Helsinki 2024, model depicted pp. 15-16.
Model designed in 1976.
Oiva Toikka (1931-2019) is one of the greatest Finnish ceramic and glass artists of the 20th century. Toikka, who began his artistic career as a ceramicist, was from 1963 the artistic director of Notsjö Glasbruk. However, Toikka is today mainly associated with Iittala, not least for the well-known production of "glass birds". The successes have also been great in other artistic areas, for example Toikka has been hired as a costume designer for several theater and opera productions, of which productions at the Finnish National Opera should be mentioned.
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