a "Dubbel-Ravenna" (Double Ravenna) glass bowl, Orrefors, Sweden, 1961, nr 1858.
Four-sided, checkered decoration in blue, red and clear glass, signed ORREFORS Ravenna Nr 1858 Sven Palmqvist. Height 10.5 cm, 21.5 x 21.5 cm.
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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