a 'Ravenna' glass bowl, Orrefors, Sweden 1967.
Four-sided with checkered decoration in red and blue, signed ORREFORS Ravenna Nr 3055 Sven Palmqvist, 16.5 x 16.5 cm, height 8.3 cm.
General impression is good.
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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