Vicke Lindstrand
Vicke Lindstrand and Nils Landberg, a glass decanter with stopper and six glasses, Orrefors, Sweden 1940s-50s.
Decorated with engraved motifs featuring mermaids and dancers. Decanter signed 'Orrefors Lindstrand 1617.C2.AP'(?). Height of the decanter 30 cm. Glasses signed 'Orrefors. N. 2814.62Y' and numbered 1-6. Height of the glasses 13 cm.
Wear. One small insignificant chip/mark to the stopper.
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The glasses with model number N2814, designed by Nils Landberg between 1941-44.
Designer
Vicke (Viktor) Lindstrand, glass artist, illustrator, textile artist and ceramic designer. He worked at Orrefors in 1928-41, where he designed glass in classic forms with engraved decor, often stylized figurative motifs. At the Stockholm exhibition in 1930, Orrefors exhibited his painted glass pieces. During the 1930s, the engraved and optic-blown glass with the "Pearl fisher" and "Shark hunter" came with its muscular bare figures. In front of the World Exhibition in Paris 1937, one starts working with the thick-walled glass, and he renewed the "graal" glass and together with Edvin Öhrström he introduced the "ariel" glass. Vicke Lindstrand was artistic director at Upsala-Ekeby 1942-50. After that he came to Kosta as an artistic director 1950-73, where he renewed the glass design and experimented with glass sculptures.
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