flower vase

Object Name"Tulpanglas" (Tulip Glass)

Maker Nils Landberg (Swedish, 1907-1991)

Made FromLead glass, probably

Date1957

Place MadeSweden, Orrefors

TechniqueBlown

SizeOverall H: 35.5 cm; Rim Diam (max): 11.6 cm; Base Diam (max): 10.9 cm

Accession Number70.3.317

Credit LineGift of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

A Cup of Kindness

Decades in Glass: The 50's

Not On View

Physical DescriptionPale smokey greyish/green/amber cased in colorless bowl and most of stem/foot except for short section of pure colorless where bowl and stem meet; probably lead glass (tests differently than I-252-B); blown. Tall goblet with bell-shape bowl, widely flaring firepolished rim; base of bowl flows into short solid colorless section which is tip of tall thin hollow conical stem and foot (one gather); circular foot has folded rim; inscribed in script on base of foot rim: "N. LANDBERG EXPO N.U. 24-54": shield-shaped paper label, red with silver type and bird and branch logo on inside of base rim: "ORREFORS/SWEDEN".
Provenance

Source Jerome Strauss (1893-1978) - 1970