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Object NameMarquetry Vase with Water Lilies

Designer Betzy Ählström (Swedish, 1857-1934)

Manufacturer Reijmyre Glasbruk AB

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1902

Place MadeSweden, Rejmyre

TechniqueCased, blown, hot-worked, hot-applied decorative elements (marquetrie de verre)

SizeOverall H: 21.3 cm, Diam (max): 15.1 cm

Accession Number2015.3.16

Credit LineGift of the Ennion Society

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

On ViewModern Gallery

Physical DescriptionMarquetry Vase with Water Lilies. Light and dark purple, blue, blue-green, green, and white glasses; cased, blown, hot-worked, and hot-applied decorative elements (marquetrie de verre). Cylindrical vase with rounded base, tapering in at the waist and then opening up into a bulb-shaped shoulder and wide mouth, the lower body consisting of watercolor-like watery layers of blue and green glasses turning to light purple at the shoulder; two water lilies with long stems are applied in the glass marquetry technique. Engraved on the lower body, "Ähm. C. R. Rijmyre (Suède)" and on the underside of the base, "No. 135".
Provenance

Source Lillian Nassau LLC - 2015-09-08

Former Collection Christie's, Geneva - 1985
The Marquetry Vase with Water Lilies was owned by a Virginia family, who received the vase as a gift in the late 1980s. The vase was sold at auction at Christie's, Geneva, Switzerland, in 1985, and still retains the sticker from that sale. The Christie's sales catalogue mentions that at the time of the sale, only two other versions of this vase were known to exist, and are located in the Museum der Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria, and the Malmӧ Museum, Malmӧ , Sweden. A third has been located at the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Dresden, Germany. The Malmӧ vase was exhibited in 1902 at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs Modernes in Turin, Italy.