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Object NameBowl

Series

Latin Love

Maker Kosta Boda AB

Maker Gunnel Sahlin (Swedish, born 1954)

Maker Jan Nilsson (b. 1940)

Maker Jan Olof Augustsson (Swedish, b. 1955)

Made FromLead Glass

Date1990

Place MadeSweden

Techniqueblown, cased, assembled while hot

SizeH: 18.3 cm, L: 37.5 cm, W: 21.8 cm

Accession Number92.3.54

Credit LineGift of Kosta Boda AB

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Latin Love

Title Unknown (Gallery Orrefors Costa Boda/Ystad Kunsthall)

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Physical DescriptionTransparent cobalt and chartreuse cased in colorless lead glass; blown, cased, assembled while hot. Cobalt semi-flattened ovoid bowl with wide, undulating, lipless, fire-polished rim, walls taper in to narrow base, one pinched end of body decorated with hollow, slightly curved horn-shaped "handle" with widest end angling up past rim (top end is open, narrow end is solid and broken off flat), handle is chartreuse decorated with scattered groups of vertical parallel short dark picked-up lines and is connected to the body by a thick colorless patty; narrow, slightly ovoid base ground and polished flat, no pontil; three small circles of white felt adhered toward outside edge of base; engraved on base near edge: "KOSTA BODA (script) Gunnel Sahlin 1990 "Milonga"".
Provenance

Source Kosta Boda AB