Engraved Bowl

Engraved Bowl

 
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Object Name: 
Engraved Bowl
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
Sweden
Date: 
about 1982-about 1984
Color
AAT
colorless
AAT
opalescence
Dimensions: 
H: 22.2 cm, D: 29.7 cm
Accession Number: 
92.3.38
Credit Line: 
Bequest of David Brokars
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Colorless, opalescent, transparent yellow and blue-gray, opaque red, opaque black lead glasses; blown with pick-up decoration, hot-worked, carved/engraved. Large deep bowl of colorless with opalescent band at rim and thin red lip wrap, lower third of walls have pick-up decoration of yellow lines alternating with large blue-gray dots, walls broadly engraved with four leaping stylized rabbits (on hind legs) interspersed with a tall tree or flower with spiraling limbs, a flying insect at the end of a long angled line, a large dot at the end of a long angled line of dashes; curved base rests on narrow circular slightly concave solid foot of black glass; rough pontil; inscribed on base: "ANN WARFF (in script) Transejö".
Provenance
Brokars Estate, David, Source

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