An Etched and Carved Glass Vase
An Etched and Carved Glass Vase

DESIGNED BY SIMON GATE FOR ORREFORS, 1930, ENGRAVED BY ARTHUR DIESSNER

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An Etched and Carved Glass Vase
Designed by Simon Gate for Orrefors, 1930, engraved by Arthur Diessner
Tapering square section form, carved in intaglio with stylised nudes
9in. (24cm.) high
Engraved mark ORREFORS-S-GATE-546-30-A-DIESSNER on underside

Lot Essay

Cf: Helmut Ricke & Ulrich Gronert, Glas in Schweden 1915-1960, Munich, 1986 (Examples of Gate's works illustrated)
See also: Jennifer Hawkins Opie, Ceramics and Glass in the Twentieth Century, V&A, 1989, p. 125, fig. 450 (Example of a tray by Gate and Diessner illustrated)
Bo Knutsson, Swedish Art in Glass 1900-1990, Vnersborg, 1991, figs. 23, 28 and 29 (Examples of glass by Gate and Diessner illustrated)

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