AN IMPORTANT ORREFORS ENGRAVED GLASS BOWL AND UNDERDISH, designed by Simon Gate in 1920, engraved by Emil Weidlich in 1927, the flaring elliptical vessel with oval underdish, engraved with a mythological scene of two couples in a garden, the rim of the underdish engraved with a floral band, inscribed 'Orrefors 1927. S. Gate 147.-EW.'--4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm.) high, 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm.) diameter (2)

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AN IMPORTANT ORREFORS ENGRAVED GLASS BOWL AND UNDERDISH, designed by Simon Gate in 1920, engraved by Emil Weidlich in 1927, the flaring elliptical vessel with oval underdish, engraved with a mythological scene of two couples in a garden, the rim of the underdish engraved with a floral band, inscribed 'Orrefors 1927. S. Gate 147.-EW.'--4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm.) high, 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm.) diameter (2)

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cf. Helmut Ricke and Ulrich Gronert, Glas in Schweden 1915-1960. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1986, p. 84, for an illustration of this model engraved in 1923 by Rickart Bayer.

This model was presented at the 1925 Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris.

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