'NEGERHYDDAN'(THE NEGRO HUT) AN ENGRAVED CLEAR GLASS CUP AND COVER

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'NEGERHYDDAN'(THE NEGRO HUT) AN ENGRAVED CLEAR GLASS CUP AND COVER
DESIGNED BY EDWARD HALD, EXECUTED BY ORREFORS, CIRCA 1918

The circular waisted base set with four glass balls supporting a waisted cylinder with a conical cover and tear-drop finial, allover delicately engraved with a jungle scene depicting palm trees with nude male and female hunters, monkeys, birds, a squirrel and butterflies, engraved Orrefors Hald 65. 25. H.--10½in. (26.8cm.) high

cf. Herausgegeben von Helmut Ricke und Ulrich Gronert, Glas in Schweden, Prestel, Munich, 1986, p. 91, fig. 85;Glass from The Corning Museum of Glass a Guide to the Collections, The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 1974, for a discussion and an illustration of this model