Fluted Olive Green Vase / Orrefors Glasbruk

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Accession Number
1983/2.51
Title
Fluted Olive Green Vase
Artist Nationality
Swedish
Artist Life Dates
founded 1898
Medium and Support
glass
Object Creation Date
circa 1940
Object Creation Place
Europe (continent)
Sweden (nation)
Creation Place 1
Europe (continent)
Creation Place 2
Sweden (nation)
Style/Group/Movement
glass
Inscription
Inscribed on bottom of base: Orrefors 9A1440
Dimensions
19 cm x 19.4 cm (7 1/2 in. x 7 5/8 in.)
Century
20th century
Primary Object Classification
Decorative Arts
Primary Object Type
glass
Physical Description
Inverted cone-shaped vessel with fluted sides made of transparent olive-green glass
Subject Matter
In the early 20th century the refined opulence of glasswork, typified by Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Arts and Crafts movement, gradually gave way to a more modernist aesthetic that emphasized cleaner lines and plain undecorated surfaces. Glassmakers working in this modernist vein began to reject superfluous surface ornament and focused instead on the total integration of form and design. Orrefors Glasbruk, a Swedish glass manufacturer, was influenced by the Art Nouveau inspired works of Émile Gallé before developing their characteristic clean lines of brilliant crystal bringing to mind frozen liquid. These works illustrate the measured shift by modernist reformers to design along industrial principles that achieved beauty through form in its purest state rather than by means of applied ornament.
Primary Keywords
vase
vases
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Record
1983/2.51
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"Fluted Olive Green Vase; Orrefors Glasbruk." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1983-sl-2.51/1983_2.51.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 29, 2024.
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