Bowl / Orrefors Glasbruk
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.50
- Title
- Bowl
- Artist
- Orrefors Glasbruk
- Artist Nationality
- Swedish
- Artist Life Dates
- founded 1898
- Medium and Support
- glass
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1937
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Sweden (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Sweden (nation)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Jean Paul Slusser
- Style/Group/Movement
- glass
- Dimensions
- 9 cm x 21.1 cm (3 9/16 in. x 8 5/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Primary Object Type
- glass
- Physical Description
- Clear glass bowl-shaped vessel with large foot and turned-in lip.
- 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.
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by form
- modern and contemporary art
- objects
- objects we use
- vessels
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 975 x 1379
- File Size
- 54 KB
- Record
- 1983/2.50
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1983-sl-2.50/1983_2.50.jpg
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"Bowl; Orrefors Glasbruk." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1983-sl-2.50/1983_2.50.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 05, 2024.