Glass bowl, Sandvik/Orrefors, 1920s - 1930's

Equisite glass bowl with wiggly handles made at Orrefors Sandvik, 1920s-1930s Sweden. Smoky tone in the glass. Wonderful shapes and lines, medium size.

Founded in 1898, Sandvik/Orrefors was one of the leading companies in the Scandinavian modernism movement and is revered by collectors for the fine craftsmanship and innovation of its superlative art glass.

Orrefors began making art glass — works that, distinct from mass-production pieces, are made in small numbers to showcase the skills and talents of artists and artisans — in 1913. Two of the first artists hired by the firm were Simon Gate and Edward Hald, who worked initially in the organic Art Nouveau style, and later proved adept with the geometric imagery of the Art Deco period. Orrefors won an international following when it presented such pieces in Paris in 1925 at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes — the design fair whose name gave rise to the term Art Deco.