Orrefors pair of vases - 1960 Sven Palmqvist copper wheel engraved design

I've added a second piece to this listing.  The smaller piece gives us a set, and I love sets. 

Engraving is not a simple skill.  It requires artistic talent and lots and lots of practice.  In terms of the time and skill put into the making of the glass, an engraved piece should generally be worth more than than an equivalent piece with no engraving.  Of course, if the design is poor, the amount of work in making it is irrelevant.

Personally I find much of the Swedish engraved glass from the 20th century a little too kitsch - deer and kittens and horses and the like - and I think the market agrees with me.  It therefore undervalues the genuinely good engraved designs like this.  I do like this abstract Sven Palmqvist design.  Mid-century chic.  (See also http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2260 for an even finer engraved Lindstrand piece.)

In concentrating on the designers of glass it's easy to forget that the engravers and glassblowers are also artists.  This piece has the code for the engraver (see the last photo).  It's hard to read but it's probably "a.s." for Anders Svensson who was an engraver at Orrefors 1939-1981.  It also has the code for the designer, Palmqvist (P).  This piece is in the 1960 catalogue, Orrefors 28.

Pina and Vigier value the 28cm version of this vase at US$400-500 (page 99, Scandinavian Glass 1930-2000: Smoke & Ice) so our price looks like a bargain.

Height: 23cm
Width: 8cm
Weight: 785g
Engraved "orrefors P3664/68 a.s."
Condition: light wear to the base, a handful of 0.5mm fleabites to the edge of the base, a couple of scratches (longest 9mm)

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