Labelled Coquille Flygsfors 1950s butterfly vase

Here's another of Paul Kedelv's bold, distinctive Flygsfors designs, well-photographed by Pernilla. The mix of sommerso (the double-pronged pink base always reminds me of the roots of a tooth suspended in crystal) and colour layered over white glass is hard to capture. 

Kedelv continued in a similar theme for his next employers, Reijmyre, see for example:

http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/1925

Usually they have a two-digit date after the word, "Flygsfors" on the base but we can't read it on this one.  It will have been made in the mid to late 1950s.

For other Keldelv designs, mostly sold I'm afraid, see:

http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/search/kedelv/3/0/0

Height: 17 cm (6.5 inches)
Width: 9 cm
Weight: 640 g
Engraved ""Coquille" and "Flygsfors-" (?) to the base, stickered ""Coquille flygsfors KRISTALL" (kristall=crystal in Swedish)
Condition: light wear to the base aside from a 0.5x3mm fleabite to the rim of the base, wear to the sticker, a 0.5x3mm unintended bubble close to the base

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Our Reference: 2550

This item has sold for US $200.00

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