A Blue Glass Icicle Bowl, designed by Tauno Wirkalla for Humppila Finland, late C20th
£150.00
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A Blue Glass Icicle Bowl, designed by Tauno Wirkalla for Humppila Finland, late C20th
A blue glass Bowl of shallow form with straight flaring sides modelled with repeating icicle like shards with pointed edges, the base flat and with an indented foot. The design here is very much representative of the Art Deco period but was made much later. The manufacturing technique is that of pressed glass in which molten glass is pressed into a mould with a plunger. This was the most common way to produce inexpensive glass from the middle of the 19th century onwards and enjoyed a great vogue in England in the 1920s and 1930s. But this piece is much later and was designed by Tauno Wirkalla for the Finnish glassworks Humppila probably in the 1960s or 1970s.Tauno Wirkalla was the brother of the celebrated Finnish designer Tappio Wirkalla and like him favoured an ‘ice glass’ effect in his designs. He was one of the designers for the Humpilla Glassworks in Finland which was founded by the Helander brothers in 1952 and was then subject to various takeovers, finally being acquired by the firm Nuutajarvi (for whom the Helander brothers had originally worked) in 1986. Wirkalla produced many ‘ice glass’ designs for Humppila, some of which are signed and some still surviving with their factory labels, which is not the case here. This bowl is of an exceptionally large size and has miraculously survived undamaged with all its pointed edges intact. A truly distinctive centrepiece recreating the style of an earlier era.
| Size: | Diam 39cm (max), Ht 10cm (max) |
| Weight: | 1.63kg |
| Date: | 1980s |
| Condition: | Very good condition |
| Price: | £150 |
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