ORREFORS Kosta Boda Crystal Vase "Mayflower" 8 1/2" Signed (5) Lovely Gift!

Description

ORREFORS  CRYSTAL
Clear with green hue at inner base
ORREFORS  CRYSTAL Vase "MAYFLOWER"
Orrefors artists love and take inspiration from nature and many are dedicated gardeners.
The mayflower, or trailing arbutus, cultivated as well as growing wild in Sweden, is a popular design motif.
Mayflower series blooms into this crystal vase with a tint of green.
8 3/8” high
4 7/8” diameter at top
2 3/8” diameter at base
It weighs slightly over 6.5 pounds
Signed by Jan Johannson
Orrefers label on lower front center
Never used-excellent presentation-display
With Box-  Expertly packed for shipping!
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Around the world Orrefors is associated with unique glass articles, art glass, and custom glass that all add beauty to their everyday life.Together with its skillful designers, Orrefors presents a new collection of glass every spring and autumn. These glass articles are manufactured in an unlimited edition. Orrefors art glass is always produced in limited editions. Their artists are free to develop techniques and ways of expression as they please.As early as 1726, Lars Johan Silversparre received permission to build a furnace and a smithy at "the beautiful river that flows into Lake Orrenas". The iron works was given the name Orrefors, which means "the Orre waterfall".
Orrefors' international breakthrough came at the Paris Exhibition of 1925. From the Hotel de Ville, the Town Hall of Paris, the Swedish pavilion borrowed a magnificent glass goblet designed by Simon Gate that had been presented as a gift to the City of Paris from the City of Stockholm in 1922. The goblet became a sensation, and the prestigious Grand Prix award was given to Orrefors and its designers. The glassblowers and engravers received gold medals. Many of the imposing glas objects from Orrefors were created for special occasions, or to special order. The motifs in the engraved glass of that period may seem somewhat grandiloquent today, but the technique was consummately realized through skilled craftsmanship and the light, clear quality of the glass.
The ambition for all glass from Orrefors is the highest possible quality and exquisite design. This is the same objective that applied more than eighty years ago, when Johan Ekman traveled the long road through the forest, past the quiet farms behind their stonewalls...
And if you have once traveled this road, through dark spruce forests, across the open meadows, past the stone walls, past the shining lakes and the sparking brooks, you too will understand what makes it all possible. This where the world's most beautiful glass is created.