drinking-glass
- Museum number
- 2000,0909.4.a-d
- Description
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Set of four drinking glasses, comprising a small tumbler, liqueur glass, port glass and red wine glass. The tumbler is engraved with a lozenge pattern of alternate matt and polished lozenges, the polished lozenges with central cut star; this covers the upper part while the lower part is cut with broad facets. The three stemmed glases bear the same engraved lozenge pattern on the upper part of the bowl, while the lower part is cut with broad facets. The stem are cut with four facets flaring into a square base, with octagonal faceted knop between bowl and stem. The feet are engraved with stylised laurel wreath motif. The laurel wreath is gilded and bands of gilding border the lozenge pattern above and below. Unmarked.
- Production date
- 1896 (designed)
- Dimensions
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Height: 90 millimetres (a: tumbler)
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Height: 98 millimetres (b: liqueur glass)
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Height: 116 millimetres (c: port glass)
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Height: 138 millimetres (d: red wine glass)
- Curator's comments
- These glasses are part of the 'Odelberg' service, named after the family who commissioned it. The service was shown at the Malmö Exhibition of 1896, see Ann Marie Herlitz-Gezelius, Kosta, Lund 1987, p. 18-19. For illustration of the full range of shapes in this service, including the decanter, see sale catalogue Bukowski's, Stockholm, 5-7 December 2000, lots 1247-1250.
A similar service was produced several years later, in 1916, by Orrefors, for Agnes Hellner, daughter of the factory owner. The lozenge pattern is simplified ands there is no gilding, see N. Weibull (ed), A Love of Glass. Agnes Hellner's Collection of Orrefors Glass, Uppsala 1998, pp. 124-5.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2000
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2000,0909.4.a-d
