£1,008
MODERN MADE: Modern & Post War Art, Design and Contemporary Ceramics & Crafts | 709
Auction: 28 April 2023 at 11:00 BST
signed K Bergqvist Lindefors 1929 No. 2 (to base), glass
Provenance
Private Collection, UK.
Bergqvist was the glass blower who created the ‘graal’ technique at Orrefors in 1916 shortly after the glassworks had been bought by Mr Ekman, an industrialist who wanted the Orrefors’ estate mainly for its forest assets and acquired the glassworks by accident. Ekman appointed one of his managers, Albert Ahlin, to look after the glassworks, and he employed Bergqvist, who worked there until 1929.
In the same year Bergqvist moved to Lindefors, a small glass works that he had acquired and was to manage himself. Unfortunately for Bergquist 1929 coincided with the great depression in USA which also had many ramifications throughout Europe. Bergquist’s market suddenly collapsed and the Lindefors works was sold again. The current work therefore is a rare example of Berqvist’s graal glass productions at Lindefors.