Antique & Decorative Arts 2 Days - 30 & 31 March Wednesday, 30 March 2022 / 10:00 am start
An Orrefors 'Fishgraal' Art Glass Vase by Edvard Hald
Lot Details
ovoid form with swimming fish and aquatic plants. Engraved to the base 'Orrefors Sweden/Graal 1524/Edvard Hald. 16cm height The Graal glass technique was invented at Orrefors Glasbruk in Sweden, in 1916. The glassmakers creates a piece with different coloured layers of glass, allowsit to cool, then cuts a design in one of the coloured layers to create a pattern. Then they re-heat it and case it with more crystal, and expand it. Obviously, this is a very complex, time-consuming process. A variation of the Graal technique is Fishgraal, invented by Edvard Hald in the 1930s. A design is painted on the glass, a green layer in this case, with liquid bitumen. Then, all the green layer which isn't covered with the pattern is acid-etched away, so that the pattern stands out on a clear background. Then it is reheated to 400-500 degrees celcius and carefully covered with another thick layer of crystal. The name, Fishgraal, comes from the fact that the first collection featured fish designs.
