Glass & Crystal
Naeb - The Beak Vase
Per Lutken for Holmegaard Glassworks
- DESCRIPTION
- Per Lutken spent fifty-six years at Holmegaard Glassworks, producing over 3,000 designs before his death in 1998. The Naeb - Danish for beak - is among his most celebrated achievements: its forked lip is drawn by hand from molten glass at 1,400C, and the body is seeded with controlled micro-bubbles using a wet pin pressed into the hot gather at precisely the right moment.
- DIMENSIONS
- 2.5" Diam x 9.25"H
- MEDIUM
- Hand-blown pale blue glass with controlled-bubble inclusions (signed)
- EDITION
- Unique / One-of-a-kind (Condition: Excellent vintage condition)
- PERIOD
- Denmark - c.1952-1974; Mid-20th century - Vintage
- PROVENANCE
- Signed and dated on the base, placing this within the inaugural production run of one of Scandinavian modernism's defining objects. Held in the collection of Designmuseum Danmark; signed and dated examples such as this are among the most sought-after objects in Scandinavian design collecting.
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