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1960´s Danish Handblown Blue Glass Ashtray, Bowl by Per Lütken for Holmegaard

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1960´s Danish handblown blue glass ashtray - bowl by Per Lütken for Holmegaard. The circular handblown ashtray feature an extremly rich mixture of almost all varietys of blue collors from the very, very bright almost transparent blue to the deep dark blue and all varietys inbetween - all depending of the background and the amount / angle of light it´s exposed to, why you hardly ever see it look the same. Use it as an ashtray, a bowl or "just" as a piece of decorative art in a place where the daylight can preform it's magics in the glass during the day or by artificial light at night! The ashtray is in very good condition with hardly any signs of age and use and is engraved with Holmegaards name, Holmegaards designnumber and Per Lützens mark at the bottom. Acoording to the original owner the ashtray was bought at a storage sale on the Holmegaard Glass workshop in the mid 1980´s. They told him that it was made in a test production back in the 1960´s to test a new mixture of glass and color to acheive the very exquisite play of colors in the glass. The test however showed that too many pieces did not succeed and as a result of that the mixture never went into production and the too few sucessfull pieces from the test was put in storage... why this piece is extremly rare.

Creator:

Holmegaard (Manufacturer),Per Lütken (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 1.38 in (3.5 cm)Diameter: 5.12 in (13 cm)

Style:

Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Glass,Hand-Crafted

Place of Origin:

Denmark

Period:

1960-1969

Date of Manufacture:

1960s

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. Very good condition.

Seller Location:

Knebel, DK

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU2713330335692

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Holmegaard has been creating quality glassware for almost two centuries. The legendary glassworks has collaborated with scores of celebrated designers over its long history, including Arne Jacobsen, Louise Campbell, Bodil Kjær and many others, with each artisan crafting vases, bottles and other serveware and decorative objects that are widely loved by collectors and art connoisseurs alike. Today Holmegaard is a powerhouse of functionalist modern Danish glass design.

Holmegaard Glassworks was the dream of Danish Count Christian Danneskiold-Samsøe, who petitioned the king of Denmark for permission to build a factory. Sadly, by the time permission was granted, the count had passed away, leaving his dowager, the Countess Henriette Danneskiold-Samsøe, to carry on her late husband’s dream in 1825. The factory was established in the town of Fensmark in the Holmegaard bog, where rich peat could be harvested and used to fuel the high-temperature kilns required to produce glass there.

The factory initially produced only simple mouth-blown green glass packaging bottles — the need was for glassware that was merely functional. It wasn’t until the 1920s that it made progress as a significant entity in the world of design. There was a fruitful partnership to create dinner glassware with the Royal Danish Porcelain Factory and glass artist Oluf Jensen. This was followed in 1925 by Holmegaard’s hiring Jacob Eiler Bang as the glassworks’ first in-house designer.

Bang was trained as an architect and was working on the Danish Pavilion at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts — the fair that brought the Art Deco style to worldwide attention — when his efforts caught the attention of Holmegaard. Bang believed in the concept of making things that were “beautiful, strong, practical and cheap.” His seductive, functionalist designs for vases, decanters, bottles and other objects — guided by the theories that underpin Scandinavian modernism — garnered acclaim for both Bang and Holmegaard, and he became known as one of the fathers of functionalism in Danish glassware.

Holmegaard went on to work with Per Lütken, who created intricate objects that redefined the factory’s style and Danish glass design as a whole. Lütken produced over 3,000 pieces for the glassworks, including the revered Provence bowl, one of the pieces for which the glassworks is best known. The brand went on to work with other notable artists including Otto Brauer and Jacob Bang’s son, Michael Bang, whose Palet range, Fontaine wine glass range, and Mandarin lamps are among Holmegaard’s most iconic creations.

Today, Holmegaard Glassworks is owned by Rosendahl Design Group. It is Denmark’s largest manufacturer of glass in addition to being the oldest and most historic.

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