LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Precious metal

Measurements:

1.02 in. (2.60 cm.) (height) by 16.69 in. (42.40 cm.) (width) by 5.35 in. (13.60 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

Exterior side marked with maker's mark, Finnish assay mark, purity mark 916H, Hämeenlinna town mark, date mark D7/impressed KÄSITYÖ/artist's monogram TW

Literature:

Marianne Aav and Nina Stritzler-Levine, eds., Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities: 1930-1997, exh. cat., The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New Haven, 1998, p. 172 Marianne Aav, Rosa Barovier Mentasti and Gordon Bowyer, et al., Tapio Wirkkala: eye, hand and thought, exh. cat., Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki, 2000, pp. 163, 362 Heikki Matiskainen, ed., Tapio Wirkkala: A Poet in Glass and Silver, exh. cat., Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, 2013, pp. 196, 353

Provenance:

Private collection, Hämeenlinna