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Product sheet Claritas glass vessel

Architonic-ID:  4104628
Designer:
T. Sarpaneva
Manufacturer:
Iittala
Year: 1987
 
Finnish designer Timo Sarpaneva (1926) in 1983 started the 'Claritas' series, his largest and most ambitious project in glass, which eventually lead to 66 unique variations on the theme of the monumental polished vessel with internal decoration, each piece showing the aesthetic possibilities of the complicated steam-blow technique.
Stem-blown and polished thick colourless glass with a hollow core enclosed by a black layer applied with three opaque white oval 'eyes' behind three ovoid air-bubble lenses.
Height 24,2 cm
Engraved marks 'Timo Sarpaneva II/1987'
Provenance: Galerie Inart , Amsterdam 1988
Literature: See note to the previous lot, no. 242, p. 78 for a similar vessel
estimated value: 
1800-2200 EUR
 
Auction: 
20th Century Decorative Arts and Design

Sales date: 2002-11-18
location: Amsterdam
Sales number: Sale AM0868
Lot number: 31
 
Auction House:
Sotheby´s
Address:

Sotheby´s


United Kingdom

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Designer:
Timo Sarpaneva

Timo Sarpaneva


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