Property from an Important Private Collection
Alvar Aalto, An Early "Savoy" Vase
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December 12, 06:50 PM GMT
Estimation
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Description du lot
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Alvar Aalto
An Early "Savoy" Vase
circa 1937
model no. 9750, from the "Eskimoerindens Skinnbuxa" series
executed by Karhula, Finland
molded glass
5 ½ in. (14 cm) high
8 ⅛ in. (20.6 cm) maximum diameter
Phillips New York, December 11, 2002, lot 49
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Domus, no. 125, May 1938, p. 36
Jennifer Hawkins Opie, Scandinavia: Ceramics & Glass in the Twentieth Century, London, 1989, p. 23, fig. 189
Eva B. Ottillinger, Alvar Aalto, Möbel: Die Sammlung Kossdorff, Vienna, 2002, p. 74, fig. 76
Thomas Kellein, ed. alvar & aino aalto. design collection bischofberger, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Zurich, 2005, pp. 213-214