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Title: Holmegaard bowl
Post by: Leni on June 09, 2008, 10:34:53 PM
Just picked this Holmegaard bowl up today  ;D Can anyone tell me what the squiggle and numbers on the base mean, please? 
Title: Re: Holmegaard bowl
Post by: Pinkspoons on June 09, 2008, 10:48:15 PM
Per Lütken monogram and pattern number, dating production to post c.1965.

The design is a 'Hjertevase' from the 1955-designed 'Menuet' range.
Title: Re: Holmegaard bowl
Post by: Leni on June 09, 2008, 11:06:59 PM
Thank you very much, Nic!  :-*   Do I take it that 'Hjertevase' means Heart vase?  'Cos now I look at it, it is sort of heart-shaped!   :D   But what was the 'Menuet' range? 
Title: Re: Holmegaard bowl
Post by: Pinkspoons on June 09, 2008, 11:09:26 PM
Yes, it just means heart vase.  ;D 'Menuet' was just a range of these vases in a variety of sizes/colours (Aqua Blue, Smoke (the colour of yours), and Clear).
Title: Re: Holmegaard bowl
Post by: Leni on June 09, 2008, 11:22:21 PM
Thank you again!  And thank you for telling me the colour.  When I first picked it up I thought it was just grey, then I looked again in different light and thought it was a turquoisey blue, and when I got it home and looked again I could see a greenish tinge!  So 'smoke' is a good enough description for me!  ::) 
Title: Re: Holmegaard bowl
Post by: HarderNet.dk on July 04, 2008, 12:25:27 PM
Just picked this Holmegaard bowl up today  ;D Can anyone tell me what the squiggle and numbers on the base mean, please? 

Your vase is called "Menuet" popular name "Hjertevase" heart vase and is from the "Smoke range" which is designed by Per Lütken and Christer Holmgren in 1960. It is based on items from "Aqua range" designed by Per Lütken in 1955 (some items in Aqua range is from 1953) and went out of production in 1974.
The smoke Menuet vases comes in 4 sizes Kastrup Holmegaard katalog number 160143 12 cm - 160135 10 cm - 160127 8 cm and 160119 5,5 cm.

Some items to thise series do not have names to items but some have - Umanak vases - Menuet vases - Duckling vases - Rondo vases - Hellas vases - Thule vases and bowls - Fiona bowls and ashtray - Selandia bowl.

No name are the well known drope shaped vase, severel differet shaped ashtrays, bowls, icebuckets.

Some of the items you also can refind in the Sapphire and May-Green range allong with new designs.