Topic: Amber oval asymmetrical bowl

[Anne]

I'm not sure how best to describe this, it reminds me of a slipper bath more than anything in shape!

It's a shallow oval dish, with a polished pontil mark on the base. The rim has a slight raised thickness to it. The colour is a toffee amber. Size is 10¾" x 7¾" and it is 3½" to the highest point of the rim.  For metric people that equates to 275mm x 198mm, and 89mm high.

There's no evidence of any maker's mark, and I'm stumped as to who might have made it. Any suggestions where to look please?

[rocco]

It does remind me of those IKEA bowls from around 2000, which I see quite often in charity shops and fleamarkets here, usually with the clear plast label with the glassblower:
> Link 1
> Link 2

They have been discussed on the board before, probably made in Poland.

But there is surely the possibility that the similarity is a coincidence, and yours is from a totally different maker...

Michael

[Paul S.]

Similar shapes came from most of the big Scandinavian factories during the '50's and '60's, and Whitefriars/Baxter offered one or two designs vaguely similar ish I believe.     Think we tend to call them 'free-formed' - 'free-blown' or sculptural, and most of the better ones were cased.
But as Michael has said, also knocked out by eastern Europe in more recent times, and probably impossible to id, unless you have the label.
The early ones from Sandinavia were signed, sometimes, Holmegaard for example, and fetch decent money I believe. 

[Anne]

Michael and Paul, thank you - mine looks very much like the blue one Michael linked too, so IKEA it probably is.  Free-form was the term I was hunting for and failed to conjure out of the depths of my memory!

It looks nice on my orange/amber window sill with the big bottle vase and the small Bohemian pot.