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Title: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: Pinkspoons on August 24, 2022, 12:22:51 PM: I found a little information that this shape was only available in 135mm, 180m, and 225mm heights when it was introduced in 1956.

It seems the range was increased in height. The two tallest vases pictured here are a whopping 340mm tall, and the smallest 260mm.

I don't suppose anyone is familiar with them?
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 24, 2022, 07:30:11 PM: hiya Nic! :)
I think I had a small grey one, once. So not completely unfamiliar. ;)
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: Pinkspoons on August 24, 2022, 07:55:36 PM: Hullo Sue!

These larger ones seem to be quite elusive. The only ones I've found so far were on the cover of a booklet called 'Orrefors 100 år': https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/31012157977.jpg
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 24, 2022, 08:03:07 PM: I don't think I've seen any others, not even small ones. If you're looking at/for glass they do stand out a bit, because of the slightly unusual gentle tapering from base to rim.
I found mine several long years ago, but passed it on. :)
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: Pinkspoons on August 25, 2022, 01:17:51 AM: I bought these about 5-6 years ago with some really very lovely and also very tall Ingeborg Lundin hourglass vases, and for some reason these ones ended up in storage. They've got a very nice organic feel to them - especially the slightly wonky rims.
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 25, 2022, 12:44:50 PM: I suspect you may have been a bit overwhelmed by the Lundins. ;D
But these do sing very sweetly of quality.
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: essi on August 26, 2022, 04:49:40 PM: In the Swedish glass factories book, the catalogue for 1956 gives two sizes for PU 3579/6 225mm and 320mm.
It also shows only one colourway steel grey.
in the 1960 catalogue i cant find that same pattern number but there is pattern number PU3630/3 which is very close to your ones with a height of 290 mm.
The catalogues end in 1960 but maybe that vase continued to be developed and different heights and colours were made.
Hope this was of some use.
Tim
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 26, 2022, 04:59:31 PM: Thanks Tim. :)
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: Pinkspoons on August 27, 2022, 02:26:07 PM: Thank you so very much for taking a look. The information I found for the much smaller sizes must have been incorrect.

The vases seem to be free-blown, or at least extensively worked after being mould-blown, so that might (at a push) place the different heights within the scope of handmade variation, but the two larger ones being more or less the same size reduces that possibility.

Might they be reliably dated to a specific production period via the labels?
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: taylog1 on August 27, 2022, 04:52:16 PM: And not to be confused with these Orrefors Lindstrand bits:
https://fieldingsauctioneers.co.uk/lot/240992
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 27, 2022, 05:15:54 PM: I nearly had a small panic there, Gareth! :-* But it is very different, isn't it. Sloped rim, a bulge in the body and the colour is diffused.

The label on the small grey one I had, I am sure, was silver. It was all worn down though. It could have had red and gold on top before it got worn off. It was the right shape! :)
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: taylog1 on August 27, 2022, 07:10:31 PM: Yes definitely different, but you can see the similarities.
Here are a few more with different colours:
https://www.jacksons.se/products/group-of-large-lindstrand-vases-4900
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: essi on August 27, 2022, 08:06:43 PM: On the GMB search archive there is a title,(Gate,thousand islands) . Reply # 11 is from Bill G.
His reply is dated Nov 26 2008.
It may help with the dating of labels.
I will learn doing links one day.
Tim
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 27, 2022, 08:17:49 PM: I can do links, but not searches.
It brought me straight back to your post here Tim, and that was the only one. ;D
Bill's comments would be very valuable. He s the author of Scandanavian Glass, Creative Energies.
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: essi on August 27, 2022, 08:27:52 PM: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,4097.0.html
Maybe this one ?
Tim
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: essi on August 27, 2022, 08:29:13 PM: :) :) :) it was that simple, i cant believe it :) :) :)
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: taylog1 on August 27, 2022, 08:53:51 PM: I also just saw this one, Sven Palmqvist expo 1954, again a lot of similarities.
https://auctionet.com/en/2387784-sven-palmqvist-vase-orrefors-expo-1954
I assume that the best expo’s are tweaked for production ?
Title: Re: Orrefors, Sven Palmqvist, #3579/6 vases in some very tall sizes.
Post by: Pinkspoons on August 28, 2022, 12:17:15 AM: Interesting link for the label, thanks. This one was discontinued in 1960, so that gives a cut-off date!