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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: bat20 on January 25, 2019, 02:35:31 PM
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Hi,this elegant,sweet bowl ?,is 13cm ht and 20 wd with a polished Pontil and good wear to the foot.The twisted stem makes me think Powell,but I've been down this road so often before !,it could be Scandinavian!?Any thoughts ?thanks
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I think I've found it! and a new name for me,Simon Gate for Sandvik Orrefors 1917 to 1920.Not a classic sounding scandinavian name?,anyone know much about him.
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Swedish Wikipedia has a page on him (in Swedish!) here https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Gate which I ran through Google translator as the English Wikipedia doesn't have him. This was the result:
Simon Gate
Simon Gates art glass 1924
Sörängen's folk high school's dining room
Carl Oskar Simon Gate, born March 10, 1883 in Södra Fågelås parish, died May 11, 1945 in Hälleberga parish, was a Swedish glass artist, painter and designer. He was the brother of architect Jacob J: son Gate and father of Bengt Gate.
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1 Biography
Literature 2
3 References
4 Further reading
5 External links
Biography
Gate studied 1902-1905 at the Higher School of Art and then 1905-1909 at the Academy of Fine Arts. He first appeared as a portrait painter before turning to glass art. [1]
Simon Gate came to Orrefors glassworks in 1916. Before that, he was a book illustrator and portrait painter. Together with Edward Hald, who was employed one year later at Orrefors, he contributed to the company's first heyday. Simon Gate, the managing director Albert Ahlin and the master blower Knut Bergqvist experimented with over glass. Based on this technology, Knut Bergqvist created the summer of 1916 so-called Grail glass. From 1917, such gravel glasses were designed by Simon Gate in collaboration with Knut Bergqvist. Today, the gravel glass from Orrefors belongs to the most sought-after art glass pieces in Sweden and the world.
Together with Knut Bergqvist he also created the so-called The slate glass in dark green or brown colors, which were also not produced in series and which in recent years received a lot of attention in collectors / antique / art circles. Gate was also known for its magnificent engraving compositions from Orrefors. He decorated his urns, vases and trophies with feasts, dancing women and other life-giving motives. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1925, his and Edward Hald's works got their international breakthrough and Orrefors's world reputation. The term "Swedish grace" was coined in England as the Swedish variant of art deco. The artists Gate and Hald, as well as the two Kosta-educated master brothers Knut and Gustav Bergqvist, in Orrefors became a creative melting pot that strongly contributed to the Swedish Glass Kingdom's world fame.
Among Gate's public works, mention should be made of mirrors and glass fixtures in Stockholm's Concert Hall and adornments in the vessel M / S Kungsholm (1928). Gate is represented at, among others, the National Museum [2] in Stockholm, Örebro County Museum [3] and Kalmar Art Museum [4].
At Sörängen's folk high school [5] in Nässjö there is a larger roof painting in the dining room depicting "the four seasons" which is a work by Gate performed in 1915. The dining room is therefore K-marked today.
Simon Gate is buried at Hälleberga cemetery. [6]
Literature
Simon Gate - Edward Hald, a portrayal of the people and the artists by A. Hald and E. Wettergren
Orrefors - One hundred years of Swedish glass art by K. Wickman
Love for glass - Agnes Hellner's collection of Orrefors glass and with memoirs by Agnes Hellner and by Knut Bergqvist.
The history of Swedish antiquities by Märta Holkers.
references
1^ Swedish reference book, Malmö 1932
2^ National Museum
3^ Örebro County Museum
4^ Kalmar Art Museum
5^ Sörängen's website Archived March 16, 2010 downloaded from the Wayback Machine.
6^ Gravar.se
Further reading
Steenberg, Elisa: Simon Gate in Swedish biographical dictionary (1964-1966)
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Simon Gate.
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Thanks Anne,another interesting snippet of information I found was that Hald,the other designer who joined a bit after him,was a painter aswell and had trained with Matisse.