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Title:Cactus Exhibition (Kaktusutställningen)
Designer:Edward Hald (Swedish, Stockholm 1883–1980)
Manufacturer:Orrefors Glasbruk
Date:1926
Medium:Glass
Dimensions:a - vase: 7 1/8 × 7 5/8 in., 2.6 lb. (18.1 × 19.4 cm, 1.2 kg) b - tray: 7/8 × 8 3/4 in., 0.8 lb. (2.2 × 22.2 cm, 0.4 kg)
Classification:Glass
Credit Line:Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1927
Object Number:27.96.3ab
Inscription: Signed, dated, and inscribed (on base of vase): Orrefors. Hald. 562.26 / W E
the manufacturer (until 1927; sold through the Swedish Association of Arts and Crafts to MMA)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Exhibition of Swedish Contemporary Decorative Arts," January 18–February 27, 1927, under no. 29 (p. 34).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Glass, 1500 B.C.–A.D. 1935," October 14–November 29, 1936, unnumbered cat.
New York. Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. "The Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918–1939: An Alliance of Art and Industry," November 21, 1996–March 2, 1997, no. 58.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "A Century of Design, Part ll: 1925–1950," May 9–October 29, 2000, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Making The Met, 1870–2020," August 29, 2020–January 3, 2021, unnumbered cat. (fig. 175; as "Cactus Exhibition (Kaktusutstallningen) vase").
Erik Wettergren. The Modern Decorative Arts of Sweden. Rev. English ed. (French ed., 1925). Malmö, 1926, p. 26.
"Europaisches Kunstgewerbe 1027: Betrachtungen nur Leipzieger Ausstellung." Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration 60 (August 1927), ill. p. 354.
Erik Wettergren. Simon Gate, Edward Hald: En skildring av människorna och konstnärerna. Stockholm, 1948, p. 93.
Alastair Duncan. Orrefors Glass. Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1995, p. 110.
Derek E. Ostergard inThe Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918–1939: An Alliance of Art and Industry. Ed. Derek E. Ostergard and Nina Stritzler-Levine. Exh. cat., Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York. New York, 1996, pp. 141–43, 147–49, 155 n. 47, p. 215, no. 58, ill. (color), figs. 10-3 (installation view, Exh. New York 1927), 10-8 (installation view, Exh. New York 1936).
Douglas Eklund, Marilyn F. Friedman, and Randall R. Griffey inMaking The Met, 1870–2020. Ed. Andrea Bayer with Laura D. Corey. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2020, pp. 162, 253, fig. 175 (color).
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