MASSIVE ‘SELANDIA’ CENTERPIECE BOWL BY PER LÜTKEN FOR HOLMEGAARD (c. 1957) DOUGLAS while his statue 'Perseus Triumphant'

while his statue 'Perseus Triumphant' (1800–1801) was the first contemporary work to enter the Vatican Museum when Pope Pius VII acquired it in 1801

all facilities were thoroughly modernized

and vertical lines

His sometimes eccentric forms are made transcendent with the application of an astounding variety of experimental glazes

The importation of foreign silverware was effectively blocked

MASSIVE ‘SELANDIA’ CENTERPIECE BOWL BY PER LÜTKEN FOR HOLMEGAARD (c. 1957) DOUGLAS while his statue 'Perseus Triumphant'A prodigious (40 cm), smoked glass, 'Selandia' series centerpiece dish designed by Per Ltken for the HOLMEGAARD GLASSWORKS of Denmark in the spring of 1957. Just under 16" across, this is by far the largest of these bowls we have ever seen. Fashioned by hand, its shape was created with the help of gravity as the glass blower carefully turned, raised, and lowered the molten glass. The softness of the glass heated to 1400 degrees Celsius seems somehow