This celestial globe is engraved with the twelve signs of the zodiac. Glass engraving was an almost forgotten technique when Orrefors revived the method in the 1910s. Simon Gate and Edward Hald won great international acclaim, enabling the glassworks to start a school for engravers. At most, there were 36 engravers working at the factory at the same time. Hald’s globe was made for the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930. It is a magnificent finale to the heyday of engraved glass in the 1920s.
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This celestial globe is engraved with the twelve signs of the zodiac. Glass engraving was an almost forgotten technique when Orrefors revived the method in the 1910s. Simon Gate and Edward Hald won great international acclaim, enabling the glassworks to start a school for engravers. At most, there were 36 engravers working at the factory at the same time. Hald’s globe was made for the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930. It is a magnificent finale to the heyday of engraved glass in the 1920s.