The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 20, 2025
Zebra Vase
1939
designer
(Swedish, 1904–1983)
manufacturer
(Swedish, est. 1898)
Diameter: 15.8 cm (6 1/4 in.); Overall: 23.2 cm (9 1/8 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1939.676
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
This vase is Graal glass, a popular art glass technique in the 1930s known for trapping color between layers of clear glass.Description
Victor Emanuel “Vicke” Lindstrand’s award-winning designs are most often associated with the intricate Graal glass technique, in which different layers of glass are molded together. Lindstrand’s objects were displayed internationally, including at the 1939 New York’s World Fair, the same year as this Zebra Vase was produced and acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art.- Huldt, Åke. Konsthantverk och hemslöjd i Sverige 1930-1940. Gothenburg, Sweden: Bokförmedlingen, 1941. Rep. 98 (Pl. II)Ericsson, Anne-Marie, Derek E. Ostergard, and Nina Stritzler-Levine. The Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918-1939: An Alliance of Art and Industry. New Haven, CT: Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts by Yale University Press, 1996. Discussed: Pg. 297, Reproduced: Pg. 297 (Cat. No. 145)Hawley, Henry H. Glass Today: American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997. Reproduced and mentioned: fig. 8, p. 15
- Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 11, 2019-February 10, 2020).The Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918-1939: An Alliance of Art and Industry. Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture (organizer) (November 20, 1996-March 2, 1997).
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