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Mistletoe Bowl
Mistletoe Bowl

Mistletoe Bowl

Artist (Ay, France, 1860 - 1945)
Date1920-1930
Object NameBowl
Mediumglass
ClassificationsApplied Art
Dimensions10 × 23.5cm
CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0
LocationOn Display - Gallery 12
Object numberABDAG011042
About MeOpalescent glass bowl with mistletoe relief pattern around the exterior. The bowl was designed in the 1920s by Rene Lalique, a leading French Art Nouveau jewellery and glassmaker. He manufactured a wide and imaginative range of decorative wares including vases, statuettes, car mascots, scent bottles and lamps.
More About Me
In Norse mythology, the tears of the grieving Frigg became the mistletoe’s berries after the mischievous Loki tricked Hod into using a weapon made of mistletoe to kill her son, Baldr.
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