Featured Aimo Okkolin Riihimäen Lasi Oy - large heavy vase with cut roses

Just posted to the Facebook art glass group today - there's also a facebook finnish design art glass group - which i've requested to join. I'll plan on posting to glassmessages too

 

Thanks everyone for your help/advice - I've now posted to glassmessages - we'll see

 

That is a fantastic piece. Great find

 

Thanks

 

Unbelievably beautiful. Gorgeous color, design and at 16" and 17lbs, monumental.

Let us know what the glass group says.

What a stunning find.

Congratulations.

 

I've posted to 2 FB groups now, and the glass messages board, and I've just now emailed the Finnish glass museum. Hopefully some more information will surface soon

 

I’ll bet the Pinterest people are going crazy over your pics!
Hope you get good news soon!

 

Fine photo's......as always !!!
The 1st looks like a still life painting.......

Great find !

 

Got a great reply from the Finnish museum of glass. I could try to summarize but I'll just copy their reply here...

Hello,

In the collection of the Finnish Glass Museum we have the same shape and the same colour vase than yours. Our vase does not have any flower pattern but it has cut facets. Our vase does not have any signature. We have got the vase in 1967 from Riihimäen Lasi Oy.


As indicated by the signature of your vase the manufacturer is Riihimäen Lasi Oy (=Riihimäki glass factory) and the decoration has cut by Aimo Okkolin in 1946.


We do not know if Aimo Okkolin has designed the flower pattern by himself but we know that he has cut it. We do not know who has designed the shape of the vase.


I could not find the model of the vase from Riihimäki catalogs. So the vase is not the serial production of Riihimäki but some special work.


I sent the photo of your vase to Aimo Okkolin´s daughter Anita Elomaa who lives here in Riihimäki. Anita could only say that her father has cut the decoration of the vase. She did not know more.


Aimo Okkolin was very skillful glass cutter and engraver later also glass designer. Attached some information about him from the book: The Bulletin of the Finnish Glass Museum GLASS RESEARCH XV (2004) Lumpeenkukka Aimo Okkolin, Suomen lasimuseo, Riihimäki 2004.


With best regards

 

Happy for you to have gotten some news! And some form of authentication!
So you could use the term
Museum Quality without hesitation!

 

Three cheers for the Finnish Glass Museum!
Don

 

You must post this in “Great Finnishes” thread !

 

Yes! They went above and beyond - they even sent my pictures to Okkolin's daughter, who confirmed that her father did the engraving...amazing.

 

Ha!

 

That is wonderful they replied to you Aaron you should copy the message and keep it with the vase.

 

Great idea!

Congratulations, Aaron. One could tell it was really a fantastic find from your photos. I kept thinking about it for days after you posted. How exciting!

 

Great idea - definitely going to do that!

 

Very exciting! I've kept it occupying the corner of my desk - and it's even more beautiful now that I know more of it's history

 

The moment I clapped my eyes on the first photo my heart skipped a beat at the beauty of the vase, what a WONDERFUL find .. Congratulations !!!! .. Joy.