Lot 36: Bengt Edenfalk (Swedish, born 1924) 'Talatta' a Vase of smokey glass cased in clear glass, circa 1960

'Talatta' a Vase of smokey glass cased in clear glass, circa 1960
of rounded form, applied with abstract face motifs to the body
19cm high, signed and numbered

Bengt Edenfalk's work on the Thalatta technique at Skruf was most noteworthy. Thalatta glass, like Ariel glass, uses trapped air within layers of thick, colored and/or clear glass to create internal designs. The designs can be figural, geometric or abstract. With Thalatta, the cavities that will become the air designs are created at the glassblower's workbench on a molten gather of glass using hand tools and dyes. After the designs are formed on the surface of the hot melt, another gather of glass is used to entrap the air cavities.