This extra large vase is part of the fossil series created by Kjell Engman for the famed Swedish glassmaker Kosta Boda. The body of this unusual and artistic vase resembles mottled silvery gray stone.
A glass medallion with the frosted image of a trilobite is applied to the front, looking like a fossil embedded in rock. Trilobites were one of the earliest known groups of arthropods, first appearing 521 million years ago. They died out around 251.9 million years ago, leaving behind their fossilized exoskeletons.
Kosta Boda is famous for its fine glassworks and its creative avant-garde designs. Its history can be traced back to 1742, when a glassworks was founded in Kosta, Sweden. Although the company originally made utilitarian glass, beginning in 1898, it began to hire its own glass designers. Kjell Engman is part of this tradition, joining Kosta Boda in 1978. He is one of Sweden’s leading glass artists and examples of his work are in the Swedish National Museum of Art and Design.
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