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Burlington Magazine, April, 1994, Opie,J:..."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Ann-Marie Herlitz-Gezelius. <u> Orrefors: A Swedish Glassplant</u>.  Stockholm: Atlantis Publishers, 1984.  See pp. 30-31 for the archive photo of c. 1918 showing the Orrefors display including this glass on the left."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"The 'Graal' technque was developed by Knut Bergvist, with the designers Simon Gate and Edward Hald and first launched in 1916.  The first gather of glass is engraved or acid-etched with a pattern and then covered with further layers of glass, some of them coloured.  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