1960s Danish Holmegaard Green Art Glass GUL Vase. Created by Danish designer Otto Brauer (1911-1984). Mid Century Modern style with a stout wide body, thin tall neck, and heavily flared rim. Company label near bottom. 

Size: 5 x 5 x 12 in. 

Holmegaard Glass Factory (Holmegaards Glasværk) was founded in 1823 after Count Christian Conrad Sophus Danneskiold-Samsøe petitioned the Danish king for permission to build a glass factory at Holmegaard Mose, just outside Næstved. Although he died before permission was granted, his widow Henriette pursued the project, and the factory began by producing simple green bottles in 1825, moving on to table-glass within its first decade. Little of its early work survives, but the company was consistently active, helping to establish the town of Fensmark around it by employing most of the local populace. Between the 1930s and the 1980s it gained recognition outside of Denmark for the designs of Jacob E. Bang (1899-1965), Per Lütken (1916-98), and Bang’s son, Michael (1944-2002). Lütken’s pieces are particularly sought after, as he produced most of the factory’s “classic” glasses for over fifty years, working right up until his death. In 1995 the packaging division of the company was sold to Ardagh, and is now called Ardagh Glass Holmegaard. The art division was sold in 2004 to the development company Ibco, which added an experience center/museum called Holmegaard Entertainment. In 2008 it went bankrupt, and the Holmegaard brand was taken over by Rosendahl A/S. The old glassworks building in Holmegaard was put up for auction in 2010, and was taken over by Danish Sparekassen Faaborg. In 2020 the newly renovated facility reopened under the name Holmegaard Værk. It is a museum exhibiting 40,000 Holmegaard products in its collection, with various glass artists demonstrating how to work with glass in a small adjacent studio.