Mikasa Reproduction of 1930s buying George Sakier Designed Fostoria Clear Geometric 10 Inch Bowl - Absolutely Stunning -Carved Trapezoids

This bowl is stunning. I had no idea what it was, it has no marks, but I knew I liked it because it was such a uniquely shaped piece. Then when I picked it ups to feel all 4 pounds of its weight...I knew I had to buy it. Research was fun!

This is is reproduction of a 1930s art deco bowl designed by George Sakier for Fostoria Glass. Miksa bought the molds and began reproducing the piece in West Germany. The bowl are identical, with the exception of the cross-cross lines. The original did not have the criss cross lines.

It was a reproduction of Fostoria's pattern 2402. It is octagonal. 4 of the sides are triangles, and 4 of the sides are elongated trapezoids. I

It is in excellent vintage condition. I don't even feel a rough area.

You will not be disappointed!

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George Sakier (1897 - 1988) was an industrial designer / artist / engineer. He began his working line and an engineer designing machinery. He became interested in art when he painted camouflage during WWi. Later, he taught machine design and engineering.

He became enamored with art and technology. In the 1920s he worked in art direction for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. For over 50 years, he sent classic and modern Art Deco designs to Fostoria Glass in Moundsville, WV. He designed some of Fostoria's most iconic art deco vases including this vase as well as 2404 (the Lotus vase) and 2428 (the black art deco vases) all made during the 1930s. He was featured in the landmark 1934 article about the new profession of industrial design in Fortune magazine that year, along with Loewy, Dreyfuss, Teague, and other pioneers of the profession.

Later in life, he focused on painting. In his abstract landscapes, land elements were simple buying geometric forms. Mountains and rock become trapezoids, earth and water become rectangles, sun and moon become spherical shapes of color gradients, and his overlapping of shapes create a stained glass effect.

From Industrial Designers Society of America (idsa.org).