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Lisa Bauer
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Lisa Bauer worked as a glass designer at Kosta and Kosta Boda during the mid-to-late twentieth century, producing a body of work that sits at the intersection of utilitarian craft and fine art glass. Her output spans bowls, goblets, vases, and commemorative pieces, most of them distinguished by precisely etched or engraved botanical decoration - roses, linnea flowers, bluebells - rendered with a delicacy that reflects both a thorough command of glass as a medium and a consistent design sensibility.
Among her best-known designs is the "Linnea" bowl, produced in a numbered series (the documented piece numbered 79/225 and dated 1978) with engraved linnea-flower decoration. This series was designed in collaboration with Leif Swahn. Another recurring form is the "Rosenskål" - a rose bowl with engraved floral decoration - which appears in multiple variants across the auction record. Bauer also collaborated with Sigurd Persson, one of the major figures in Swedish post-war design, on glass vases with plant decoration during the period 1969-1974. The range of her collaborators speaks to the serious standing she held within the Kosta design environment.
Bauer's work includes pieces made for ceremonial and institutional use. Several lots in the auction record carry the inscription "För nit och redlighet i rikets tjänst" (For zeal and honesty in the service of the kingdom), a formula used on Swedish state merit awards - indicating that her glass was trusted for official gift-giving at the highest levels. Her designs are documented in "The Kosta Boda Book of Glass", the standard reference publication for the factory's output.
At auction, Bauer's glass appears consistently across a broad range of Swedish houses: Crafoord Auktioner in Malmö, Södersens Auktionshus in Bålsta, Metropol, Karlstad Hammarö Auktionsverk, and Markus Auktioner, among others. With 29 lots catalogued on Auctionist, her work reaches collectors who value mid-century Scandinavian glass design. Prices are typically modest - ranging from a few hundred to 700 SEK for signed pieces - placing her in an accessible segment of the Swedish art glass market where quality and authenticity are the main drivers of interest.