1940s Retro Japanese Gansai Watercolor Set foliage Trained artisans cut and collage

Trained artisans cut and collage our designs onto handblown glass

"Benzaldehyde" created in 1866

Painted carved wood from the Black Forest

Do not bleach

6" Diameter x 4

1940s Retro Japanese Gansai Watercolor Set foliage Trained artisans cut and collageThe 1940s Wartime rages on in this set, beginning with a punchy blood red amongst luscious jewel tones. Decadent emerald greens together with burnt yellow and tangerine recall Picassos paintings of seated women. Vivid blues and a rich purple represent the patriotic sentiments of life on the home front. These colours are symbolic of a tumultuous decade full of revolution: the wartime inventions, the end of Modernism, the bold motifs of wartime