Cathrine Raben Davidsen, 2025
ALCHEMIST VASE
Collector work
DKK 16,500
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ALCHEMIST VASE extends Cathrine Raben Davidsen's interest in transformation into glass, a material that is itself made by turning sand and heat into something clear and permanent.
Lead time: 6 weeks
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Includes a signed certificate of authenticity confirming edition and provenance.
- Artist
- Cathrine Raben Davidsen
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Glass
- Dimensions
- 260 X 200 X 200 mm.
- Edition
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
The work
Blown and shaped by hand, the vessel carries the small irregularities of its making, the faint movement and bubbles that mark glass worked by a person rather than a machine. Light passes through it and pools inside, changing across the day.
The title fits the process as much as the form: raw matter altered by fire into an object that seems to hold light rather than simply contain it.
Materials & making
Mouth-blown glass
Glass is made in minutes and cooled for hours. Molten at over a thousand degrees, it is gathered, blown and shaped while it moves, a material that records the breath and timing of the person making it. No two pieces cool exactly alike.
- Material
- Glass
- Dimensions
- 260 X 200 X 200 mm.
- Edition
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
01
Gathering
Molten glass is gathered from the furnace onto a blowing iron at working temperature.
02
Blowing and shaping
The glassblower inflates and turns the gather, shaping it by hand and tool while it is still soft.
03
Forming
The piece is worked toward its final form; colour, wall and profile are set before the glass stiffens.
04
Annealing
Finished glass is cooled slowly over hours in a controlled oven so it settles free of internal stress.
Made at
Holmegaard
Denmark · Est. 1825
Holmegaard has made glass in Denmark since 1825 and remains one of Scandinavia's most storied glassworks. Each piece is mouth-blown and shaped by hand, continuing a craft tradition central to Danish design.
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The artist
Cathrine Raben Davidsen
1972, Copenhagen, Denmark · Painting, Ceramics, Drawing, Printmaking
Cathrine Raben Davidsen's work delves into existential questions of life, death and transformation, drawing on mythology, history and personal narrative. She is recognised for atmospheric painting and a multidisciplinary approach that extends into ceramics, textiles and stage design.
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- Artist
- Cathrine Raben Davidsen
- Title
- ALCHEMIST VASE
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Glass
- Dimensions
- 260 X 200 X 200 mm.
- Edition size
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
- Provenance
- First sale, Edition Solenne
- Lead time
- 6 weeks
- Certificate
- Signed certificate of authenticity included
- Returns
- Made to order. Sales are final once production begins; contact us within 7 days if the work arrives damaged.
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