This is an impressive sized handsome Black-Throated Diver bird measuring 37cm from beak to tail. It has several layers of glass starting from white inside and on top a clear layer and then on top of that the decorative white and greenish filigree. The greenish filigree and the beak is lustered. On the bottom there is lilac color on the tail part.
This model is illustrated on page 63 in the book "Toikan Lasilinnut-Toikka's Glass Birds" and on page 32 in the book "Birds by Toikka" and on page 75 in the book "In Oiva's Wonderland". This model was in production between 1991-1994.
Design by famous professor Oiva Toikka and hand made in legendary Nuutajärvi glass factory in Finland.
This bird that is not signed, is from a collection that belonged to a person who worked at the Nuutajärvi glass factory.
Size: 370mm x 190mm
Condition: very good (normal color irregularities on the beak)
Signature: no
