Sweden - Bowls and Baskets

A beautiful stoneware art deco bowl with crackle glaze. Foot and mouth detailed in hand painted gold. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for ALP (Lidköpings Porslinsfabrik), Sweden, 1930s. G...

18th Century unique small neat antique rustic wooden tray / serving bowl with untouched original paint in beautiful English red. The tray is dated...

A large turquoise Midcentury Swedish bowl in stoneware by Rörstrand, designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane at Rörstrand. The bowl is 19,5 cm in diameter and in mint condition. Carl-Harry ...

A serving dish in faience designed by Stig Lindberg at Gustavsberg Studio, it´s 25,5 x 19 cm. It´s in very good condition. It´s marked with the Stig Lindberg characteristic Studio-hand.

A beautiful asymmetric stoneware bowl with amazing hand-painted decor. Designed by Danish artist Vilhelm Bjerke Petersen for Rorstrand, Sweden, 1950s. Great condition. No chips or c...

Sylvia Leuchovius (1915–2003) swedish artist, worked for Rörstrand, Sweden mid-1900s. This large, rare decorative plate / platter with its di...

Rare French mid century wooden ebony rectangular bowl by Odile Noll produced in France ca 1970s. In good original condition and signed by the artist. Dimensions: H: 8 cm / 3.15" W:...

An antique and unique organic wooden bowl. With highly appealing patina, with traces of use. Produced in Sweden, 19th century. The bowl has original paint. Beautiful in any room,a ...

A stoneware Art Deco / Scandinavian Modern bowl with beautiful brown glaze. Foot and mouth hand-painted in gold. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for ALP (Lidköpings Porslinsfabrik), Sweden...

A beautiful miniature stoneware bowl with amazing yellow hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1969. Great conditio...

Unusually large and rare 19th century Swedish folk art bentwood box with a lid. Ca 1800, Sweden.

White melamine "Tongareva" centerpiece. Designed by Enzo Mari in 1969. Produced by Danese Milano in the early 70s. Excellent condition, only some light scratches. Stamped with maker...

A huge and rare eggshell shaped porcelain bowl. Designed by the noted Danish artist Jens Flemming Sorensen, for Royal Copenhagen, Denmark, in the 1980s. Excellent condition. Stam...

Rare pair of antique Swedish sculptural and decorative stone bowl / trays in granite with matching patina. In good original condition. Dimensions: H: 3,5-5,5 cm / 1.4"-2.15" W: 18-...

Black melamine "Colleoni" bowl (Pencil Holder + Paperclip Holder). Designed by Enzo Mari in 1970. Produced by Danese Milano in the early 70s. Excellent condition, only some light sc...

Painted folk art bowl from northern Sweden made during the early 1800s, around 1820. The bowl has an oval shape and has been hollowed out by hand from a single large piece of wood. B...

Scandinavian modern glass tray and bowl designed by Pertti Santalahti for Humppila, Finland 1970s. Clear & amber colored glass.

A beautiful stoneware bowl with amazing hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1969. Great condition. Incised signa...

Unusually large antique mortar from Sweden. The mortar is made by hand in stone and is solid and heavy. Made in Sweden around 1880. Good vintage condition with traces of use. There i...

Large unusual wood bowl with an organic shape just as nature made it. The bowl is a hollowed piece of wood that’s been made from one single piece. There ...

Antique folk art basket from the mid 1800s, a so called cutlery basket. The basket is for storing cutlery and is made by hand in pine in northern Sweden...

A beautiful miniature stoneware bowl with amazing green hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1960s. Great conditio...

A beautiful miniature stoneware bowl with amazing glossy 'aniara' glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1960s. Great condition...

Extremely rare mid-century metal bowl by Ingo Maurer for his company Design M, Germany, 1970s. Excellent original condition. Original sticker. Ingo Maurer was born May 12, 1932 on...

A beautiful stoneware bowl with blue glaze and geometric pattern. Made by renowned Danish ceramist Vibeke Fischer, Denmark, 1980s. Excellent condition. Signed underneath. Vibeke Fi...

Stoneware bowl by Carl-Harry Stålhane with hare’s fur glaze. The bowl is glazed with muted but fiery shades of yellow, orange and brown. The result is a bowl...

A beautiful 'Swedish Modern' stoneware footed bowl with white 'Carrara' glaze. Made by Wilhelm Kåge at Gustavsberg in Sweden, 1930s. Great condition. Stamped 'Gustavsberg / CARRAR...

A small beautiful stoneware bowl with amazing glaze. Made by Claes Thell, in the artist's studio, Höganäs, Sweden, 1967. Excellent condition. Signed Thell '66. Claes Thell is a Sw...

Beautiful 'Våga' bowl. Stoneware with white 'Carrara' glaze. Made by Wilhelm Kåge at Gustavsberg Studio in Sweden, 1940s. Swedish Grace. Great condition. Some metal marks. Impresse...

Small green glazed ceramic pencil tray, with silver motif of Gustavsberg village sky/city-line, designed by Sven Johnson as a homage to the city where the factory of Gustavsberg sits...

A beautiful stoneware bowl with amazing hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1962. Great condition. Incised signa...

Lovely “Veckla” bowl by Stig Lindberg, white carrara stoneware. Folded form. Good vintage condition, wear and patina consistent with age and use. Blemishes as seen on the pictures.

Stoneware dish / plate made by Norwegian ceramic artist Jens von der Lippe. Earth colored wabi-sabi style.

Unique stoneware floor vase by Stig Lindberg, in a whimsical design of a large vase and a small one attached to each other. Sleek forms with rich, vibrant oxblood red glaze with aqua...

A set of three beautiful porcelain crown window bowls. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for Rorstrand, Sweden, 1933. Excellent condition. First sorting. Stamped 'Rörstrand' and 'Sweden'....

A beautiful stoneware bowl with an amazing glaze. Made by Arthur Andersson for Wallakra, Sweden, 1950s Great condition. Impressed with makers mark 'Wallåkra'. Arthur Andersson was...

A beautiful miniature stoneware bowl with amazing glossy glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1960s. Great condition. Incise...

Very rare and early French mid century hand painted stoneware bowl in white, pink and green by Georges Jouve produced in France, 1940s. In good original condition with beautiful crac...

Excitingly shaped large Italian Murano bowl dating to the 1960s. Very rich and variated colors in different layers.

A beautiful stoneware bowl with amazing hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden. Excellent condition. Incised signatur...

A large and rare dish with amazing lustre glaze and hand painted gold details. Scandinavian Grace / Art Deco. Made by Josef Ekberg at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1930s. Great condition. Th...

Unusually large wooden bowl in untouched original condition. The bowl is made from birch root and because of that organically shaped. Original hinges in handwrought iron. The red pai...

A beautiful stoneware bowl with amazing glaze. Made by Tyra Lundgren. Executed during the artist's time spent at Sèvres, between 1934-1939. Excellent condition. Impressed with artist's name and maker's marks. Tyra Lundgren (1897-1979) was one of the most multifaceted artists and modernists of the twentieth century. She was a painter, drawer, sculptor, ceramist, glass- and textile designer, as well as an author and an art critic. She was the first woman who designed glass for Paolo Venini at Murano in Venice and she also served as the artistic leader at Arabia in Helsinki at a time when men tended to hold those kinds of positions. Tyra Lundgren grew up in Djursholm, near Stockholm. Her parents were John Petter Lundgren, professor at Veterinärinstitutet (institute of veterinary sciences) in Stockholm, and Edith Lundgren née Åberg, who was a housewife and raised their six children. The bourgeois home also comprised a nanny and a female cook. The family were very socially active, travelled often, and enjoyed the outdoor lifestyle. Tyra Lundgren’s schooling began at Djursholm coeducational school, where her teachers included Natanael and Elsa Beskow and Alice Tegnér. Her school friends included Greta Knutson-Tzara, Stellan Mörner, and Ingrid Rydbeck-Zuhr. Tyra Lundgren knew from the time she was five years old that she wanted to be an artist. She first became aware of the profession through Axel Fahlcrantz, who rented a studio on the plot of land where she lived with her family. In 1913 she began to attend Högre konstindustriella skolan (HKS, now known as Konstfack, college of arts, crafts and design) where she studied decorative art as well as handicrafts in various forms until 1917. One of her fellow students and friends there was Estrid Ericson, who later founded Svenskt Tenn AB in 1924. Whilst attending HKS Tyra Lundgren also took painting lessons at the Althin school of painting. In 1917 she was accepted as a candidate at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts where, apart from breaks during which she undertook studies abroad, she remained until 1922. She spent a couple of months taking lessons from Anton Hanak in Vienna and from 1920–1923 she was a student of André Lhote in Paris. Tyra Lundgren was primarily active in four countries: Sweden, Finland, France, and Italy. She spent much of her professional life travelling and considered herself to be a European. Greece and Mexico also formed important centres in her artistic life, as did the USA. She had an extensive social network which included focal individuals within twentieth century-European and American artistic and cultural circles. Tyra Lundgren’s main artistic motifs were birds, fish, and people which she depicted through different techniques and materials. Her artistic expression involved a variety of different directions and styles. She was a pioneer of the 1920s Swedish Grace style, the name of which had been coined by the art critic Morton Shand at the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930. This was a Swedish Art Deco style, characterised by elegance and traditional art which contrasted with the current artistic ideals of functionalism. Tyra Lundgren made her debut at a group exhibition held at Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna in 1921. She went on to show her work at various exhibitions throughout the 1920s. After that period she only very rarely exhibited her paintings. Tyra Lundgren’s painted output can be divided into different periods or stylistic directions. The first of these, and the most extensive, was her post-Cubist period which began in 1920 on her arrival in Paris. Her paintings from this time and right up to the mid-1930s typically comprise portraits, self-portraits, live-model painting, still-lifes, interiors, and landscapes in the Cubist style. Many of the great number of self-portraits she painted were produced in the New Objective style, displaying broad variation in terms of clothes, poses and techniques. Two of these – Huvud med vit duk and Självporträtt both from 1921 – can be seen at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, although the majority of these works are at Gotlands Museum. Tyra Lundgren’s second artistic period comprises the years of 1927 to 1929 and is characterised by the New Objective style inspired by medieval techniques and materials (Giotto, Piero della Francesca). Her motifs were still-lifes and landscapes. At this point she was living in Rome and was close to the circle involved in the Valori plastici: rivista d’arte art journal. This period saw a breakthrough in her development as a painter. From the 1950s through the 1970s her work can almost be described as belonging to the Concrete style. Using light pastel colours her paintings sought light in a sometimes non-figurative expression, but often depicting abstract bird-shapes or other nature-inspired imagery. Her paintings from this period are outsized and display powerful colours, in yellows, reds, and blues. Tyra Lundgren maintained a constant production of drawings, both in terms of individual artworks and sketches for patterns and designs. She also produced the illustrations for her book Fagert i Fide. Årstiderna på en gammal gotlandsgård, published in 1961. During her early years she also produced advertising illustrations. She spent the final years of her life primarily working with lithographs which were printed at Galleri Prisma and depicted images of doves, swallows, magpies and crows. Tyra Lundgren is meanwhile best known for her work as a ceramist and in this sphere she was one of Sweden’s leading exponents. She worked in the porcelain industry as a designer and as an artisan and ceramic sculptor. Her first job was at St Eriks Lervarufabrik in Uppsala from 1922–1924, she then worked at Arabia from 1924–1937, and at Rörstrand and Lidköping Porslinsfabrik. She was the artistic leader at Arabia ahead of the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition and she exhibited her work at the World’s Fairs. During the 1934–1938 period she was connected to the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres porcelain factory in Paris. Tyra Lundgren was a pioneer when it came to giving ceramic art a public space in Sweden. She produced around 20 outsized reliefs in stoneware, so-called monumental reliefs. One of these is Märkeskvinnor, from 1947, for the former girls’ school at Bohusgatan in Stockholm. From the 1940s onwards Tyra Lundgren produced sculptural objects in Chamotte clay and stoneware, with various glazings. Her small birds are well-known and popular with many. When her ceramic efforts became too much for her during the 1970s she then produced models for sculptures in bronze. There are six of these in various places around the globe, including Solfågel in Almedalen, Visby. Tyra Lundgren began to work as a glassware designer at Moser in Karlsbad in 1922 where she designed new table services and modernised older ones. She also worked freelance for Riihimäki factory in Finland during the 1924–1929 period. From 1934 to 1938 she was employed by Kosta glass factory where she mainly designed thick-walled bowls and vases, engraved with classical motifs. She was introduced to the glassmaker Paolo Venini at Murano during the Triennale di Milano of 1936 and they began a collaboration that lasted into the 1950s. As part of this collaboration Tyra Lundgren became the first woman to design glassware and, in conjunction with the glassblower Arturo Biasutto, she developed new techniques of glass production. Her motifs at this point were birds, fish, snail-shaped designs and leaf-patterned bowls using traditional techniques as well as in new designs. It was during this time that she created the so-called tissue-shaped bowls and it remains unclear as to who specifically came up with the design but Tyra Lundgren claimed it was of her making. Tyra Lundgren was active as textile designer for Licium (now HV Licium), the sacred textiles...

A beautiful and unique hand thrown stoneware bowl, with amazing glaze. Made by Liisa Hallamaa at Arabia, Finland, 1960s. Excellent condition. Incised signature "LH" and "ARABIA". Liisa Kaarina Hallamaa was a Finnish ceramist. She graduated from the ceramics department of the Central School of Art and Industry in 1949. She started working at Arabia as early as 1945 and worked as an artist in its art department from 1957 to 1971. Her work was characterised by large vases and vases. The materials used were chamotte and stoneware. He also worked as an assistant to Aune Siimes...

A beautiful stoneware bowl with amazing glaze. Made by Claes Thell, in the artist's studio, Höganäs, Sweden, 1967. Excellent condition. Signed Thell '67. Claes Thell is a Swedish ...

A beautiful and rare stoneware bowl with amazing glaze. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for Rorstrand, Sweden, 1950s. Excellent condition. Incised signature 'G.N.' and makers mark 'R' ...

Lovely “Pungo” vase by Stig Lindberg, made in smooth carrara stoneware. Streamlined, plunging, ingenious design.

A rare and small decorative mid century pink and yellow glazed stoneware box with a green inside by the Swedish ceramist Hans Hedberg produced by Biot in southern of France, 1950s. ...

Large and decorative Swedish burl knot wood bowl -1986. Good vintage condition, wear and patina consistent with age and use.

A beautiful stoneware bowl with amazing glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1975. Great condition. Incised signature 'Fribe...

Unique stoneware bowl by Bengt Berglund, in an organic form with an undulating edge. Beautiful green and ochre glazed inside, unglazed outside with an embossed graphic pattern.

A beautiful stoneware art deco bowl with crackle glaze. Foot and mouth detailed in hand painted gold. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for ALP (Lidköpings Porslinsfabrik), Sweden, 1930s. G...

A beautiful small stoneware art deco bowl with crackle glaze. Foot and mouth detailed in hand painted gold. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for ALP (Lidköpings Porslinsfabrik), Sweden, 193...

Elegant crackle glazed bowl with gilded banding on the rim and base. Made by KPM, Kjöbenhavns Porcellains Maleri, Denmark, 1930s. Great condition. ...

Three Delicate Bowls: The Art of Priscilla Mouritzen, a renowned ceramicist and artist with roots in South Africa and an international career. Born in 1945, she trained in ceramics i...

A beautiful and unique hand thrown stoneware bowl, with amazing glaze. Made by Raija Tuumi at Arabia, Finland, 1960s. Excellent condition. Incised signature "RT" and "ARABIA". Ceramic artist Raija Tuumi (1923–2016) represents a generation of artists who, after the war, helped make Finland’s art industry internationally famous. The ceramic artists and their visibility at international exhibitions played a significant role in putting Finnish art on the world map. Raised in Kiukais in Satakunta, Finland, Raija Tuumi first discovered artistic expression through weaving. However local potters, raised her interest in an alternative material. After many different phases in her life Tuumi ended up studying in Ateneum’s ceramics department between 1946 and 1949, during which she found her own strong style. The students’ training included periods in workshops in Finland, where she encountered potters’ large dough and butter milk pots and other dishes that inspired Tuumi to work on large sculptural objects. Tuumi studied in the ceramics department along side with other ceramisist, including Ulla Procopé, Annikki Hovisaari, Dorrit Flinckenberg, Vuokko Eskolin...

Ceramic Bowl by Carl-Harry Stålhane, 1960's Additional Information: Material: Ceramic Style: Mid century, Scandinavian Produced by Rörstrand in Sweden Dimensions (W x D x H): 18.5 x...

A beautiful faience bowl with amazing geometric pattern. Designed by Stig Lindberg in Gustavsberg Studio, Sweden, 1950s. Excellent condition. Signed with the Gustavsberg studio hand...

A beautiful stoneware art deco dish with crackle glaze. Details in hand painted gold. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for ALP (Lidköpings Porslinsfabrik), Sweden, 1930s. Great condition. ...

Two Scandinavian Modern rice grain porcelain bowl by Friedl Holzer-Kjellberg for Arabia in Finland. A delicate "rice grain" porcelain bowl designed by the Finnish artist Friedl Holz...