Swedish mid-century ceramic bowl by Carl-Harry Stalhane for Rorstrand

Gunnar Nylund is one of the most respected Swedish ceramic designers of the 20th century. Nylund began his career at Bing & Grondahl’s Porcelain Factory in Copenhagen (1925-1929) bef...

Inger Birgitta Persson, ceramics designer, was born in Sweden on boxing day 1936. She went to Konstfack University in Stockholm 1955-1959 and during the summer months when she was off from her studies, Inger worked as a handyman for Gustavsbergs Porcelain Factory and Uppsala Ekeby. The years at Konstfack University ended with a degree exhibition resulting in the Director of Rörstrand, Fredrik Wehtje, hiring her. At Rörstrand Persson designed tableware in porcelain and stoneware, vases, pots and small animal...

Inger Birgitta Persson, a ceramics designer, was born in Sweden on boxing day 1936. She went to Konstfack University in Stockholm 1955-1959 and during the summer months when she was off from her studies, Inger worked as a handyman for Gustavsbergs Porcelain Factory and Uppsala Ekeby. The years at Konstfack University ended with a degree exhibition resulting in the Director of Rörstrand, Fredrik Wehtje, hiring her. At Rörstrand Persson designed tableware in porcelain and stoneware, vases, pots and small animal...

Gunnar Nylund is one of the most respected Swedish ceramic designers of the 20th century. Nylund began his career at Bing & Grondahl’s Porcelain Factory in Copenhagen (1925-1929) bef...

A sizable low bowl designed by Carl Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand. Would work well in a variety of applications including as a small fruit bowl, as a catchall, ashtray, etc. Really ni...

Beautiful stoneware platter in a leaf shape by Gunnar Nylund. Purplish brown glaze with contrasting bright blue areas. Gunnar Nylund was one of the most influential ceramicists and designers of the Swedish mid-century period. He was Rörstrand’s creative leader from 1931 until 1949 and as such propelled the artistic work at the factory and served as mentor to younger artists, among them Carl-Harry Stålhane and Hertha Bengtsson. Nylund was a dedicated functionalist, who brought ideas of democratizing stoneware and creating beautiful, qualitative and affordable everyday items for the people to Rörstand in the mid-1920s. The factory had at the time lost its former leading market position, but Nylund’s efforts gave it a great reboot. He designed ceramic kitchenware...

Carl Harry Stålhane (1920-1990) for Rörstrand, Sweden. Ceramic bowl in modernist design with lines in the decoration. Glazed in dark brown shades. Mid-20th century. Marked. In excel...

A lovely mid-century bowl in ceramics with a glaze in a purple, brown, blue-toned glaze from Rörstrand, Sweden, designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane. The bowl is marked as 2nd quality and...