French Ceramist, Two Round Serving Dishes in Glazed Stoneware

French ceramist. Two round serving dishes / bowls in glazed stoneware. Beautiful glaze in azure shades. Unique, high-quality ceramics. Mid-20th century. Measures: 32.5 x 5.5 cm. I...

Sven Jonson (1919-1989) Gustavsberg. Three Lagun dishes in glazed stoneware. Beautiful glaze in shades of blue. 1970s. Largest measures: 25 x 25 x 5 cm. In excellent condition....

This partially glazed stoneware dish is by a Danish ceramist The large stoneware dish/bowl is partially glazed. It was made in Denmark ca. in the 1960s. The dish is signed B. C. Arten

Pair of resin dishes in glazed terracotta. In the South West of France, the country named Landes was a poor country having very few natural resources, the inhabitants lived on meager harvests whose land was manured by their flocks of sheep. The Landais also exploited the resin of the maritime pine: it was collected at the foot of the tree using a very artisanal technique which offered low yields: tapping with “crot” (from the Gascon cròt: hole). To harvest the resin, ancient resin workers dug a hole at the foot of the pine, generally between the roots, which they lined with moss. The resin obtained, if it had not crystallized on the care before arriving at the base of the pine, was full of impurities: twigs, sand, insects, and it contained very little turpentine. A first progress was to put dishes at the bottom of these holes which made it possible to collect the resin with fewer impurities, In 1844, the resin pot...