Scandinavian Modern Bowls and Baskets

Large beautiful stoneware bowl handmade at Søholm Stoneware, Denmark in the 1970s. The bowl is hand decorated with a Japanese inspired floral motif depicting a stylized "Lily of the valley" and finished with a wonderful speckled glazing. Soft earth tones. Stamped underneath. The Søholm Pottery on the small island of Bornholm in Denmark was established in 1836 and closed in 1996. They were one of Denmarks finest ceramics workshops. With traditional names such as "Søholm", "Michael Andersen" and "Hjorth's Keramik", Bornholm has managed to place itself heavily on the Danish map within ceramics and handicrafts. Just like Japanese ceramics, Bornholm ceramics...

Scandinavian Modern bowl in pewter by Rolf Engströmer for Fabriksaktiebolaget Kronsilver -1935. Good vintage condition, wear and patina consistent with age and use. Marks, scratches,...

Root bowl made in Sweden during the 19th century. Big and unusual size.

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' ...

Solid teak bowl  

A set of two beautiful 'Våga' bowls. Stoneware with white 'Carrara' glaze. Made by Wilhelm Kåge at Gustavsberg Studio in Sweden, 1940s. Swedish Grace. Great condition. Stamped with...

Height 2 cm Width 4 cm Depth 4 cm Height 2 cm Width 2.5 cm Depth 2.5 cm Height 2 cm Width 2.5 cm Depth 2.5 cm This set of 3 miniature bowls was designed by John Andersson for ...

Scandinavian Modern hand built bowl by artist Bengt, Berglund. The asymmetric form are typical for Bengt Berglunds design series with organic shapes produced at Gustavsberg Studio be...

Heidi Fournier for Kähler, Denmark. Large ceramic bowl. Floral motifs on a cream-coloured base. Approximately from the 1960s. In perfect condition with natural crackling from produc...

Gunnar Nylund Stoneware "GN ARU" Blue Bowl for Rörstrand, Sweden, 1960s Beautiful stoneware bowl by Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand in shades of light blue and brown trim hares fur gl...

Kähler. Three small ceramic bowls. Glaze in sandy tones with a black edge. Approximately 1970. Marked. In perfect condition. Dimensions: D 6.0 cm x H 3.0 cm.

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

Product Description:  At the age of 19 Stålhane joined Rörstrand as a decorator and was together with his teacher Gunnar Nylund responsible for Rörstrand's golden age. The work at s...

Berndt Friberg for Gustavsberg. Ceramic bowl in blue tones. Produced in the 1960s. Marked with the manufacturer's mark. In perfect condition. Dimensions: Diameter 16.8 cm x Height 3....

Gore Augustsson for Ruda, Scandinavian Modern Mid-Century Clear Glass Bowl circa 1960s. Measures: Height 5", diameter 8.75".

Beautiful plate in pewter, CG Hallberg -1933. Possibly designed by Sylvia Stave. Very decorative and rare object. Signed CG Hallberg, as seen on the pic...

Bjørn Wiinblad (1918-2006), own workshop. Large unique ceramic bowl. Female motif. Dated 1965. Signed. Label from Illums Bolighus. Perfect condition. Dimensions: W 39.0 cm. x H 7.5 cm.

Axel Salto (1889-1961) for Royal Copenhagen. Ceramic bowl with ribbed decoration. Celadon glaze. Model: 20688. 1940s. Marked. In perfect condition. First factory quality. Dimensions...

Jais Nielsen for Royal Copenhagen. Ceramic bowl in green glaze. Crackled. Motif of mythical creatures. Model 2760. Dated: 1946. Marked. First factory quality. Perfect condition. Dime...

Large ceramic bowl with beige sand colored glaze with brown speckles and decorative dripping noses. It's most likely by a Danish or Scandinavian ceramist. Unfortunately the cerami...

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 hand-painted ceramic dish with fish sculpture produced by Bo Fajans, Sweden, c. 1940s. Three invisible and negligible losses to glaze to underside. Dimensions: 5.5” H x 7.85” Dia...

Nils Thorsson for Aluminia. Faience bowl with blue glazed finish. Featuring a fish motif. Mid-20th century. Model number 2650. Marked. In perfect condition. First factory quality. D...

Höganäs, elongated two-part ceramic dish in an organic shape. Beautiful glaze in shades of green. Mid-20th century. Signed KL. In perfect condition. Dimensions: L 34.0 x W 18.0 ...

Carl- Harry Stalhane ceramic vase and bowl in angular free-form shapes. Decorated brilliantly with black designs on white and pale gray glazes. Made at Rorstrand, Sweden 1950 Vase...

Striking stoneware platter by Berndt Friberg, with a checkered decor in aquamarine, blue and purple. Heavy quality. Berndt Friberg was a Swedish ceramicist, renowned for his stone...

A very rare enamel on copper by Arne Tjomsland, its unusual because he is well-known for his wood carved bear sculptures but not his enamels, nice patina a small bent around the edge...

Large beautiful postmodern porcelain "Atlantis" bowl by Rolf Sinnemark for Rorstrand, Sweden. The black glazed bowl is decorated on the exterior and interior with depictions of obeli...

Striking, large “Veckla” bowl by Stig Lindberg. Rare model with the characteristic, smoothly folded design. Made in carrara stoneware.

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...

Beautiful and rare stoneware vase designed by Gertrud Lönegren. This studio piece was created at Rorstrand in Sweden between 1936-1941. Exquisite glaze. Excellent condition. Impressed 'Rörstrand...

Ingrid Atterberg (1920-2008) for Upsala Ekeby, Sweden. Low ceramic bowl with an abstract design. Glazed in blue and sand-colored tones. From the 1960s. Stamped. In perfect conditio...

Platter by Hans Hedberg, made in faience. Smooth, organic form with striking oxblood glaze on a grey background.

Beautiful Swedish modern bowl in glazed earthenware, by Eva Jancke-Björk for Bo Fajans, ca 1940-50's. Good vintage condition, wear and patina consistent with age and use.

Anna Lisa Thomson for Upsala-Ekeby. Large "Spectra" ceramic dish with swimming fish. Approximately 1960. Indistinctly marked. In excellent condition with two small insignificant chi...

Mari Simmulson (1911-2000) for Upsala Ekeby, Sweden. Ceramic dish. Hand-decorated in green and blue hues. Ca. 1960. Model 6000. Marked. In perfect condition. Dimensions: D 22.5 cm. ...

Jørgen Mogensen for Royal Copenhagen, stoneware dish with motif of beetles. Model 21871. In perfect condition. Marked. First factory quality. Dimensions: L 21.5 x D 15.5 x H 3.5...

Mari Simmulson for Upsala-Ekeby, Sweden. Decorative dish in glazed stoneware featuring a female figure holding a flower. 1960s. In perfect condition. Marked. Dimensions: D 25.0 cm x ...

Danish bowls by Michael Andersen, 1960s. Set of four ceramic cups inspired by a baptismal font from the 13th century located in a church on the Danish island of Bornholm. The cups ...

Vintage Mid-Century brass sculpture, attributed to Carl Auböck. These were designed for Illums Bolighus, this one is marked, DENMARK, some are marked, Illums Bolighus. In as-found o...

Berndt Friberg studio pottery vase. Modern Swedish design. Unique, handmade. Fine glaze in oxblood shades! Perfect. 1st. factory quality. Measures: 5.5 x 4 cm.

Mari Simmulson (1911-2000) for Upsala Ekeby, Sweden. Ceramic bowl with polychrome glaze. Featuring a motif of a woman's face and birds. Model 4068. Approximately 1960. Marked. In pe...

Scandinavian modern sculptural red metal bowl, made in Sweden in the 1980s. This bowl is made out of one piece of metal stunning craftsmanship. The sculptural bowl serves as an artis...

Ingrid Atterberg (1920-2008) for Upsala Ekeby, Sweden. "Bohus" ceramic dish. Ca. 1960. Marked. Perfect condition. Dimensions: L 21.0 cm x D 15.5 cm x H 3.0 cm.

Stunning Scandinavian / Swedish mid-century modern design art bowl bowl / stand by glass art pioneer Bertil Vallien(1938-). Handcrafted / Handblown art glass from ca. 1960/70s for ...

Hand woven basket or serving tray made in Finland during the 1950-60s. Hand made from cane. Very good vintage condition with few signs of age related wear and patina. Dimensions: W....

Saxbo, Denmark. Ceramic bowl with brown glaze. Approximately 1940s. Ying Yang mark. Perfect condition. First factory quality. Dimensions: D 24.0 cm x H 4.0 cm.

Scandinavian Modern glass enamel on copper bowl signed by Saara Hopea-Untracht, 1925-1984. Absolute fab, vibrant colors in green, orange and grey...

Carl Harry Stålhane (1920-1990) for Rörstrand. Large bowl / dish in glazed ceramics. Beautiful glaze in brown shades. Mid-20th century. Measures: 29 x 7.5 cm. In excellent conditio...

Solid teak bowl  

Simple, yet sophisticated, Swedish Grace pewter box by Ingvar Bossler for Gamleby Tenn, Västervik, Sweden. The company Gamleby Tenn started in the...

Gunnar Nylund (1904-1997) for Rörstrand. Large and rare bowl in glazed ceramics. Beautiful glaze in brown shades. Mid-20th century. Measures: 40 x 26 cm...

Ingrid Atterberg for Upsala-Ekeby. Large rectangular "Corso" ceramic bowl designed with geometric pattern. Model 2147. From the 1960s. Marked. In perfect condition. Dimensions: L 38....

OSA, Denmark. Two large retro unique ceramic bowls with glaze in turquoise tones. 1970s. In perfect condition. Largest measurement: D 23.5 x H 6.0 cm. OSA was a collaboration ...

Nils Thorsson for Royal Copenhagen. Unique ceramic bowl with abstract motif and glaze in brown shades. Mid-20th century. Signed. Perfect condition. First factory quality. Measurement...

Anna-Lisa Thomson for Upsala-Ekeby. Large dish in glazed stoneware. Striped design, mid-20th century. In very good condition. Measures: 30 x 25 cm. Stamped.

Gunnar Nylund for Nymølle. Large triangular dish in glazed ceramics. Beautiful glaze in light brown shades, 1960s. Measures: 37 x 19 x 6 cm. In excellent condition. Signed.

Astrid Tjalk for Kähler, Denmark. Unique bowl/dish in glazed ceramic with motif of fish monger, 1960s. Stamped. Measures: 31 x 22 cm. In very good condition.