Swedish Decorative Objects

A wood bowl produced in Sweden, 19th century.

Caramba from Kosta Boda is inspired by Mexico. “¡Ay, caramba!” is a bold statement that contributes to the power of the hand-painted black details on this mouth-blown vase: slitherin...

Vintage white jacketed glass vase designed by Alvar Aalto and realized by Iittala, Finland. Realized since 1960s, this series is one of the most celebrated among Iittal's production...

A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing glaze. Hand made by Hertha Bengtson for A&J Höganäs, Sweden, 1960s. Great original condition. Signed 'Hertha B' and 'Höganäs'. Hertha Bengts...

Swedish Mid-Century Glass Vase "Grass", designer Vicke Lindstrand and manufactured by Swedish firm Kosta. 1950s Sweden. An elegant glass vase featuring engraved patterning of fine g...

A blue-glazed earthenware vase designed by Eva Jancke-Björk and produced by Bo Fajans, Sweden, 1940s.

This series of candleholders was hand crafted in the 1970's at the Skultuna factory next to the studio were Pierre Forssell was working with he's assistant. The candleholder is made ...

Hyllinge, Sweden Pair of mouth-blown vases, 1970s. A pair of mouth-blown vases in vivid orange glass featuring sculptural bases and elongated necks. Typical of Hyllinge Glas’ 1970s p...

A black-painted iron candelabra designed and produced in Sweden, c. 1960s. Holds four 0.75” diameter candles Overall Dimensions (inches): 11.0"H x 3.75"W x 10.0"D All items ship f...

Estrid Ericso, pewter bowl with a lid adorned with a flower bud, manufactured by Svenskt Tenn, 1944. Estrid Ericson was involved in shaping the image of modern Swedish design during ...

19th Century Swedish Folkart Empire Chest /box from Skelleftea Vasterbotten ,Northern Sweden. Decorative Wood imitaition painted small chest /box with...

A beige stoneware vase designed by Berndt Friberg from Gustavsberg. The vase is 17.5 cm. It's in very good condition.

Beautiful and rare stoneware vase designed by Gertrud Lönegren. This studio piece was created at Rorstrand in Sweden between 1936-41. Excellent condition. Impressed 'Rörstrand / ...

Swedish antique birch hand made wooden bowl. Made to be used as a dining dish / plate. Fine quality of handwork. this is are true piece from the early 19 century. Beautiful patina o...

100-year old Swedish Art Nouveau vase handmade by artist Edgar Böckman in the 1920s. White, rose, magenta, spicy ochre and light blue colored lustre glaze covering the small shape wi...

Michael Andersen, Bornholm Decorative bowl with a mermaid and fish motif, 1960s/70s. Round stoneware bowl with relief-decorated center featuring a stylised fish and organic wave form...

A serving dish in faience designed by Stig Lindberg at Gustavsbergs Studio in Stockholm, it is 31.5 x 10.5 cm (12.6" x 4.2") in diameter. It´s in excellent condition. This vase is pa...

An orange / yellow glazed stoneware vase, produced by Höganäs Keramik, Sweden, 1940s. Overall Dimensions (inches): 5.25" Height x 6.5" Diameter All items ship from High Point, Nort...

An off-white glazed earthenware vase designed by Anna-Lisa Thomson and produced by Upsala Ekeby, Sweden, 1930s.

A beautiful faience bowl with amazing hand painted flower decor. Designed by Stig Lindberg in Gustavsberg Studio, Sweden, 1950s. Great condition. Signed with the Gustavsberg studio ...

XL cigarette box made by Atelier Borgila, 1950 Sweden Stockholm. Good condition. Sterling silver and wood. In 1920, Baron Erik Fleming (1894-1954) founded the Atelier Borgila, still prominent today in Swedish silversmithing. Fleming, Court Silversmith to the King of Sweden...

The renowned Swedish glass artist Bertil Vallien has created Azur Moon. It is an exclusive art object in blue glass, cast in a charcoal mold, with an imprint of a face under the moon...

A stoneware vase designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand, most likely produced in 1960s. From the rare production series at Rörstands named "Atelje-gods", informally referred...

Striking, large chamotte stoneware floor vase by Gunnar Nylund in with decorative handles and an embossed rope net pattern. Glazed light umbra and eggshell white. Gunnar Nylund was ...

A beautiful stoneware bowl with amazing glaze. Made by Roger Nilsson, in the artist's studio, Höganäs, Sweden, 1986. Excellent original condition. No chips, cracks or crazing. Sign...

A green and brown-glazed ceramic vase designed and produced in Sweden, c. 1920s.

Muted blackish dark brown glazed stoneware vase with precise and narrow vertically incised lined pattern band around the top of the belly. Soft rounded bottle shape with slender neck...

Set of four rhomb-shaped brass Candleholders designed by Sigurd Persson (1914-2003) Sweden. Solid brass cylindrical base with polished rhomb plate. Each example marked: SIG.P

Unique piece by Carl-Harry Stalhåne, who led Rorstrand’s golden age in the 1950s.⁡ Rörstrand’s art pieces come in three types: one-of-a-kind unique pieces, limited editions, and seri...

Voguish, chic and sophisticated Belle jewelry box, designed by Claesson Kolvisto Rune for Skultuna ( 1607 circa 2007 ). The box features an exaggerated vertical top on a bulbous ...

A Swedish Scandinavian Modern wine-red and grey stoneware bowl by Swedish Modernist designer Carl-Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand. This model is named "California" or "Californien" in S...

Egyptian Revival Bronze Alabaster Marble Bookends Pharaoh Nefertiti Sculptural An exceptional and highly decorative pair of Egyptian Revival bronze and alabaster bookends, embodying...

Details Deer Glass Sculpture by Vicke Lindstrand Kosta Boda Turquoise-toned cut and frosted glass Sweden, c.1960 Height 16.5 cm (6.5 in) Width 10 cm (3...

A blown glass vase designed by Edvin Öhrström and produced by Orrefors, Sweden, c. 1940s.

DESCRIPTION: Art Deco mortar made with green porphyry. It's a very decorative and it was made circa 1930, Sweden. CONDITION: Very good vintage condition. Wear consistent with age a...

Lisa Larson ceramic cat figurine Gustavsberg Sweden.

Berndt Friberg for Gustavsberg Bowl, 1960s/70s. Organic hand-thrown stoneware bowl with rich blue hand-glazed surface from the Selecta series. Origin: Sweden, Gustavsberg. Designer:...

Beautiful and rare vase made by Wilhelm Kåge at Gustavsberg Studio in Sweden, 1940s. Carrara glazed stoneware. Excellent condition. Stamped 'Gustavsberg / KÅGE / CARRARA / Swe...

A beautiful tea caddy in pewter, with amazing patina. Designed by Edvin Ollers and made by Schreuder & Olsson in Stockholm, Sweden, 1937. Great condition, with only a few light scr...

Rare large Swedish mid century ceramic / stoneware "AXK" bowl in blue brown glaze by Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand Sweden 1950s. In good original condition signed and numbered by the a...

A fluted brown-glazed stoneware vase, designed by Stig Lindberg, produced by Gustavsberg, Sweden, c. 1960s.

Hjördis Oldfors for Upsala-Ekeby “Trio” bowls, model 377, 1960s. A pair of ceramic bowls from the iconic “Trio” series, decorated with characteristic white and yellow lines on a dark...

Large unique ceramic vessel by Stig Lindberg for Gustavsberg Studio Sweden circa 1960's Cylindrical form with molten spotted glaze in contrasting oxblood and mossy green Signed to u...

Hjördis Oldfors for Upsala-Ekeby. “Trio” bowl, model 378, 1960s. Ceramic bowl from the iconic “Trio” series, decorated with graphic lines in white and yellow on a dark ground. Elegan...

ABOUT A tapered crystal vase with 10 point fleur design, acid etched script signature. It retains the original manufacturer's silver metallic label and is signed. CREATOR Sign...

Mid century rococo revival gilt clock by Westerstrand circa 1950. Good quality rococo influenced clock by well known Swedish maker westerstrand. Fitted with a twin train 8 day move...

A black and brown-glazed stoneware vase designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane and produced by Rörstrand, Sweden, 1950s.

The ceramic piece by Harald Östergren, originating from Upsala-Ekeby, Sweden in the 1930s, is a glazed earthenware vase or pitcher. All items ship from High Point, North Carolina.

Rare Ceramic Vase by Carl-Harry Stålhane, 1960's Additional Information: Material: Ceramic Style: Mid century, Scandinavian Produced by Rörstrand in...

Softly shaped Swedish Modern oval vide poche dish with strong geometric decor. Dusty tea green and anthracite black glaze separated by one diagonal unglazed line in the middle. Desig...

A stunning and unique stoneware rooster sculpture with amazing glaze. Made by Tyra Lundgren. Executed in her own studio in Sweden, 1955. Great condition, but with a couple of chips to the base (pictured). Signed by the artist in two places, and dated 1955-06-20. Provenance: bought from the estate of the artist in 1979. 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...

Vänskapsknuten (the Knot of Friendship) brass candle holder designed by Josef Frank Candlestick for Svenskt Tenn. Sweden, 1930’s.

A beautiful bronze vase with amazing patina. Made by GAB Guldsmedsaktiebolaget, Sweden, 1930s. Great condition, with a few light scratches. Stamped 'BRONS' and makers mark.

A pair of Bengt Berglund's Tobacco porcelain pitchers from the 1970s for Gustavsberg, Swedish Ceramics Company. It seems that the pitchers were made only in the two colors shown here...

A brown-glazed stoneware vase designed and produced by Rolf Palm, Mölle, Sweden, 1970s.

Height: 24cm Designer: Unknown, Swedish Date: 1960s Materials: Brass Description: Swirl Motif Candleholders are elegant and decorative pieces that bring a sense of grace and charm ...

A beautiful and unique stoneware vase of the highest quality with amazing glaze. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for ALP (Lidköpings Porslinsfabrik), Sweden, 1930s. Excellent condition. N...

Swedish Folk Art Mosaic Vase, 1970s. Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern vase with ceramic tiles. Unique and handmade in Sweden in the 1970s. The mosaic floral pattern is crafted around...

A gray speckled ceramic vase designed by Gunnar Nylund at Rörstrand. It is 17 cm (6.8") high and in excellent condition. The vase is marked as th...

Wilhelm Kåge Shell Formed Vase "Våga" by Gustavsberg. Creamy white Stoneware Vase with Carrara Glaze. 1950s. Good vintage condition with light signs of wear. Small production crack...