Swedish Decorative Objects

Scandinavian Modern, set of 6, candle holders in brass, Hans-Agne Jakobsson, ca 1960's. Signed with makers mark. 3 different measurements: Height: 5,2 cm, diameter: 2,8 cm. Heigh...

A rare, early and unique Swedish mid century "Farsta" stoneware vase in a decorative turquoise blue and brown glaze by Wilhelm Kåge for Gustavsberg Sweden, 1940. In good original co...

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 ...

A heavy-alloy brass candelabra designed by Lars Åkesson and produced by Vallonmässing, Sweden, dated 1984. Holds .8” candles.

A black-glazed porcelain vase designed by Lillemor Mannerheim and produced by Gefle, Sweden, 1950s.

Wilhelm Kåge “Carrara” Stoneware Vase for Gustavsberg, Sweden, Gold Decor, 1940s An elegant Swedish stoneware vase from the “Carrara” series designed by W...

A beautiful earthenware gourd vase with amazing incised pattern. Made by Anna-Lisa Thomson for Upsala Ekeby in Sweden, 1940s. Excellent condition - no chips, cracks or crazing. Impr...

A glass vase designed by Göte Augustsson and produced by Ruda Glasbruk, Sweden, c. 1960s. Overall Dimensions (inches): 5.175"H x 5.75"W x 4.0"D All items ship from High Point, Nort...

A work by Carl-Harry Stalhåne, who led Rorstrand's golden age in the 1950s alongside Gunnar Nylund and worked as a designer and art director. After his first exhibition in 1948, he s...

Rare, beautifully sculptural stoneware vase by Wilhelm Kåge for Gustavsberg Studio. Swedish Modern, 1950s. This is a timeless decorative beauty. In good condition, smaller scratche...

Striking ceramic vase with a sculptural, fluted silhouette, signed GePe and dating to the 1930s. Finished in a richly nuanced bronze glaze, the surface shimmers with deep green, brow...

Art Deco matchbox holder in pewter with sculpted archer motif on the lid, dated 1940 and monogrammed "CH". Raised on four small feet, with a sliding wooden drawer. A striking decorat...

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 / ...

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

Impressive pair of early 20th Century classic Art Deco urns from maker Husqvarna in Sweden. This cast iron pair features a dark metallic graded finish with stepped, tiered square pla...

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.

An extremely rare, possibly unique, bronze jar with amazing patina. The lid adorned with a knob in the shape of a fish. Designed by Hans Bergström for Ystad Metall / Brons, Sweden, ...

A blown glass vase designed by Ture Berglund and produced by Skansens Glasbruk, Sweden, 1940s.

Gunnar Nylund "ARO" medium stoneware bowl by Rorstrand, Sweden, 1960s Measures: Height 3 1/4" (8cm) Width 6 1/4" (16cm) Depth 4 3/4" (12cm) Incised "R (Three Crowns) Sweden GN ARO".

A white-lacquered ceramic dish produced by Upsala Ekeby, Sweden, c. 1930s. Overall Dimensions (inches): 2.0" Height x 11.8" Diameter All items ship from High Point, North Carolina.

A black-painted iron candelabra designed and produced in Sweden, 1940s. Fits 0.80” diameter candles

A vase designed by Gunnar Nylund at Rörstrand, the vase is 18.5 cm high and it is in very good condition except from some minor marks. Gunnar Nylund was born in Paris 1904 with pare...

Ingrid Atterberg for Upsala-Ekeby, vase. Slender baluster-shaped vase in glazed ceramic with decorative striped decoration in white and coral tones. Model 518. Origin: Sweden. Desig...

A beige and orange-glazed earthenware vase, designed and produced by Töreboda Keramik, Sweden, 1930s.

A green-glazed earthenware vase designed and produced by a Swedish designer, Sweden, 1940s.

Candlesticks model 55 produced by Guldsmedsaktiebolaget, GAB. Made in Stockholm Sweden during the 1930s. Solid bronze with patination in shifting deep green tones. Signed with makers...

This handcrafted pewter vase, produced by AB Tenn in Sweden and dated 1974, is a fine example of traditional Scandinavian metalwork. The surface has been meticulously hand chased, cr...

A blue-glazed ceramic vase designed and produced by Nittsjö, Sweden, 1930s.

A beautiful, hand painted, porcelain art nouveau / jugend trinket box. Designed by Astrid Ewerlöf (1876-1927) for Rörstrand, Sweden, 1900-1910. Great condition. Stamped with makers...

Sculptural plastic watering pitcher designed by Carl-Arne Breger for Gustavsberg Sweden circa 1950 Asymmetric form with narrow spout and larger fill hole Original label intact to un...

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

Anna-Lisa Thomson for Upsala Ekeby Bowl (model 1034), 1960s. Low stoneware bowl with a characteristic textured surface and softly organic lines typical of 1960s design. Origin: Swed...

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...

Creation by Gunnar Nylund (1914–1997) during his tenure as artistic director of Rörstrand from 1932 through the 1950s. The vase has a glossy white glaze over a rough rustic body crea...

This elegant Mid-Century Modern vase was realized by Gunnar Nylund for Rorstrand in Sweden circa 1960. It features an hourglass form tapered body in glazed ceramic in a sophisticated...

For your consideration a Swedish Art Deco vase/jug in silver plated 1930´s . Attributed to GAB Guldsmedsaktiebolaget Dimensions: 9.25 H x 4 D x 2 diameter Please visit take a look ...

Glass vase designed by Vicke Lindstrand. Produced by Kosta in Sweden. Signed “Kosta LH 1889”.

Wilhelm Kage "Argenta" round vase Gustavsberg Sweden 1940s. Marked on the bottom with “Gustavsberg Argenta,” model number, and “Made in Sweden. Deep green glaze with a speckled finis...

Metal candleholder by Gunnar Ander for Ystad metall. Malmö, Sweden, circa 1950 - 1960.

An organic blown green glass vase designed by Börne Augustsson and produced by Åseda Glasbruk, Sweden, c. 1940s.

Berndt Friberg for Gustavsberg Large ceramic vase, mid-20th century. Wheel-thrown stoneware vase with an elegant cylindrical body and gently flared neck, covered in a delicate hare’s...

A lovely green/turquoise vase designed by Gunnar Nylund at Rörstrand, it´s 24.5 cm (7") high. It´s in excellent condition except from some minor marks and marked as 1st quality. G...

A brown & gray lidded bowl designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane at Rörstrand The bowl is 9 cm (3.6") in diameter and about 5 cm (2") high. It is in excellent condition and marked as 1...

A blue-colored glass vase designed by Arthur Percy and produced by Gullaskruf, Sweden, c. 1950s. Overall Dimensions (inches): 7.875"H x 2.5"W x 2.5"D All items ship from High Point...

Motion sculpture III by Sophie Rogers Dimensions: W 18 x H 35 cm. Materials: ceramic, glaze Other glaze colors available. A play with the materi...

Blue Sgraffito plate from 1917 by Josef Ekberg for Gustavsberg, Sweden. Beautiful flower motif in Swedish Jugend (or Art Nouveau) style. The artist si...

Fabulous deep cobalt blue with red at the base Bullicante (trapped air bubbles) bowl dish hand blown by Goran Warff for Kosta Boda c1970. Polished pontil and signed on the base. Very...

Elegant pewter jar from Svenskt Tenn, with a lid decorated elaborately with leaves and vines. Hoop knob in the form of a snake biting its tail.

A wood bowl produced in Sweden, c. 17th century.

Mid-Century Modern "chamotte" vase in corn blue color by Gunnar Nylund, Rörstrand. A small and wonderful vase named the "hedgehog". This example Is perfect. No chips or remarks, as t...

Early 20th century Swedish hand-crafted Hammered Copper Pot Jardiniere Planter with iron handles. This heavy duty jardiniere planter was originally a fish poacher or poissoniere. It ...

Gunnar Nylund ceramic monkey produced by Rörstrand. Stamped. Very good condition.

Formidable stoneware vase by Arthur Andersson for Wallåkra of Sweden Defined shape with an incised collar decoration, orange peel textured dark brown glaze Circa 1950's Signed Wallåk...

Swedish Art Deco vase designed by Björn Trägårdh in 1933 for Svenskt Tenn of Stockholm. Composed of a pear or gourd-form vessel in pewter surmounted by a brass rim. Good, vintage con...

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...

A ceramic green-glazed vase by Nittsjö was produced in Sweden, 1940s. It has a maker's inscription to the underside. Wear consistent with age and use. Overall Dimensions (inches): ...

Ingrid Herrlin b.1932, swedish sculptur. Herrlin mainly works works with ceramic and creates figurative art works in fruit, berries and other realistic shapes. This ceramic wall r...

A vase of glazed earthenware produced by Upsala-Ekeby, Sweden, 1940s. Wear consistent with age and use.  Overall Dimensions: 9.45" Height x 5.52" Diameter All items ship from...

A beautiful lidded bronze box with amazing patina. Art Deco / Swedish Grace. Made by GAB Guldsmedsaktiebolaget, Sweden, 1930s. Great condition, with only some light scratches. St...

Wonderful blue tint glass with a picture of a huntress and her dog on the front. Measures: 13" H x 4" W x 2" D Signed Strombergshyttan and marked BY006 VC93