Scandinavian Modern Decorative Objects

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 Anna-Lisa Thomson Vase "Paprika" Produced by Upsala Ekeby, Sweden, 1950's Wear and patina consistent with age and use. Som...

A stunning stoneware vase with amazing sung glaze. Made by Gerd Bogelund for Royal Copenhagen, Denmark, 1950s. Great condition. Painted monogram signature "gb" and three waves for R...

Elegant and architectural Modernist pewter bottle designed by Gunnar Havstad, one of Norway's renowned metal artists of the 20th century. Created in the 1950s, this sculptural vessel...

Nice set of six sold teak wood & brass Jens Quistgaard for Dansk mid-century modern graduated in size candle holders or candlesticks. In fine original condition, one owner set, show...

Small stoneware vase by Berndt Friberg, in a lovely onion form with a long neck. Warm brown hare’s fur glaze. Berndt Friberg was a Swedish ceramicist, renowned for his stoneware vas...

Beautiful Art Deco candle chandelier by Elis Bergh. Silver plated with large crystal prisms suspended at the top and at the base. Slim, decorative lines.

Otto Brauer for Holmegaard. Colossal vase or bottle in brown art glass with blue ball. 1960s. Measures: 54 x 20 cm (incl. Ball). In perfect condition.   

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 ...

Rattan tray designed and made by Artek in Finland during the 1960s. Hand woven from cane and rattan. Good vintage condition with signs of age related wear and patina. these beauti...

Striking sculptural vase is decorated with swirling band of green fused glass, circling the piece in free-form manner and guiding the eye along the curves of the vase. Semi-transpar...

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 / ...

Beautiful Art Noveau vase in black patinated bronze, designed by Hugo Elmqvist. Elegant clean form with relief decor of leaves, flowers and dragonflies around the mouth.

Group of ten wall mounted “Pendulum” candlesticks designed by Pierre Forssell. Manufactured in Sweden by Skultuna during the 1960s. Solid polished brass. All signed, engraved.

Impressive large abstract sculpture by Danish artist Ole Bjørn Krüger (1922-2007) made in the 1960s in his own workshop. Made from white glazed stoneware ...

Stoneware vase by Berndt Friberg in a long elegantly streamlined form. Pale celadon green glaze with rusty flecks. Berndt Friberg was a Swedish ceramicist, renowned for his stonewar...

1. Height 8.5 cm Width 2.5 cm Depth 2.5 cm 2. Height 8 cm Width 2.5 cm Depth 2.5 cm This set of 2 miniature vases was designed by John Andersson for the Swedish manufacture Hög...

A very unusual pair of earthenware Rörstrand vases. Made in between 1920-1936. Most likely designed by Alf Wallander. Some minor differences in the color of the glaze. Signed with ...

A large and beautiful stoneware vase with amazing hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden. Excellent condition. Incise...

Mari Simmulson (1911-2000) for Upsala Ekeby. Large ceramic bowl with polychrome decoration. Featuring a woman's face and a sunflower. Model 4157. Marked. In excellent condition with...

Vintage Dansk Rhinoceros white Porcelain ceramic Coin bank. Sleek Dansk white Porcelain Rhinoceros Bank, Scandinavian style, Modernist. Unique addition t...

Johanne Gerber for Aluminia, Royal Copenhagen. Dish in shades of blue. 1969-1973 In excellent condition. Marked. Measurements: L 22.0 x H 4.0 cm.  

UNIQUE Handcrafted Scandinavian Modern / Mid-Century Modern Style Vase / Urn in Glazed Ceramic with Detailed Decoration of Girls, Deer, and House Motif. Stunning Norwegian design ta...

Beautiful vase made by Wilhelm Kåge at Gustavsberg Studio in Sweden, 1940s. Carrara glazed stoneware. Excellent condition. Stamped 'Gustavsberg / CARRARA / 1132'. Wilhelm K...

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 ...

Important set of 25 kronan candel sticks design by Pierre Forssell and produced by Skutuna in the 80's. Each candel sticks are made in solid brass. The whole collection can be set up...

Beautiful Art Noveau vase in patinated bronze, designed by Hugo Elmqvist. Stately form with a heavy base, decorated with a dynamic relief of seaweed and crabs.

A beautiful stoneware vase with handle and amazing glaze. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for Rorstrand, Sweden, 1950s. Great condition. Incised signature "G.N." and Rörstrands three cr...

Lisa Larson for Gustavsberg. Turtle in glazed ceramics. 1970's. Measures: 8 x 4 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped.

"People" decanter designed by Erik Höglund. Produced by Boda during the 1950s. Made from hand blown clear glass. Good vintage condition with age related wear and patina. Designer...

Aluminia faience vase. Modernist design. Glaze in shades of brown. Mid-20th century. Marked. In perfect condition. Dimensions: Height 12.5 cm x Diameter 8.0 cm.

Hertha Bengtsson (1917-1993) for Rörstrand Atelje. Large cylindrical ceramic vase. Modernist design. Circa 1970. Marked. Perfect condition. Dimensions: Height 24.0 cm. x diameter 10...

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....

Scandinavian Modern vase "Pistill" by Mari Simmulson, Upsala-Ekeby, 1960's. Signed with makers mark. Good vintage condition, wear and patina consistent with age and use.

Scandinavian Modern vase "Kulvas" (bulletvase) in brass produced for Skultuna, Sweden by Pierre Forsell. Stamped 1807. Pierre Forsell (1925-2004) was a trained silversmith. During t...

Vintage staved teak large salad bowl design by Jens Quistgaard for Dansk. Stamped "Dansk International Design LTD Thailand JHQ". Designer: Jens ...

Set of 2 beautiful vases by Anna-Lisa Thomson at Gefle / Upsala Ekeby, Sweden, 1930s. Excellent condition. Signed 'Thomson' on the side of the vase and impressed 'TB' underneath. ...

A beautiful and unique stoneware vase with amazing and rare glaze. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for Rorstrand, Sweden, 1940s. Incised signature "NYLUND" and makers mark "R" for Rörs...

Pair of wall candle sconces designed by Pierre Forsell for the Swedish house Skultana in the 1950s. Made of solid brass and retaining its original protective coating, the sconces hav...

Vase in disco metal model 2411 by Ib Just Andersen. Mad in Denmark Denmark, 1940s. Great original condition.

Striking, unique glass vase by Vicke Lindstrand, made with overlay technique. Layers of green and clear glass with an abstract etched pattern that brings an enchanted forest to mind.

Large unique stoneware table bowl handmade by Danish artist Ole Bjørn Krüger (1922-2007). Made in the 1960s in his own workshop. Glazed stoneware with bea...

Scandinavian Modern stonewear vase by Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand 1950's. Signed with makers mark. Good vintage condition, wear and patina consistent wi...

Swedish Modern Jar in Pewter, CG Hallberg -1931. Signed with makers mark. Good vintage condition, wear and patina consistent with age and use. The lid is slightly uneven. Numbers i...

Mortars made of Öland limestone in the 1800's was used by many in Sweden. They was known for its durability and ability to withstand wear over time. Great patina and beautiful depth...

A young woman with an attitude! That pose says it all! Cast in bronze and patinated in dark green/brown. Signed "Berggren". Sigge Berggren (1911-1...

Mari Simmulson for Upsala-Ekeby, large ceramic bowl / dish decorated with sunflowers and butterflies. 1960s. Model number 4158. In excellent condition. Marked. Dimensions: L 27.0 cm....

Exceptional candelabra design by Paavo Tynell and produced by Taito, this example has an incredible patina and has been produced in the early 50's. Everything is in really good condi...

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...

Vintage divided teak bowl by Dansk. Designer: Jens Quistgaard Manufacturer: Dansk Dimensions: 2" tall x 8.75: diameter.

A beautiful sculptural and fluid piece. The "Soap Bubble" vase in olive glass. Extensive signature, K. Franck, Nuutajarvi Notsjo Measures: 7 inch high.

Swedish glass artist, four Dala horses in clear mouth-blown art glass. Approximately from 1970. Perfect condition. The largest measures: H 16.0 cm x L 14.5 cm. The smallest measures:...

Part of a design collaboration between HAY and artist Laila Gohar that celebrates the joy of meeting family and friends over a good meal, the Sobremesa Stripe Vase is a decorative va...

Striking vase model "Manhattan" designed by Berit Ternell, manufactured at Upsala-Ekeby factory in Sweden, circa 1971. the vase is made from stoneware with a purple glaze on top of a...

Unusual asymmetrical bowl in solid teak. Beautiful hand-finished organic shape with soft curves. Suitable as decorative centerpiece, for fruits or salad. It was made in-house at ESA ...

Hand painted figurative ceramic vase on a cream white glazed body, dated 1946. From Hank Keramikk Verksted, Oslo, Norway signed “NK”. Measures: Height...

A beautiful abd rare vase by Anna-Lisa Thomson for Upsala Ekeby, Sweden, 1940s. Excellent condition. Impressed 'EKEBY' and '18'. Anna-Lisa Thomson (1905-1952) was born in the sout...

Beautiful vase in crystal by Göran Wärff for Kosta, Sweden, ca 1978-1980. Featured in Kostas catalogue from 1978-1980, see last picture. Signed with makers mark. Good vintage cond...

This is a beautiful mouth blown filigrana glass bowl whose design is attributed to Vicke Lindstrom for Kosta Boda. The bowl is of exceptional quality a...

A beautiful and unique stoneware vase with amazing glaze. Made by Stig Lindberg in Gustavsberg Studio, Sweden. 1963. Excellent condition. Incised "Stig L" and Gustavsberg studio han...