Helge Christoffersen Figure for Royal Copenhagen

Collection of Jais Nielsen ceramics. Most were done for Royal Copenhagen. The ceramics are being sold separately.

Frits Henningsen Settee. Nice Classic Design. Mahogany Frame. Unmarked

A beautifully modeled and graceful ceramic sculpture of a woman, the body having an unexpected and striking combination of unglazed brown stoneware and a rich turquoise glaze.

Figurine of a young woman washing clothes - called "Martha" - by Danish sculptor Johannes Hedegaard (1915-1999) produced at Royal Copenhagen. It´s a rare version with beige clothes instead of the more commonly seen version with turquoise glaze. The naked parts of the body show the warm terracotta color and make the figurine quite sensual. The figurine was designed ca 1940s and it was most likely made around 1960s. Johannes Hedegaard is famous for his graceful busts of young, most often half naked women. His model was reportedly his own wife Birthe Hedegaard. He trained as a sculptor at Royal Copenhagen from 1930 to 1935 and later he went to the Sculpture School at the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen (Kunstakademiets Billedhuggerskole). His teachers here were Einar Utzon-Frank (1939) and Johannes Bjerg...