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A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing glaze. Made by Claes Thell, in the Artist's studio, Höganäs, Sweden, 1978. Excellent condition. Signed Thell '78. Claes Thell is a Swedish ...

Rare table lamp designed by Svend Aage Holm Sørensen. Produced by Holm Sørensen & Co. in Denmark.

A beautiful stoneware bowl / tea bowl with amazing celadon glaze. Made by renowned potter David Leach at Lowerdown, England, 1980s. The bowl stands on a narrow foot and is decorate...

A pair of beautiful Art Deco candlesticks with amazing glaze. Made by Anna-Lisa Thomson for S:t Eriks Lervarufabriker in Sweden, 1930s. Great condition - no chips, cracks or crazing...

A beautiful and unique stoneware vase with amazing glaze. Made by Rolf Palm, in the artist's studio, Mölle, Sweden, 1982. Great condition. Incised ’Palm / Mölle / H2’. Rolf Palm (...

Easy Chairs in Oak with Original Fabric by Hans Wegner, 1950's Additional Information: Material: Oak and original fabric Style: Mid century, Scandinavian Easy chairs model GE-240 / ...

A rare and beautiful fluted bronze vase with openwork insert and amazing patina. Cast by Otto Meyer Foundry. Sweden, 1920s. Great condition, only some light scratches. Stamped with...

A beautiful and rare enamel sculpture / painting. Made by Stig Lindberg in Gustavsberg Studio, Sweden, 1950s. Excellent condition. In 1949, Stig painted his first enamel painting o...

A brutalist ceramic vase with amazing drip glaze. A fantastic piece of Mid-Century Modern ceramic. Made by Helmut Friedrich Schäffenacker in his own studio in Ulm, Germany, 1960s. ...

A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing brown hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1963. Excellent condition. Inc...

A beautiful unglazed terracotta Art Deco vase. Designed by Ewald Dahlskog for Bo Fajans (Bobergs Fajansfabrik), Sweden, 1930s. Great condition, no chips or cracks. Please note that...

Rare Set of 4 Stools, circa 1890 Additional Information: Style: Scandinavian Produced in Sweden Dimensions (W x D x H): 41 x 41 x 49 cm

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...

Beautiful Swedish Grace vase with hand-carved decor. Made by Gertrud Lönegren at Rorstrand in Sweden between 1936-41. Great condition. Stamped 'Rörstrand' and 'LÖNEGREN. Gertrud L...

A beautiful stoneware urn with amazing relief pattern in the form of birds in trees. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for Rorstrand, Sweden, 1940s. Good condition. Factory second due to ...

A beautiful Art Deco earthenware bowl with amazing glaze. Made by Upsala Ekeby in Sweden, 1930s. Impressed with makers mark. Great condition - no chips, cracks or crazing. Upsala E...

This very rare pair of table lamps, designed by Finnish artist and designer Lars-Gunnar Nordström and produced by Aris Design in Finland during the 1960s, exemplifies the intersectio...

This very rare table lamp, model B-55, produced by Bergboms in Sweden during the 1970s, is a distinctive piece that reflects the subtle shift in Scandinavian modernism toward more ar...

A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing glaze. Made by Claes Thell, in the artist's studio, Höganäs, Sweden, 1970. Excellent condition. Signed Thell '70. Claes Thell is a Swedish ...

A beautiful miniature stoneware bowl with amazing green hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1960s. Great conditio...

Rare armchair model JH-501 / The Chair designed by Hans Wegner. Produced by Johannes Hansen in Denmark.

A beautiful miniature stoneware vase with amazing dark blue hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1960s. Great cond...

A beautiful egg-shaped stoneware vase with amazing yellow hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1957. Great conditi...

Rare armchair model JH-501 / the chair designed by Hans Wegner. Produced by Johannes Hansen in Denmark.

A beautiful Art Deco earthenware vase with amazing glaze. Made by Anna-Lisa Thomson for Upsala Ekeby in Sweden, 1930s. Great condition - no chips, cracks or crazing. Impressed with ...

A pair of vintage beautiful brass candle holders with amazing patina. For ordinary (22 mm.) or large candles (50 mm.). Made by Skultuna Messingsbruk, Sweden, 1940s. Great original condition. Can be polished if you prefer that. Stamped with makers mark. Skultuna Messingsbruk, often just called Skultuna, is one of Sweden’s oldest industrial companies — in fact, one of the oldest still active manufacturers in the world. It was founded in 1607 by King Karl IX. The location for the factory was chosen carefully: it is in Skultuna, near Västerås, where the brook Svartån provides water power, there was access to raw materials (copper from the mine at Falun), and ample wood for charcoal. From the start, the foundry made things like brass plates, candlesticks, chandeliers, combining craft and design. Some early pieces are still preserved — for example, the oldest known Skultuna chandelier...

A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing 'leopard' glaze. Made by Yngve Blixt, in his studio in Höganäs, Sweden, 1975. Excellent condition. Incised Yngve Blixt, Höganäs. Yngve Blix...

A beautiful Art Deco earthenware vase with amazing glaze. Made by Christer Heijl for Töreboda, Sweden, 1940s. Signed with makers mark. Great condition, no chips, cracks or crazing.

A beautiful leaf-shaped vase with amazing black, matte, 'Mangania' glaze. Designed in 1955 by Lillemor Mannerheim for Gefle Porcelain Factory in Sweden. Great condition. Stamped wi...

An iconic minimalistic mid-century / space age tube table lamp made of chromed steel. Made by Italian lamp manufacturer Oma, Padova, Italy late 1960s or early 1970s. Great original...

A beautiful stoneware bowl with an amazing glaze. Made by Arthur Andersson for Wallakra, Sweden, 1950s Great condition. Impressed with makers mark 'Wallåkra'. Arthur Andersson was...

This rare table lamp, model RD1986, designed by Carl Fagerlund and produced by Orrefors in Sweden during the 1960s, is a sophisticated expression of Scandinavian lighting design, not...

This exceptional sculptural bowl by Johnny Mattsson, handcrafted in Sweden from solid pine, is a striking example of mid-century Scandinavian artistry in wood. Bridging the space bet...

Very rare dining table model JH-570 designed by Hans Wegner. Produced by cabinetmaker Johannes Hansen in Denmark.

A beautiful miniature stoneware vase with amazing green and red glossy glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1960s. Great cond...

A beautiful miniature stoneware bowl with amazing glossy 'aniara' glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1960s. Great condition...

A beautiful and unique hand thrown stoneware bowl, with amazing glaze. Made by Liisa Hallamaa at Arabia, Finland, 1960s. Excellent condition. Incised signature "LH" and "ARABIA". Liisa Kaarina Hallamaa was a Finnish ceramist. She graduated from the ceramics department of the Central School of Art and Industry in 1949. She started working at Arabia as early as 1945 and worked as an artist in its art department from 1957 to 1971. Her work was characterised by large vases and vases. The materials used were chamotte and stoneware. He also worked as an assistant to Aune Siimes...

Amazing cast iron midcentury sculpture / fireplace screen. Designed by Olle Hermansson for Husqvarna, Sweden 1960s. Great original condition with signs of use and age. Stamped 'OH'...

This large round mirror, designed by Uno and Östen Kristiansson and produced by Luxus in Sweden during the 1950s, exemplifies the principles of Scandinavian modern design through its...

Stunning and rare stoneware vase designed by Gertrud Lönegren. This studio piece was created at Rorstrand in Sweden between 1936-41. Art Deco / Swedish Grace. Great condition. Firin...

A large and rare dish with amazing lustre glaze and hand painted gold details. Scandinavian Grace / Art Deco. Made by Josef Ekberg at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1930s. Great condition. Th...

Rare seating group consisting of 2 easy chairs with stools and coffee table model Falcon designed by Sigurd Resell. Produced by Vatne Møbler in Norway. Dimensions table (W x D x H):...

Set of Six Dining Chairs, Model 210, by Arne Hovmand-Olsen, 1957 Additional Information: Material: Oak, teak and brass Style: Mid Century, Scandinavian Set of Six Dining Chairs Prod...

A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden. Great condition. Incised signature "F...

A brutalist ceramic vase with amazing drip glaze. A fantastic piece of Mid-Century Modern ceramic. Made by Helmut Friedrich Schäffenacker in his own studio in Ulm, Germany, 1960s. ...

A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing 'leopard' glaze. Made by Yngve Blixt, in his studio in Höganäs, Sweden, 1974. Excellent condition. Incised Yngve Blixt, Höganäs. Yngve Blix...

A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing glaze. Made by Marianne Westman for Rorstrand, Sweden, 1960s. Excellent condition. Incised signature "MW" and "R" för Rörstrand. Marianne W...

Beautiful Swedish Grace stoneware vase with amazing glaze. Made by Gertrud Lönegren at Rorstrand in Sweden between 1936-41. Great condition. Impressed 'Lönegren', 'Rörstrand' and ...

This Art Deco vase, produced by Birka Metall in Sweden during the 1930s, exemplifies the refined decorative sensibilities of early 20th-century Scandinavi...

A pair of beautiful mid-century table lamps. Hand-made by Flygsfors Orrefors, Sweden, 1974-1979. Great original condition. Marked with stickers that read: 'Flygsfors' and 'Orrefors...

Pair of Sofas in Black Leather and Flat Steel by Poul Kjærholm, 1958 Additional Information: Material: Black leather and flat steel Style: Mid century, Scandinavia Rare pair of sofa...

A beautiful bronze vase with amazing patina. Made by GAB Guldsmedsaktiebolaget, Sweden, 1930s. Excellent condition. Stamped 'BRONS' and makers mark.

A set of beautiful bronze vases with amazing patina. Designed by Sune Bäckström in Malmoe, Sweden, 1920s. Great condition. The colors differ slightly. Stamped 'BRONS', model numbe...

Lapponia Finland "Starfighter" bronze pendant designed by Bjorn Weckstrom, Stamped "Lapponia Finland", 1970's, mounted on a black acrylic plinth, pendant 5.4 x 2cm. x 1.5cm. deep., ...

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, 1963. Excellent condition. ...

A rare and beautiful stoneware fish sculpture with amazing glaze, on a wooden base. Made by Carl-Harry Stålhane in his own studio in Lidköping, Sweden, 1970s. Excellent condition. S...

Table Lamp in Brass and Silk Fringes by Hans-Agne Jakobsson, 1950's Additional Information: Material: Brass, silk fringes Style: Mid century, Scandinavian Very rare table lamp model...

A beautiful miniature stoneware vase with amazing 'aniara' glossy glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1960s. Good condition....

A grand Scandinavian Modern urn with amazing off white crackle glaze. Designed by Eva Jancke-Björk for Bo Fajans, Sweden, 1940s. This urn (model 3428) was in production 1943-1951. ...

Bureau in Rosewood and Brass by Tage Lindgren, 1954 Additional Information: Material: Rosewood and brass Style: Mid century, Scandinavian Produced in Sweden Dimensions (W x D x H): ...