Sweden Decorative Bowls

This is a beautiful Swedish hand-carfted 19th century wooden bowl in Wabi Sabi style. It comes made in pine with lovely patina reflecting its...

A beautiful stoneware art deco bowl with crackle glaze. Foot and mouth detailed in hand painted gold. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for ALP (Lidköpings Porslinsfabrik), Sweden, 1930s. G...

Unusually large wooden bowl in untouched original condition. The bowl is made from birch root and because of that organically shaped. Original hinges in handwrought iron. The red pai...

Rare large sculpture bowl designed by Johnny Mattsson. Produced by Johnny Mattsson in Sweden.

Swedish Ostränna from 1744. Big trough used in cheese production. Made in pine wood 1744, with owner marks and date. Beautiful piece with old repairs an...

A beautiful and unique stoneware bowl with amazing glaze. Made by Rolf Palm, in the artist's studio, Mölle, Sweden, 1978. Excellent condition. Incised ’Palm / Mölle / G8’ and ma...

A beautiful ceramic art deco bowl. Amazing glaze with details in hand-painted gold. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand, Sweden, 1930s. Good condition. Some wear and scratches i...

Unique stoneware bowl with amazing celadon crackle glaze. Made by Carl-Harry Stålhane at Rörstrand Ateljé, Sweden, 1960s. Good condition. Factory second due to dark spots in the bot...

Beautiful stoneware platter in a leaf shape by Gunnar Nylund. Purplish brown glaze with contrasting bright blue areas. Gunnar Nylund was one of the most influential ceramicists and designers of the Swedish mid-century period. He was Rörstrand’s creative leader from 1931 until 1949 and as such propelled the artistic work at the factory and served as mentor to younger artists, among them Carl-Harry Stålhane and Hertha Bengtsson. Nylund was a dedicated functionalist, who brought ideas of democratizing stoneware and creating beautiful, qualitative and affordable everyday items for the people to Rörstand in the mid-1920s. The factory had at the time lost its former leading market position, but Nylund’s efforts gave it a great reboot. He designed ceramic kitchenware...

Three Delicate Bowls: The Art of Priscilla Mouritzen, a renowned ceramicist and artist with roots in South Africa and an international career. Born in 1945, she trained in ceramics i...

Beautiful 'Våga' bowl. Stoneware with white 'Carrara' glaze. Made by Wilhelm Kåge at Gustavsberg Studio in Sweden, 1940s. Swedish Grace. Great condition. Some metal marks. Impresse...

Swedish Trough dated 28th of September 1881 With owner marks and date on the side. Probably made as wedding gift. Made out of birch wood. Heigth: 8 cm...

Serving bowl

A set of three beautiful porcelain crown window bowls. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for Rorstrand, Sweden, 1933. Excellent condition. First sorting. Stamped 'Rörstrand' and 'Sweden'....

Stoneware bowl by Carl-Harry Stålhane with hare’s fur glaze. The bowl is glazed with muted but fiery shades of yellow, orange and brown. The result is a bowl...

A beautiful and unique hand thrown stoneware bowl, with rare and amazing white glaze. Made by Friedl Holzer-Kjellberg at Arabia, Finland. Excellent condition. Incised signature "F....

A pair of rare and beautiful stoneware bowls with amazing glaze. Made by Carl-Harry Stålhane at Rörstrand, Sweden, 1950s. Excellent condition. Signed 'CHS' and makers mark 'R'. Car...

Birch root bowl in an organic shape and marked underneath with a house mark from the first owner. Untouched original condition with original paint. The wood...

Decorative large bowl/base by Erik Mornils for Nittsjö, Sweden. Erik Mornils won prizes at the Stockholm industrial exhibition in 1930 for this series. Contact us for any questions!

Three stunning 'Surrea' stoneware bowls with 'Carrara' glaze. Made by Wilhelm Kåge at Gustavsberg Studio in Sweden, 1940s. Excellent condition. Stamped 'Gustavsberg'. This is a ...

Large and unique stoneware bowl designed by Stig Lindberg and produced in Gustavsberg studios in the 1960s. Graphic pattern with a beautiful turquoise matt glaze. Marked with sig...

Pewter bowl by Edvin Ollers (1888-1959) for Schreuder & Olsson, Sweden. Designed during the 1930s. This fruit bowl is made in 1954=D9.

Beautiful “Devil’s Cradle” bowl by Timo Sarpaneva, made in thick glass quality in an organic, rounded form. Two holes close to the edge. Frosted surface.

A beautiful lidded stoneware bowl. Made by Birger Åström (1931-2020) in his studio in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, 1960s. Excellent condition. Signed 'BÅM'. T...

A beautiful faience bowl with amazing geometric pattern. Designed by Stig Lindberg in Gustavsberg Studio, Sweden, 1950s. Good condition (there is a small mark in the glaze shown in ...

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...

Charming and at the same time rural decorative early 19th century French terracotta was basin. Looking as it has been around for a while, maybe displayed as an object in a French mo...

Milk Jug and Cream Jug by Bodil Manz Own Studio Bowl in Eggshell Ceramics. Porcelain, transparent glaze with hand-painted black trim white over matte cream glaze. The cream jug, mad...

A rare and evocative mid-19th century Swedish hand-carved wooden spade, beautifully aged and deeply rooted in rural Scandinavian heritage. Once a humble agricultural tool, this piece...

These very rare six Scandinavian Modern small bowls carries a sense of grace, elegance and beauty that can be found in the most delicate creations. Friedl Holzer-Kjellberg, 1905-19...

A beautiful lidded stoneware bowl with amazing glaze. Made by Birger Åström (1931-2020) in his studio in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, 1960s. Excellent conditio...

Unique bowl by BERTIL VALLIEN for Boda Åfors. Signed underneath: Boda Åfors Unique 1649 B. Vallien. Good vintage condition, wear and patina consistent with age and use. Scratches. ...

Crystal glass bowl by Mona Morales-Schildt, in heavy quality and a striking, poisonous green color. Dramatic design with a play of light in the thick glass.

A large handcrafted oval bowl made from pine in Sweden during the early 1970s. In very good condition. Excellent for serving bread or fruit out of for instance. Well represents the S...

Rare bowl in pewter by CG Hallberg -1930. Signed with makers mark. Measurements: Diameter with handles 27 cm, diameter without the handles 21,2 cm, height 9,6 cm. Wear consisten...

Handkerchief ''zanfirico'' bowl/vase attributed to Fulvio Bianconi for Venini, Murano. This fazzoletto bowl features zanfirico glass with lattimo white netted vertical cane and whit...

Swedish Birch Dugout Bowl, Early 19th Century Newer beautiful blue color with a rich patina, made from birch burl wood. Heigth: 11 cm/4.3 inch Depth: 25 cm/9.8 inch Width: 30 cm/11...

Signe Persson-Melin, a Copenhagen and Konstfack-educated artist, established her Malmö workshop in 1951. Renowned for her spice jars, pitchers, and bowls, she later collaborated with iconic brands like Boda Nova and Höganäs Keramik. As a two-time professor at Konstfack, she also left her mark on public spaces, crafting ceramic installations in the Stockholm subway. This unique 1960s/70s bowl...

A Classic elegant "Aro" ceramic bowl by Gunnar Nylund. Shades in blue and brown glaze. Made for Rorstrand, Sweden, 1960s. Inscribed with artist signature and Rorstand studio mark. E...

Three Murano Handkerchief Vases/Bowls crafted in Murano, Italy, known for its exceptional glass artistry, are now available. These hand-blown...

Beautiful Swedish modern bowl in glazed earthenware, by Eva Jancke-Björk for Bo Fajans, ca 1940-50's. Good vintage condition, wear and patina consistent with age and use.

Small Organic Shaped Swedish Handmade Arte Povera Birch Bowl. (Arte povera was a radical Italian art movement from the late 1960s to 1970s whose artists explored a range of unconvent...

Mid-Century Modern Stig Lindberg handmade planters or use as bowls for Gustavsberg. Lindberg designed "Silur" series in 1962 for Gustavsberg. Typical for Swedish design at this time ...

This is a beautiful Swedish hand-carfted, carved 19th century wooden bowl in Wabi Sabi style. It comes made in an oblong piece of pine, perhaps a thin trunk but more likely a thick ...

This large burl made in Sweden with precision handcraft gives a nice edition to any living room with intention to give an organic simple, but jet complex look. The signs of the wood ...

These burl bowls made in Sweden with precision handcraft gives a nice edition to any living room with intention to give an organic simple, but jet complex look. The signs of the wood...

A rare and elegant Art Deco solid bronze centerpiece designed and produced in the 1930s by Nordiska Juvelaktiebolaget of Sweden. This beautifully crafted piece features a wide, shall...

Scandinavian Modern bowl "Rubus", stoneware, Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand. Good vintage condition, wear and patina consistent with age and use. Please notice, the necklace on the pic...

Silver bowl with copper wire decoration by T. Hvorslev AB, 1996. Made at Studio Silverknappen in Linköping. Stamp-signed Theresia, stamped THHV 925 X10. Total weight approximately 84...

Wilhelm Kåge Stoneware Bowl "Wave" by Gustavsberg. White stoneware with Carrara Glaze. 1940s. Fantastic condition. An eye-catcher object, for every design hunter.

Lovely “Veckla” bowl by Stig Lindberg, white carrara stoneware. Folded form. Good vintage condition, wear and patina consistent with age and use. Blemishes.

A beautiful bowl designed by the Swedish ceramicist Claes Thell in his workshop in Höganäs, Sweden in the late 20th century. The bowl is 18 cm (7.2") in diameter and 5.5 cm (2.2") hi...

A round, black ceramic bowl designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane at Rörstrand, the bowl is 15,5 cm (6,2") in diameter. It is in excellent condition except from some minor scratches and ma...

A brown miniature vase designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane at Rörstrand, it is 3.5 cm (1.4") high and in very good condition, marked as 1st quality. Carl-Harry Stålhane is one of the...

Rare pair of Swedish mid century ceramic / stoneware "Rubus" bowls by Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand Sweden, 1950s. In good original condition and signed by the artist. Dimensions: H:...

Swedish mid century bowl in teak produced during the second half of the century. Dimensions : Diameter 25 cm / High 12 cm. Wear som...

Rustic and unique Scandinavian Modern studio bowl, hand built earthenware and decorated with Snakes by the well-known Swedish artist Hertha Hillfon. Signed and dated at the bottom, ...

Antique heavy bronze bowl from the 18-century Sweden. Unknown maker.

This striking hand-turned wooden bowl is attributed to Swedish artisan Oscar Johansson, known for his mastery in Scandinavian woodcraft. Crafted from solid pine, the bowl showcases t...

A striking set of three vintage Murano glass bowls designed by Flavio Poli for Seguso Vetri d’Arte, Italy, circa 1950s. These sculptural pieces exemplify the Sommerso technique, a ha...