Not currently on display at the V&A

Bowl

1925-1935 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Royal Copenhagen (manufacturer)
Nielsen, Jais (designer)
Place of origin
Copenhagen (manufactured)

Bowl with straight sloping sides, buff stoneware covered with a dark red reduction-fired glaze, the inside centre decorated with a moulded relief portrait head of a god playing pan pipes.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Stoneware
Object type
Bowl
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, glazed with relief moulded decoration
Stoneware
Glaze
Glazed
Relief
Brief description
Bowl, glazed stoneware with relief moulded decoration, designed by Jais Nielsen, manufactured by Royal Copenhagen, Denmark, ca. 1925-1935.
Physical description
Bowl with straight sloping sides, buff stoneware covered with a dark red reduction-fired glaze, the inside centre decorated with a moulded relief portrait head of a god playing pan pipes.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8cm
  • Diameter: 24.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • ‘ROYAL COPENHAGEN / DENMARK’ and a crown [indistinct] (Printed in green)
  • Three wavy lines and 'JAIS' (Painted in underglaze blue)
Subjects depicted
Head
Panpipes
Bibliographic reference
Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 39 p. ISBN 1851770712.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.87-1987

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Record createdDecember 6, 2007
Record URL
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