Not currently on display at the V&A

Vase

ca. 1925 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Porcelain vase with a crouching female nude flourishing a scarf reserved in a painted black background.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain with painted decoration
Brief description
Porcelain vase decorated with a crouching female nude flourishing a scarf reserved in a painted black background, designed and painted by Thure Öberg and made by Arabia, Helsinki, ca. 1925.
Physical description
Porcelain vase with a crouching female nude flourishing a scarf reserved in a painted black background.
Dimensions
  • Height: 26.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'MADE IN FINLAND ARABIA' (Painted in black)
  • 'TÖ' [in monogram] (Painted in black)
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 61 p., ill. ISBN 1851770712.
Collection
Accession number
C.6-1988

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Record createdSeptember 22, 2008
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