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Farsta-Arktic

Vase
1953 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Stoneware vase with wide mouth and incurved rim, angular shoulder tapered sharply towards the base, and with incised and partly glazed decoration.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleFarsta-Arktic (series title)
Materials and techniques
Stoneware with incised and partly glazed decoration
Brief description
Vase, 'Farsta-Arktic' series, stoneware with incised and partly glazed decoration, designed by Wilhelm Kåge, made by Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1953.
Physical description
Stoneware vase with wide mouth and incurved rim, angular shoulder tapered sharply towards the base, and with incised and partly glazed decoration.
Dimensions
  • Height: 17.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'KÅGE' (Incised)
  • 'G' and a hand (Impressed)
  • 'STUDIO GUSTAVSBERG' and 'FARSTA' and 'FARSTA' (Impressed)
Credit line
Given by the maker
Bibliographic reference
Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 114 p. ill. ISBN 1851770712.
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.124-1954

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Record createdOctober 6, 2008
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