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Drinking bowl

Drinking bowl

  • Place of origin:

    Luleå, Sweden (made)

  • Date:

    1806 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Löfvander, Olaf (the younger), born 1774 - died 1823 (maker)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Silver, engraved

  • Credit Line:

    Given by Col. F. R. Waldo-Sibthorp

  • Museum number:

    1934-1898

  • Gallery location:

    Silver, room 69, case 10

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Small cups of this kind were used for drinking brannvin, a strong spirit made from potatoes. Although made in Sweden, this cup was produced for the Samii (formerly 'Lapp') market.

The Museum acquired most of its collection of Scandinavian silver between 1900 and 1910. The collection consists largely of beakers and tankards, valued in Edwardian England as a Scandinavian “Arts and Crafts” tradition. George Jorck, a Danish silver dealer who worked in Hatton Garden in London, acted as agent for dealers in Copenhagen and was instrumental in acquiring many of the objects for the collection, including this cup. H. P. Mitchell of the Metalwork Department wrote in 1904, “Mr Jorck tells me large numbers are being sold to the American museums; it is pretty clear that the country districts of Sweden are being denuded rapidly and it might be well to make our gaps complete while there is this opportunity”.

Physical description

Oval bodied drinking bowl engraved with wrigglework from which neo-classical swags suspended, concave foot with floral motifs on hatched ground, one handle as cherub’s head, the other as acanthus leaf and pierced to hold 2 rings.

Place of Origin

Luleå, Sweden (made)

Date

1806 (made)

Artist/maker

Löfvander, Olaf (the younger), born 1774 - died 1823 (maker)

Materials and Techniques

Silver, engraved

Marks and inscriptions

On the base: maker’s mark of Olof Lofvander the Younger (1774-1823) working in Lulea, Sweden, from 1795; town mark of Lulea; year letter Z2 for 1806; control mark the 3 crown mark in force from 1754.

Dimensions

Height: 4.30 cm, Length: 14.30 cm handle to handle, Width: 7.20 cm body

Object history note

Acquisition RF: 96867/1898
Colonel FR Waldo-Sibthorp Gift

From Catalogue of Scandinavian and Baltic Silver, RW Lightbown, V&A, 1975, p191: An example of a KASA or ceremonial drinking vessel made for a Lapp client by this goldsmith, who like his father, is known to have worked for the Lapp market. ... The admiration for this sort of piece in Edwardian England can be seen from the Special Autumn Number of The Studio, 1910, entitled Peasant Art in Sweden, Lapland and Iceland , ed C Holme where different types from Dalarne (Dalecarlia) are reproduced.

Neg._No: GA 776

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Catalogue of Scandinavian and Baltic Silver, RW Lightbown, V&A, 1975

Categories

Drinking; Metalwork

Collection code

MET

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