Ruska
Sugar Bowl and Cover
1960 (designed), ca. 1968 (made)
1960 (designed), ca. 1968 (made)
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Stoneware sugar bowl and cover with mottled brown glaze.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Title | Ruska (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Stoneware with mottled brown glaze. |
| Brief description | 'Ruska' stoneware sugar bowl and cover with mottled brown glaze, part of a tableware range, designed by Ulla Procopé 1960, made by Arabia, Helsinki, ca. 1968. |
| Physical description | Stoneware sugar bowl and cover with mottled brown glaze. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | A pot inside an oven, a crown and 'ARABIA FINLAND 9-68' (Printed in white, location unspecified.
The pot inside an oven mark indicates 'oven-to tableware'.) |
| Object history | Part of a range Circ.453 to 457-1969, C.49-1988. 'Ruska' is among Arabia's most succesful lines. Its attractiveness lies as much in the unique, mottled stoneware glaze, giving each piece an individual 'hand made' appearance, as in the highly sophisticated and well-concieved shapes. The concept of 'oven to tableware' emerged in the late 1950's and Arabia like many manufacturers across Europe and America introduced specally designed cooking and serving dishes in oven-proof, high temperature resistant material which were also good looking enough to be part of a dinner table setting. |
| Bibliographic reference | Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 66 p., ill. ISBN 1851770712. |
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| Accession number | CIRC.456&A-1969 |
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| Record created | February 5, 2008 |
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