Gefion
Plate
ca. 1939 (designed)
ca. 1939 (designed)
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Earthenware with green glaze and painted decoration of seaweed and corals in coloured slips. Shape 1542; pattern 1887.
Object details
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| Title | Gefion (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Earthenware with slip decoration |
| Brief description | Fish plate, part of a fish service 'Gefion', with green glaze and painted decoration of seaweed and corals in coloured slips, designed by Nils Thorsson, made by Royal Copenhagen, Denmark, ca. 1939. |
| Physical description | Earthenware with green glaze and painted decoration of seaweed and corals in coloured slips. Shape 1542; pattern 1887. |
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| Object history | Part of a fish service 'Gefion' [Circ.271 to 273-1939]. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 42 p. ISBN 1851770712. |
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| Accession number | CIRC.271-1939 |
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| Record created | September 26, 2008 |
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