Vase
ca. 1983 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Francesca Lindh was born to a Finnish-Italian family in Anversa degli Abruzzi, an Italian village known for its ceramics. She moved to Finland when she was 16 and began working at the Arabia ceramics factory.
This studio piece created at the factory shows her love of colour, texture and form. She combines three different coloured clays with impressions of grass.
This studio piece created at the factory shows her love of colour, texture and form. She combines three different coloured clays with impressions of grass.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Mixed clays with impressed grasses |
| Brief description | Vase of mixed clays with impressed grasses, made by Francesca Lindh at Arabia, Helsinki, ca. 1983. |
| Physical description | Vase of mixed clays with impressed grasses. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'F LINDH ARABIA' [impressed] |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | Francesca Lindh was born to a Finnish-Italian family in Anversa degli Abruzzi, an Italian village known for its ceramics. She moved to Finland when she was 16 and began working at the Arabia ceramics factory. This studio piece created at the factory shows her love of colour, texture and form. She combines three different coloured clays with impressions of grass. |
| Bibliographic reference | Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 68 p., ill. ISBN 1851770712. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.54-1988 |
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| Record created | September 29, 2008 |
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