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Blue lily

Soup Plate
1917 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

High-fired earthenware soup plate with transfer-printed decoration of a flower motif in underglaze blue on a grey/blue ground. Model KG.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Blue lily (series title)
  • Liljeblå (series title)
Materials and techniques
High-fired earthenware with transfer-printed decoration
Brief description
Soup plate, part of a tableware range 'Liljeblå' (Blue lily), high-fired earthenware with transfer-printed decoration, designed by Wilhelm Kåge, manufactured by Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1917.
Physical description
High-fired earthenware soup plate with transfer-printed decoration of a flower motif in underglaze blue on a grey/blue ground. Model KG.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'GUSTAFSBERG', an anchor and '1918 KINA [indistinct mark] 853 A17' (Impressed)
  • 'GUSTAFSBERG', an anchor and 'LILJEBLÅ' (Printed in blue)
Object history
Part of a tableware range 'Liljeblå' (Blue lily), C.190 to B-1986.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 106 p. ISBN 1851770712.
Collection
Accession number
C.190-1986

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Record createdOctober 1, 2008
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