Not on display

Birka

Bowl
1973 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Stoneware soup bowl, model LT, with speckled glaze and painted black lines at the rim.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleBirka (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Stoneware with speckled glaze and painted lines
Brief description
'Birka' stoneware soup bowl, part of a tableware, with speckled glaze and painted black lines at the rim, designed by Stig Lindberg 1973, made by Gustavsberg, Sweden.
Physical description
Stoneware soup bowl, model LT, with speckled glaze and painted black lines at the rim.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 19.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'UGNSSAKERT STENGODS DESIGN: STIG LINDBERG SWEDEN, OVEN - TABLE - DISHWASHER - BIRKA GUSTAVSBERG' and an anchor all within a double circle (Painted in grey)
  • 'V D N S555 GUSTAVSBERG' and an anchor [impressed]
Credit line
Given by the maker
Object history
Part of a range C.138&A to G-1984
Bibliographic reference
Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 120 p., ill. ISBN 1851770712.
Collection
Accession number
C.138D-1984

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Record createdOctober 3, 2008
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