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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Salad Bowl

1950 (designed), 1951 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Earthenware salad bowl modelled in leaf-shaped, with white tin glaze and painted and incised decoration of stripes and undulating lines in green/brown, yellow and pink.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with painted and incised decoration
Brief description
Salad bowl, tin-glazed earthenware with painted and incised decoration, designed by Stig Lindberg, made by Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1951.
Physical description
Earthenware salad bowl modelled in leaf-shaped, with white tin glaze and painted and incised decoration of stripes and undulating lines in green/brown, yellow and pink.
Dimensions
  • Length: 25cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'F3' (Impressed)
  • 'G', a hand, 'SWEDEN 3' and an umbrella (or JD in monogram?) (Painted in blue)
Credit line
Given by the maker
Bibliographic reference
Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 113 p. ISBN 1851770712.
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.52-1952

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Record createdOctober 6, 2008
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