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Ceramics, Room 140, Factory Ceramics

Picknick

Cooking Pot and Cover
1956 (designed), 1956 (designed), until 1969 (made)
Artist/Maker
Rörstrand (manufacturer)
Westman, Marianne (designer)
Place of origin
Stockholm (made)

Earthenware cooking pot and lid with printed decoration of vegetables and herbs painted in various colours and glazed.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Earthenware
Object type
Cooking pot and cover
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Casserole Body
  • Casserole Cover
TitlePicknick (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with transfer-printed decoration, underglaze painting and glazed
Earthenware
Glaze
Transfer-Printed
Glazed
Brief description
'Picknick' earthenware cooking pot and lid, part of a range, with transfer-printed and underglaze painting decoration of vegetables and herbs painted in various colours, and with a green glazed lid, designed by Marianne Westman 1956, made by Rörstrand, Stockholm, in production until 1969.
Physical description
Earthenware cooking pot and lid with printed decoration of vegetables and herbs painted in various colours and glazed.
Marks and inscriptions
'PICKNICK, a peapod, three crowns and 'RÖRSTRAND SWEDEN HANDPAINTED 106 ... ENWARE [obscured] (Printed in black)
Credit line
Given by the maker
Object history
Part of range Circ.23, 24-1961
Production
In production until 1969. The design was popular, and prompted the production of similar ranges at other Scandinavian factories.
Subjects depicted
Vegetables
Herbs
Bibliographic references
  • Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 117 p., ill. ISBN 1851770712.
  • liberty's
  • Lindgren, Bo Gunnar (Ed.),Catalogue of an exhibition of three centuries of Swedish pottery: Rorstrand 1726-1959, and Marieberg 1758-1788., London, V&A Publications & Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1959
Other number
C.20917 - Previous number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
CIRC.23&A-1961

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Record createdOctober 6, 2008
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O168743/picknick-cooking-pot-and-westman-marianne/
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