Not on display

Dish

ca. 1900 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Rörstrand (manufacturer)
Wallander, Alf (designer)
Place of origin
Sweden (manufactured)

Porcelain dish, oval with moulded rim of flowers and leaves painted in underglaze green and pinks.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Porcelain with moulded decoration painted in underglaze colours
Porcelain
Glaze
Moulded
Underglaze
Brief description
Dish, porcelain with moulded decoration painted in underglaze colours, designed by Alf Wallander, manufactured by Rörstrand, Sweden, ca. 1900.
Physical description
Porcelain dish, oval with moulded rim of flowers and leaves painted in underglaze green and pinks.
Dimensions
  • Length: 31cm
  • Width: 21cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'RÖRSTRAND' and three crowns (Printed in green)
  • 'RÖRSTRAND I I 3 ZA' (Impressed)
Credit line
Given by Fenix Antik
Subjects depicted
Flowers
Leaves
Bibliographic references
  • Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 106 p. ill. ISBN 1851770712.
  • McFadden, David Rever, ed. Scandinavian Modern Design 1880-1980. New York: Abrams.1982, 272 p. ISBN 0810916436
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.18-1987

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Record createdOctober 29, 2008
Record URL
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