Mid 20th Century Gunnar Nylund Stoneware Matte Glazed Bowl

Description

A stoneware rusty brown matte glaze bowl with gold accents to the bowl's edge and foot. A beautiful contrast of … more A stoneware rusty brown matte glaze bowl with gold accents to the bowl's edge and foot. A beautiful contrast of colors. Fully signed on the bottom in gold, Modell Nylund, ALP, Lidkoping, Sweden.

Gunnar Nylund (May 1904–1997) was a Swedish ceramic designer since the 1930s, best known as the artistic director of Rörstrand, and was already a well-established ceramic artist in Denmark first at the Bing & Grøndahl Porcelain factory in Copenhagen 1925–28. Later, in 1928, in collaboration with chemist Nathalie Krebs, he started a ceramics workshop, which became Saxbo in 1930, which kept making his stoneware until 1932. Nylund worked for Rörstrand from 1931–1955, the majority of the time as artistic director. He became well known for his new matte feldspar glazed stoneware in hare's fur and crystal glazes and for his stoneware animal sculptures.

Good overall condition with no visible chips, cracks, hairlines, crazing or restorations.

Approximately 7.25" diameter x 3.63" high. less