Studio: Saxbo

Designer: Gunnar Nylund (1904-1997)

Period: 1949

Country: Denmark

Size: H: 6 cm [2.4 inches], W: 12 cm [4.7 inches]

Details and Condition: Amazing green glaze bowl with turquoise color inside designed by Gunnar Nylund for Saxbo. Marked with the Saxbo yin-yang symbol encircled, the model number 3 and three lines (model size), and “Saxbo Denmark, two dots (mark of trower Egon Thomsen) and 9. The yin-yang symbol encircled was used in the period from 1949-1968. Saxbo (1930-1968) is now widely recognized as one of the finest independent ceramic workshops in Scandinavia with a wide and far ranging influence on several generations of ceramicists. Today, pieces are included in the collections of the Copenhagen Industrial Arts Museum, The Swedish National Museum, the New York Museum of Modern Art and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Arts.