ceramics until retirement

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Bode Willumsen and Arne Bang



These are two of my favorite Arne Bang vases and a Willumsen pitcher.

Gerd Bogelund


We got this tall Gerd Bogelund oxblood vase in Copenhagen...it is one of my favorite pieces. Next to it is a blue Tobo vase and a green Carl Harry Stalhane vase with a bit of Orrefors in front on the right.

Axel Salto and more...


Thank goodness I got this piece of Axel Salto ages ago...the prices now are absurd (not that I didn't think they were absurd then!)
There's also a Hjorth piece (woman with fish...we got in Copenhagen)...and the big tile is from a old heater/oven that we bought in Budapest. The small green vase is presumably Weller with butterfly patterns on the edge. The tray is Royal Doulton (with a Dragonfly at the top) and it is holding a piece of rock we picked up at the Step Pyramid of Djozer in Egypt (considered to be the oldest large-scale stone construction).

Berndt Friberg et al.



The small blue bowl to the left is the first Friberg vase I ever got (a gift from HB)...the 3 vases to the right came not much later...the wooden saint came from our trip to Argentina and in the back on the left is a piece of Dedham pottery.

blue


here are some recent acquisitions...from left to right...

Arne Bang, Rolf Palm (again...sorry but it's beautiful)...my BIG Tobo Triller vase (it has a glaze that looks like denim...gorgeous!) and Gunnar Nylund for Nymolle.

Rolf Palm apples


I actually have 4 of these but I can't find the fourth...the great thing about them is that the glaze and shape really is reminiscent of apples...the green is a granny smith color and the red is a deep apple red (yeah, so I don't know the apple variety that is RED!). The photograph does not show it exactly.

Monday, June 19, 2006

Rolf Palm


I really like this ceramicist...wonderfully simple shapes with great glazes...I have seen his items listed with Hoganas but they are signed "Palm Mölle"...there's also a Stig Lindberg hourglass shaped vase sitting in a Gerd Bogelund Royal Copenhagen hourglass shaped vase to the left in the back.



Along the top of the built-ins in the guest bedroom is all white pottery...mostly McCoy but some Danish (Michael Andersen & Sons) and Red Wing...