Anna Petrus

The Worlds Fair in Paris 1925, this model was included.
New York, 1927, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The model was included in the show called 'Swedish Contemporary Decorative Arts'

Marie Rehnberg, 'Anna Petrus Skulptör, industrikonstnär och pionjär' (2009), 2022, Arena Förlag, pp 82-83.
Hedvig Hedqvist, Rikard Jacobson, Jan von Gerber, 'Modernt Svenskt Tenn', 2004, p 21.
Gregor Paulsson (ed), Svenska Slöjdföreningens årsbok, 1926 (Yearbook for The Swedish Association of Crafts 1926), p 59, the model depicted together with an inkstand also designed by Anna Petrus.

Anna Petrus was a sculptor, industrial designer, and artist active in the early 20th century. She was born as Anna Petersson, the daughter of a professor of medicine and a countess, and adopted her surname while studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. She inherited a modest fortune at the age of 11 when her mother passed away, which allowed her to pursue her education in London and travel to Italy and France.

Anna Petrus's major international breakthrough came with the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris in 1925, where she showcased items in pewter and cast iron, in the Swedish Grace style. Pewter was considered an outdated material at the time, but its popularity grew as designers like Petrus recognised its advantages. In 1924, she began a collaboration with the then newly established Firma Svenskt Tenn. The lion became a recurring motif in Anna Petrus's work, both as sculptures and as stylised decorations.