Wilhelm Kåge, a porcelain coffee and tea service, 'Grön Slinga', Gustavsberg (43 pieces)
Decorated with green stripes and gilding.
9 mocha cups with saucers, diameter 8.5-11.5 cm (2 cups and three saucers with chips, one cup with a crack)
7 coffee cups with saucers, diameter 9.7-14.2 cm (2 cups with chips, one with a crack, 2 saucers with chips)
6 tea cups with saucers, diameter 11.2-15.7 cm (one cup with a crack)
15 plates diameter 17 cm (2 with chips)
1 serving platter length 26 cm (chips)
1 warming plate diameter 16.5 cm (chips)
1 cream jug height 8 cm
1 jug with lid height 17.5 cm (chips)
1 coffee pot with lid height 19 cm (chips)
1 teapot with lid height 15 cm (cracks, chips)
1 extra mocha saucer, 2 extra coffee saucers, 6 extra tea saucers (all with chips), and an extra lid are included.
Crazing, partly worn decor, and discolouration.
Anders Hallengren, Författare
Wilhelm Kåge was a Swedish artist, painter, and ceramicist. Between 1917 and 1949, he worked as artistic director at Gustavsberg porcelain factory.
Kåge studied at Valand konstskola in Gothenburg and later in Copenhagen, where he got to know artist Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (GAN) and became familiar with modern art. He studied graphic art in Munich and began his artistic career by designing posters for theaters and exhibitions. When Gustavsberg needed new products for the home Exhibition at Liljevalch in 1917, Kåge was hired. He developed 30 different tableware, colorful faience, stoneware, and series such as Carrara, Surrea, and Våga. In 1942, Kåge developed Gustavsberg's studio together with designer Stig Lindberg. The studio became an aesthetic laboratory for objets d'art.
At the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930, Kåge presented Gustavsberg's future sales success "Argenta", a series of objet d'art glazed mainly in green but also in red, blue, brown, and celadon green and painted with various silver decorations according to Kåge's sketches.
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