a large stoneware vase, Gustavsberg studio, Sweden early 1950s.
Scratched decoration with animals and fish in dark blue/black against a grey and green glazed ground. Signed A.B.L with the studio mark and imprinted stamp GUSTAVSBERG, height 29,5 cm.
Bought in the early 1950s, thence by descent.
Similar works were included in Anders Bruno Liljefors' premier exhibition at Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm 1952. The largest pieces were turned by his young colleague Dan Malmberg.
Arthur Hald (ed), FORM, Svenska Slöjdföreningens tidskrift, 1952, nr 2, see p 46.