a large stoneware garden urn, Rörstrand, Sweden 1936.
Signature and date 1936 scratched inside the rim. Height 80 cm, diameter ca 50 cm.
In Paris 1937 at the World's Fair, Gunnar Nylund's garden urns were placed on the terrace outside the Swedish Pavillion.
Cracks.
Svenska Slöjdföreningens tidskrift (The Swedish Association of crafts) Form, 1937, no 6, compare p 144.
Petter Eklund, "Gunnar Nylund Konstnär och Industrifomgivare, Historiska Media, 2017, compare p 59, The garden urns by Gunnar Nylund were exhibited not only in Paris but also at the World's Fair in New York in 1939.