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Wilhelm Kåge

(Sweden, 1889-1960)
Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.
Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.
Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.
Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.
Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.
Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.
Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.
Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.
Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.
Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.
Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.
Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.
Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.
Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.
Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.
Wilhelm Kåge, a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.
Estimate
12 000 - 15 000 SEK
1 060 - 1 320 EUR
1 110 - 1 380 USD
Hammer price
26 000 SEK
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Wilhelm Kåge
(Sweden, 1889-1960)

a celadon-glazed faience flower urn, Gustavsberg 1925, this model was shown at The Paris exhibition 1925.

High relief decor with floral branches. Both scratched and painted signature GUSTAVSBERG KÅGE 1925. Diameter 32 cm, höjd 26,5 cm.

Firingcrack, minor chips with retouches.

Exhibitions

This model was included in the Swedish Pavillion at the 1925 Paris World's Fair and at the exhibition "Swedish Contemporary Decorative Arts" shown at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1927. The model was acquired and added to the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Literature

Wollin, Nils G., Nutida svensk konstslöjd i bild, Natur och kultur, Stockholm, 1931, p. 133.

Nils Palmgren, "Wilhelm Kåge konstnär och hantverkare" Nordisk Rotogravyr, Stockholm 1953. Pp 120-121.

Gunnela Ivanov, "Swedish Grace", Orosdi-Back 2017, see the flower urn illustrated p 518.

Designer

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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