Barbro Nilsson, a carpet, "Snäckorna", flat weave, ca 312-313,5 x 200-204,5 cm, signed AB MMF BN.

A carpet, "Snäckorna", flat weave, ca 312-313,5 x 200-204,5 cm, signed AB MMF BN

(AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Barbro Nilsson). Designed in 1943.

Some partly hard wear, stains. The ends have repairs (even the signature BN) and have later flax edge and fringes.

Literature

Compare with Lundgren, Tyra: Märta Måås-Fjetterström och väv-verkstaden i Båstad, Stockholm 1968, plate 48; af Klercker, Susanne: Antikt - Bukowskis experter berättar, Västerås/Spanien 2006, colour plate page 182; Liljevalchs konsthalls katalog: Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Märta flyger igen, 90 år med Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Värnamo 2009, colour plate page 145.

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One "Snäckorna" exists in the collection of Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

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Finland: Kuvasto

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