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Tyra Lundgren

(Sweden, 1897-1979)
Estimate
20 000 - 25 000 SEK
1 950 - 2 440 EUR
2 270 - 2 830 USD
Hammer price
85 000 SEK
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Covered by droit de suite

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Sweden: BUS
Finland: Kuvasto

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Eva Seeman
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Eva Seeman
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Tyra Lundgren
(Sweden, 1897-1979)

A faience table top, Arabia, Finland, 1927, on birch base by David Blomberg, Stockholm.

Rectangular faience tray with painted decoration of a banquet scene featuring figures in colours against a white, crackled background, signed TYRA LUNDGREN ARABIA 1927. The decoration includes the phrases NEMO SALTAT SOBRIUS (no one dances sober) and APRES NOUS LE DELUGE (after us, the flood), the base with inlays including a meander border. Tray measures 53 x 82.5 cm, in all 56 x 84.5 cm, height 73 cm.

Provenance

Oscar & Signe Rydbeck gave this as a wedding gift to their son Gösta & daughter-in-law Anna Greta in the late 1920s.
Thence by descent to the current owner.