A Marieberg tea pot with cover, circa 1780.

Period of Henrik Sten (1769-82. Of cylinder shape, painted polycrome decoration. Height 15 cm.

Restored, chips, crazing.

Provenance

Thure Westerström (1872-1941) sold at Hoving & Winborg's auction 27-29 April 1916: Collection Thure Westerström Lund, Ceramics, lot 1232, illustrated colour plate 57. Subsequently in the collections of Sten Westerberg sr at Beatelud, thence by descent sold at Bukowskis Autumn Auction 1986, A446, lot 1180.

Private collection, thence by descent.

Exhibitions

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum: Marieberg 1945, catalogue number 255, plate XVIII.

Literature

Carl Hernmarck: Marieberg, Stockholm 1946, pp. 156-157, illustrated colour plate VIII.

Carl Hernmarck: Fajans och Porslin, Swedish ceramics before 1850, Stockholm 1959, pp. 140, illustrated colour plate XII.

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