Managing Director Sten Hultberg (1909-2002) & textile designer Astrid Sampe (1909-2002).
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Hultberg ran a textile printing company in Dala-Floda and Sampe was head of the textile department at Nordiska Kompaniet.

Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, "Nordiskt Konsthantverk", 7 September - 6 October 1946.

Stig M H:son Björkman (ed.), "Svenska hem i ord och bilder 1947", Spectator 1947, illustrated in Hultberg and Sampe's home at Karlaplan in Stockholm p. 231.
"Tapio Wirkkala - A Poet in Glass and Silver", Collection Kakkonen, The Finnish Glass Museum, Saarijärvi 2013, see the sculpture illustrated from the exhibition at Liljevalchs 1946, p. 36.

Michael Schilkin (1900-1962) was a Finnish sculptor and ceramicist born in Trubino, Russia. He moved to Finland in 1921 and studied at the Central School of Art. Eventually he was hired at the Arabia porcelain factory. He is mainly known for his stoneware and clay figurines depicting wild animals, but also created human figures and wall reliefs in public places with musty glazes in earth tones. The sculptures are powerful with a humorous tone.

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