A 59 pieces Wilhelm Kåge service, porcelain, Guldstjärna, Gustavsberg, Sweden.
Dekor i blått och med förgylld dekor. Märkta Gustavsberg Guldstjärna Kåge.
11 kaffekoppar med fat, höjd 6,5 och diameter 13,5 cm.
13 assietter, diameter 17,5 cm.
12 förrättstallrikar, diameter 21 cm.
Karaff, höjd 17,5 cm.
Kaffekanna, höjd 19 cm.
Såsbåt, längd 20 cm.
Gräddkanna, höjd 7,5 cm.
Sockerskål, höjd 10 cm.
Liten serveringsskål med hänklar, längd 19,5 cm.
12 mattallrikar, diameter 24 cm.
Uppläggningsfat, diameter 29,5 cm.
Uppläggningsfat, diameter 28,5 cm.
Uppläggningsfat, diameter 24,5 cm.
Serveringsskål, längd, 24 cm.
Serveringsskål, längd, 19 cm.
Stains. Wear and tear. Glaze flaws.
one side plate with a crack running through the rim.
One appetizer plate with a scratch and color loss on the border.
Minor chips on the underside of the coffee pot lid.
Minor chip on the underside of the sugar bowl lid.
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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