Stig Lindberg, four stoneware bowls including 'Endiv', Gustavsbergs Studio, Sweden, 1969-82.
Yellow glazed bowl, diameter 10, height 4.5 cm. Bowl with mottled brown glaze, diameter 12, height 9 cm. Plate with mottled glaze in oxblood, black and brown, diameter 16, height 3.5 cm. 'Endiv', black glazed, length 33 cm.
Minor marks, stains and glaze spots. Areas with polished glaze on the foot of the yellow and the oxblood-glazed bowl.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Stig Lindberg created many of his most sought-after stoneware objects, decorative vases, bowls, and dishes with pressed or carved decoration, and popular ceramic series such as Pungo, Domino, Terma, Karneval, were introduced. A few years later, he became artistic director after Wilhelm Kåge. Stig Lindberg designed popular tableware, several of which are still manufactured today, such as Adam, Eva, Berså, Spisa Ribb (now called Ribb), Prunus, and Aster. During his career, Lindberg worked as an industrial designer, book illustrator, textile and glass designer.
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