a mahogany casket with stoneware miniatures, Gustavsberg Studio, no. 17.
Rectangular casket, internally lined with mirror and containing a total of 24 different miniature vases and bowls in various glazes, signed Friberg with the studio mark, the casket marked FRIBERG No: 17, dimensions 41 x 31 cm, height 7 cm, height of the miniatures 2-10.8 cm.
A sang-de-boeuf glazed vase with a small rim chip, the casket with minor wear.
Harry H. Hjalmarsson (1907-1986), director at KF 1956-71, thence by descent within the family.
According to the Gustavsberg Museum, only about 20 to 25 caskets were made. One of these was given to King Gustav VI Adolf as a gift in 1972.
Berndt Friberg was a Swedish ceramicist and turner. In 1934, he began working at the Gustavsberg porcelain factory for the artistic director Wilhelm Kåge. From 1937, Friberg also worked for Stig Lindberg. Friberg debuted in 1941 as an independent ceramicist when he was exhibited in Gustavsberg's shop on Birger Jarlsgatan in Stockholm together with Calle Blomqvist and Stig Lindberg.
Many exhibitions followed over the years, and his first solo exhibition, presented at NK in Stockholm in 1954, became very popular.
Friberg was not only a ceramic designer, but he also knew how to turn and glaze ceramics. The result was pieces of various sizes, from small miniatures, where the smallest were no higher than a couple of centimeters, to large floor vases. The forms were classical, inspired by the Song Dynasty's Chinese stoneware (960-1279).
During 1957-58, Friberg began working with different patterns in the glaze. The most sought-after items by Friberg are large vases with matte 'rabbit's fur' glazes.
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