Scandinavian Ceramic Artists’ Marks

Modern art pottery and tableware have been made by several Scandinavian factories. The most well-known companies are Bing & Grøndahl and Royal Copenhagen in Denmark and Gustavsberg and Rorstrand in Sweden. Here are marks of some artists and throwers who worked at Scandinavian potteries in the 20th century. A thrower is the person who shapes […]

Gustavsberg

The twentieth-century ceramics made by the Gustavsberg factory in Sweden were in the art deco style. Best-known is the 1930s Argenta Ware, green or blue glazed stoneware with silver-inlay decorations. The company was founded in 1827 near Stockholm, Sweden. At first it made transfer-printed creamware in the English style and, by the 1860s, majolica. Bone […]