Axel Johann Salto - Important Nordic Design London Wednesday, September 26, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Freeforms, New York

  • Literature

    Axel Salto, Salto's Keramick, Copenhagen, 1930, n.p. for a similar example
    Axel Salto, Salto's Træsnit, Copenhagen, 1940, pp. 28-29 for a woodblock print of a whimsical forest scene of deer and fawn

  • Catalogue Essay

    Phillips de Pury & Company wish to thank Kim Hostler of Hostler Burrows for her assistance with the cataloguing of this important collection.

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Unique cylindrical pot with whimsical forest scene of deer and fawn

1941
Stoneware.
22.2 cm (8 3/4 in) high
Produced by Royal Copenhagen, Denmark. Stamp under the glaze with painted blue wave mark, incised in the body 'SALTO' and '19 / 6 1941'.

Estimate
£2,500 - 3,500 ‡♠

Sold for £6,875

Important Nordic Design

27 September 2012
London