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

Create your first list.

Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.

  • Provenance

    Freeforms, New York

  • Literature

    Axel Salto, Salto's Træsnit, Copenhagen, 1940, woodblock print of appliqué design p. 31
    Axel Salto, Den Spirende Stil, Copenhagen, 1949, for a similar example on p. 83

  • Catalogue Essay

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

223

Vase with 'Living Stones' motif

1949
Stoneware, Solfatara glaze.
39 cm (15 3/8 in) high
Produced by Royal Copenhagen, Denmark. Crown and 'ROYAL COPENHAGEN DENMARK' stamp in green under the glaze with painted blue wave mark, incised in the body 'SALTO', 'X' and impressed with 'N'.

Estimate
£14,000 - 18,000 ‡♠

Sold for £15,000

Important Nordic Design

27 September 2012
London