VINTAGE SCANDINAVIAN FAJANCE TENERA PLATTER BY DANISH STUDIO ROYAL COPENHAGEN
A LOVELY EXAMPLE FROM THE STUDIOS FAJANCE SERIES
THIS BEING A MARIANNE JOHNSON TENERA EXAMPLE AND CARRIES THE ARTISTS INITIALS TO THE REAR
FINISHED IN A BEAUTIFUL FLORAL ABSTRACT DESIGN IN BLUES, WHITE, BLUSH PINK AND A SUBTLE COFFEE TONE
FULL STUDIO MARKS TO THE REAR AS NOTED
MEASURING 174MM SQUARE BY 32MM TALL
SHAPE NUMBER 2383 STAMPED ON THE UNDERSIDE
OFFERED IN EXCELLENT VINTAGE ORDER
CIRCA LATE 1960’S
BORN IN SWEDEN, NILS JOHAN THORVALD THORSSON (1898-1975) BEGAN TO APPRENTICE AT THE ALUMINA STUDIO IN COPENHAGEN, DENMARK AT THE AGE OF THIRTEEN
IN 1917 THORSSON GRADUATED FROM THE ROYAL DANISH ACADEMY
EXCELLING AS A DESIGNER HE WENT ON TO BECOME ALUMINA FACTORY’S ARTISTIC DIRECTOR IN 1928, A POST WHICH HE HELD FOR FORTY ONE YEARS
THORSSON WAS THE STUDIOS MOST PROLIFIC DESIGNER WITH A KEEN EYE FOR TALENT
WHEN ALUMINA PURCHASED ROYAL COPENHAGEN IN 1949, THORSSON TOOK OVER THERE AS WELL AS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, LEADING A TEAM OF ULTRA-TALENTED DESIGNERS
THE TENERA DESIGN TEAM CONSISTED OF BERTE JESSEN, INGE LISE-KOEFOED, MARIANNE JOHNSON, KARI CHRISTENSEN, BETHE BREYEN, GRETE HELLAND-HANSEN & JOHANNE GERBER
MOD 22A
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