Royal Copenhagen, Aluminia - Berte Jessen - Vase - Faience

Royal Copenhagen / Aluminia - design by Berte Jessen Elegant Danish faience vase produced by Royal Copenhagen, characterized by a rectangular, slightly bulging shape and a refined figurative decoration in tones of dark blue, azure, black, and pink, painted on a light background. The decoration, with a strong graphic and almost fantastical character, features large floral elements and stylized vegetal motifs, typical of the Danish modernist taste of the Sixties. The vase belongs to the Royal Copenhagen / Aluminia production and bears the design of Berte Jessen, a Danish artist associated with the celebrated postwar period of Scandinavian faience. Her work is particularly recognizable for the use of simple, modern forms coupled with expressive decorations, often inspired by the vegetal world and reinterpreted in an almost abstract key. Berte Jessen was born in Denmark in 1937 and studied at the Copenhagen School of Arts and Crafts from 1954 to 1958. In 1958 she joined a group of young artists selected by Nils Thorsson, artistic director of Aluminia and Royal Copenhagen, to give new impetus to faience production. Jessen was one of six young artists — from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden — involved by Thorsson in the project that would give birth to the famous Tenera production. The project aimed to radically renew faience through contemporary shapes, bolder colors, experimental glazes, and decorations entrusted to the sensibility of each artist. The collaboration with Royal Copenhagen thus takes place at one of the most important moments in 20th-century Danish ceramics: the 1960s and 1970s, when the manufacturer moved toward a freer, more modern, and international language. Jessen’s works are today sought after precisely because they represent this transformation of Danish ceramic tradition in the direction of Scandinavian Modernism. Dimensions: 18.5 x 14.5 x 6 cm. in perfect condition.

Estimate:£125.45

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