Exquisite bone china coffee set, cast and glazed bright white all over, the small coffee-pot of flared cone shape with wide loop handle, and 3 espresso cups with saucers. Designed by Stig Lindberg in 1949. Made in Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory in Sweden in 1956.
Each piece is marked on the bottom with a Gustavsberg factory mark, printed in underglaze gold “GUSTAVSBERG [with anchor] / BEN * PORSLIN SA”.
Set of 8 pieces includes:
3 cups 2 3/8” tall by 2 7/8” wide with a handle;
3 saucers 4 1/2” in diameter;
Lidded coffee pot 8” tall including the lid, 5” wide including the handle and the spout.
Excellent store vintage condition. No cracks or chips.
Known as the SA service, this set was part of a range of tableware, see H. Lutteman (ed), ‘Gustavsberg 150 År', exhibition catalogue, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm 1975, p. 40, no. 195.
The coffee set was illustrated by Erik Zahle (ed.), in his 1963 survey, ‘Scandinavian Domestic Design', London 1963, fig. 303, p. 221, with the comment: ‘Lindberg has unusually versatile talents in industrial art. He has successfully designed fabric-prints, posters, wrapping paper, playing cards. enamel, glassware, and plastics, and tries his hand at other forms of industrial design. But he is primarily a ceramic artist and as such has worked at Gustavsberg since 1937. He has behind him a large output of service-ware and similar things, chiefly made in the materials Gustavsberg now specialises in - earthenware, bone-china (which in Sweden is made only here), and stoneware. He is a rationally minded artist, and at the same time gifted with an unusual flair for flowing decoration. His work covers a great range of types from the simple industrially made to the complex and romantic. This coffee-service in white bone china is typical of his elegant practical forms.'
Product code: Midcentury Swedish Coffee Service Set 8 pieces Gustavsberg Porcelain Coffee Pot Espresso Cups store Mint