Property from the Salto Family Collection
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Axel Salto
‘Sommervase’
- Estimate
- £40,000 - 60,000
£161,000
Lot Details
Stoneware, layered blue mussel over iron glaze.
1957
32.5 cm (12 3/4 in.) high, 32 cm (12 5/8 in.) diameter
Produced by Royal Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Underside with Crown and ROYAL COPENHAGEN DENMARK stamp in green under the glaze with painted blue wave mark, 20250 and incised into the body SALTO, paper label handwritten NS.
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Catalogue Essay
Salto’s ‘Sommervase’ was first made in 1931 by Royal Copenhagen, Denmark. The present lot comes from later on in the production and is stamped and marked. The three blue wave marks found on the underside of the vase refer to the model number. Particularly fond of the piece, Salto gifted it to his daughter, the late artist, Naja Salto, on the occasion of her 14th birthday in 1959.
Lulu Salto Stephensen
Lulu Salto Stephensen
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