Axel Salto - Important Design London Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | Phillips
  • Exhibited

    Axel Salto som Keramiker, En Udstilling af Sentøj, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1930
    Alex Salto master of stoneware, CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark, Middlefart, Denmark, 25 February-17 September 2017, cat. no. 43

  • Literature

    Poul Uttenreitter, 'Axel Salto som Keramiker, En Udstilling af Sentøj', EKKO, vol. 11, 10 December 1929, p. 13
    Axel Salto, Salto’s Keramik, Copenhagen, 1930, illustrated figs. 22, 25
    Susanne Bruhn and Christina Rauh Oxbøll, eds., Alex Salto master of stoneware, exh. cat., CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark, Middlefart, Denmark, 2017, illustrated pp. 70-71, figs. 3-4

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Rare 'Three Deers in a Cornfield' vase

designed 1929, executed 1930
Stoneware, brown-beige glaze over cobalt blue primer.
27.5 cm (10 7/8 in.) high, 18.3 cm (7 1/4 in.) diameter
Produced by Københavns Stentøjsbrænderi, Copenhagen, Denmark. Underside with Københavns Stentøjsbrænderi stamp and signed under glaze SALTO/1930, body incised XIX.

Estimate
£18,000 - 24,000 

Sold for £30,000

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Madalena Horta e Costa
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Important Design

London Auction 26 April 2018