Stig Lindberg x 3

I having been bookmarking some of my favourite pieces recently for sale at 1st Dibs into "folios". 1st Dibs always have an amazing selection of  "the worlds most beautiful things" for sale...sometimes expensive, but sometimes bargains are to be found as well.

If you are not familiar with the site, it is a place well worth looking at to find the best examples of all manner of Fine and Applied Arts and Design.

Of course my favourite items to view are the 20th Century Ceramics - and there often seem to be a few Stig Lindberg pieces come up - here are a few that were recently sold that I would love to have purchased.  Hoping one day I come across a piece or two at an Auction hiding in a box :)

Two Stig Lindberg Faiance Vessels
Sweden
1950's

Two hand-painted faience pieces designed by Stig Lindberg and produced at Gustavsberg, Sweden, c. 1950's

Faïence by Stig Lindberg
Sweden
late 1940s

This exquisite faïence tile was hand-painted by Stig Lindberg at his Gustavsberg studio in the late 1940s.

Signed "Stig L." at the lower right; the Gustavsberg Studio "hand" is at the upper left.

The bespoke painted wooden frame measures 15.5" square. The piece itself measures 5.75" square.

Stig Lindberg ceramic horse sculpture for Gustavsberg signed
Sweden
1960's

Great sculpture in ceramic of a horse by Stig Lindberg. This is a massive size work.

 If you are not familiar with Stig Lindberg or his work, here is a short entry from Wikipedia.

Stig Lindberg (1916 - 1982 was a Swedish ceramic designer, glass designer, textile designer, industrial designer, painter, and illustrator.
One of Sweden's most important postwar designers, Lindberg created whimsical studio ceramics and graceful tableware lines during a long career with the Gustavsberg pottery factory. Stig Lindberg studied painting at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. In 1937, he went to work at Gustavsberg under Wilhelm Kåge. In 1949, he was named Kåge's successor as art director. From this period until he left Gustavsberg in 1980, he designed individual ceramic items, as well as factory produced ranges and lines of dinnerware. He achieved fame for his eccentric forms and whimsical decoration. .