Anna-Lisa Thomson Art Deco Stoneware Bowl For Upsala-Ekeby, 1940s, Signed

– country: Sweden – designer: Anna-Lisa Thomson – manufacture: Upsala-Ekeby – material: stoneware – finish: velvety satin-matte glaze – year: 1930-1940s – signed: Ekeby, S8, A.L.T. – studio pottery – colour: ivory – size: large – dimensions: length: 13,7cm | width: 12,7cm | height: 6,7cm | depth: 5cm – condition: good vintage condition, micro craquelure inside, no chip, no crack Anna-Lisa Thomson (1905-1952) is one of the well-known representatives of the illustrious Swedish ceramic design of the 20th century. She was one of the leading designers for the Upsala-Ekeby factory in the 1930s-1940s. Anna-Lisa is represented at the Swedish National Museum of Art and Design. Upsala-Ekeby was a flagship of Swedish ceramics from the start in 1885. Over the years, the company and its designers presented numerous art pottery and tableware classics. Around 1920, Upsala-Ekeby began to recruit designers in an effort to raise its artistic standards. . The World Exhibition in Paris in 1925 turned out to be an international breakthrough for Swedish utility art, but for Upsala-Ekeby, the breakthrough came later in the 1930s. In the ensuing decades, Upsala-Ekeby would become one of the brightest stars of the Swedish interior design world.