Gustavsberg (Sweden)

Gustavsberg/Lisa Larson 'Unik' elephant wall plaque

1950s Gustavsberg/Stig Lindberg Eldfast 'Duett' Dishes

Britt-Louise Sundell

Hiya

Definitely Stig Lindberg.

Don't be fooled by the "hand" mark. This not Stig Lindberg's signature - it only denotes that the piece was handmade. There are many pieces with the hand mark that have nothing to do with Stig Lindberg as the other designer/throwers at Gustavsberg used it too.

Similarly, there are many ranges that Stig designed for Gustavsberg which were cast and don't have a "hand" mark. For example, like the Grazia range, the Reptil, Domino, Veckla and Pungo ranges don't have any Stig related markings on them (although many have stickers with "designed by Stig Lindberg" on the base).



Kurt

10cm high Argenta vase

The G + "hand" mark is for Gustavsberg Studio, established by Wilhelm Kåge, who employed Stig L initially as a decorator. Pieces designed by Kåge at the studio bear the G + "hand" in black, those by Stig are in blue. The well known faience pieces with white tin glaze and colourful on glaze decoration were designed by Stig and hand-painted by a small team of decorators each of whom had their own mark or cipher, such as a boomerang, a star, a mushroom etc.
Stig's actual studio ceramics were mostly thrown by Sven Wejsfelt who died quite recently. Stig didn't throw his pieces. These studio ceramics are signed Stig L scratched into the bottom of each piece along with the G + hand mark.
Other series such as Grazia, Reptil, Domino, etc were made at the Gustavsberg factory and are more mass-produced, though some,such as Grazia may have been hand-painted/decorated

Here are some pictures of Stig Lindberg faience pieces with typical marks to the base


and here is a Stig studio piece - the mark is just about visible in the photo




Hope this is of use...

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two advertisements from a design magazine 1953 for Stig Lindberg and the wonderful Berndt Friberg. They might be of interest to lovers of Scandinavian ceramics...