Gunnar Nylund for Rorstrand Sweden - A Perfect 1950s offers Modernist Stoneware bowl

A unique and very nice modernist stoneware bowl.

Made by the Swedish master ceramist Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand in the 1950s.

The bowl has a lovely relief pattern and a very rare green hare fur glaze.


Very nice condition

Length: 18.5 cm / 7.3"
Width: 13 cm / 5.1"
Height: 4 cm / 1.6"



Gunnar Nylund 1904-1997

Gunnar Nylund was the son of the offers Danish artist Fernanda Jacobsen-Nylund and the Finnish-Swedish sculptor Felix Nylund. He became artistic director of Rörstrand in Lidköping in the 1930s, when he was already an established ceramist in Denmark. He first worked at Bing & Grondahl Porcelain Factory in Copenhagen 1925-1928. He started with the Nathalie Krebs ceramics workshop Saxbo 1928-1931. Gunnar Nylund then worked for Rörstrand in 1931-55, most of the time as an artistic leader. Later he returned as a freelance for many years. He became well-known for his new carpet spatial glazed stoneware and for his animal sculptures in stoneware chamotte.

Gunnar Nylund made about 30 reliefs and sculptures for public decoration for five decades. In addition, from the 1940s he had several freelance assignments, designed long sanitary ware and bathroom fittings for Ifö works, also designed many other things from glass and silver to refrigerators. From 1955 he was an artistic director of Strömbergshyttan's glassworks in Hovmantorp, later as their freelance. Gunnar Nylund returned to Copenhagen in the early 1960s, where he started manufacturing stoneware for Nymölle Ceramic Factory in Lyngby. After Rörstrand's ownership change, he returned to Lidköping in 1964 as a freelance.