Berit Ternell Relief Pattern Stoneware Vase For Upsala-Ekeby, 1960s

– country: Sweden. – designer: Berit Ternell. – manufacture: Upsala-Ekeby. – material: stoneware. – finish: textured unglazed relief pattern with matte glazed. – year: 1964. – series: Arena. – colour: beige-brown, navy blue. – size: medium. – dimensions: length: 9, 5cm|width: 8, 5cm|height: 19, 5cm. – condition: excellent vintage condition, with a microscopic, imperceptible chip on the corner. – signed: 58 T Berit Ternell (1929–) is a distinguished Swedish ceramic artist and designer, renowned for her significant contributions to mid-20th-century Scandinavian ceramics. 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.