Nicholas Savard
Mid-Century Danish Stoneware Vase by Marie Hjorth
$2,300.00
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Nicholas Savard
Mid-Century Danish Stoneware Vase by Marie Hjorth
Mid-Century Danish stoneware vase by Marie Hjorth. Signed on base. Circa 1960 - 1970's. 11.75" h x 9" diameter
About Hjorth Pottery
Lauritz Hjorth ( 1834-12 ) founded a pottery studio on Bornholm in 1859. and in 1862 he started the terracotta production in Ronne. Bornholm, is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea with natural deposits of clay for pottery production. A number of other well-known potteries lay side by side on the island: Søholm, Michael Andersen, Ipsen, and many more.
The Hjorth family
Lauritz Hjorth was educated at the Royal Porcelain Factory in Copenhagen and on the Ipsen's Terracotta Factory on Bornholm. Several generations of the Hjorth family ran the company right up to 1980-90’s where the factory became a museum. Second generation Hans and Peter Hjorth and third generation Erik Hjorth developed in different ways the pottery production, and fourth generation Marie and Ulla Hjorth designed the modernist line.
