A Considered Selection of Art and Objects

Ebba von Wachenfeldt is a Swedish glass artist based at her own Skeppsta glass studio in Sörmland, which she founded in 1995.

She trained at the Orrefors Glass School (1983–84) and later at the Penland School of Arts and Crafts in North Carolina, USA (1987). Her early career included experience at glass studios across England, the United States, Japan, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, shaping a practice rooted in both Scandinavian tradition and international craft dialogue.

Von Wachenfeldt’s work is represented in major museum collections including Ebeltoft Glasmuseum and Bornholms Kunstmuseum (Denmark), the Museum of American Glass (USA), the Museum of Design and Applied Art (Iceland), and Smålands Museum in Växjö, Sweden.

Alongside her studio practice, she has undertaken significant public commissions, including an altar cross for Oscar’s Little Church in Stockholm, a Last Supper ensemble for Fröstuna Parish in Gnesta, and reliefs for hospitals in Örebro and Eskilstuna.

She has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions internationally, with presentations in the Netherlands, Denmark, Japan, Belgium, England and across Sweden, reflecting a career of sustained international recognition within contemporary glass art.

Artist: Ebba Von Wachenfeldt

Period: 1959 - Present

Material: Glass

Dimensions: Height 20 cm

Condition: Vintage condition, no remarks

Drawing on rice paper, 24 × 32 cm, with frame 45 × 57 cm. Bleached signature, reads Gerell.

PROVENANCE
Flamingo Gallery, Falkenberg

LITERATURE

“Greta Gerell”, Greta Gerell Foundation. in 1979

Artist: Greta Gerell (1898-1982)

Medium: Mixed media on paper, signed

Period: Unknown

Dimensions: Picture area 24 × 32 cm, with frame 45 × 57 cm

Framing: Framed in gold leaf frame, glass

Condition: Vintage condition consistent with age

A sculptural pewter dish titled Höstlöv (“Autumn Leaf”).

Artist: Unknown

Medium: Hammered Pewter

Period: 1973

Dimensions: Diameter approx. 34 cm

Condition: Vintage condition consistent with age, no remarks

Smoked glass decanter with stopper, model G628, height 27 cm. Designed and manufactured in 1920’s (we will give you a moment to digest this fact).

Exquisite decanters made at Orrefors Sandvik and designed by Simon Gate in the 1920s-1930s Sweden. They have light brown tone in the glass. Wonderful shapes and lines.

Simon Gate was a glass maker and designer for Orrefors Glass Factory. He studied at the College of Technology in Stockholm and the Academy of Art where he studied painting. In 1916, when he was working as a graphic designer, he was recruited by the Orrefors director Albert Ahlin.

Founded in 1898, this glass manufacturer was one of the leading companies in the Scandinavian modernism movement and is revered by collectors for the fine craftsmanship and innovation of its superlative art glass.

Orrefors began making art glass — works that, distinct from mass-production pieces, are made in small numbers to showcase the skills and talents of artists and artisans — in 1913. Two of the first artists hired by the firm were Simon Gate and Edward Hald, who worked initially in the organic Art Nouveau style, and later proved adept with the geometric imagery of the Art Deco period. Orrefors won an international following when it presented such pieces in Paris in 1925 at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes — the design fair whose name gave rise to the term Art Deco.

His early years at Orrefors were spent worked closely with glassblowers to refine traditional glassmaking methods and developing two techniques: Graal, in which coloured glass is embodied in the body of the piece, and engraving. His style was conservative, drawing on traditional classical European models. He did, however, introduce a new range of colours into the Orrefors repetoire. His energy was prodigious but his style remained basically unchanged. He stayed with Orrefors for thirty years and died at the age of sixty two, suddenly and unexpectedly in May 1945

Designer: Simon Gate (1883–1945)

Manufacturer: Sandvik/Orrefors

Period: 1920’s

Material: Glass

Dimensions: H 27cm

Condition: Vintage condition, no remarks

Thomas Hellström (1924–2006) was a leading figure in 20th-century Swedish ceramics, working within the Nordic tradition of warm, expressive, and subtly humorous design.

After studying at Konstfack in Stockholm, he spent nearly five decades at the historic Nittsjö factory, one of Sweden’s most important ceramic workshops, renowned for its handcrafted stoneware rooted in folk tradition and everyday domestic forms. There, Hellström became celebrated for his animal figures, distinguished by softly rounded silhouettes and gentle, good-natured expressions.

His work is represented in the collection of the Swedish National Museum of Art and Design.

Designer: Thomas Hellström (1924–2006)

Period: 1960 - 1970

Origin: Sweden

Material: Glazed Ceramic

Dimensions: Height 30 cm

Condition: Vintage condition, no remarks

Floor Standing Biomorphic Wooden Sculpture titled Lind by Kristian Holmqvist (1928–2015), signed and dated 1985.
Provenance: Artist's estate.

Swedish artist Kristian Holmqvist (1928–2015) trained as a public school teacher but abandoned the teaching career at the age of 50. He then devoted himself full-time to artistic activities such as drawing, illustration, painting and sculpture. He drew inspiration from childhood memories, archaeology, anthropology and history. The human body, animals, nature and ornaments are recurring themes found in his artistic practice.

Artist: Kristian Holmqvist (1928–2015)

Material: Wood

Period: 1985

Dimensions: Height 89 cm

Condition: Vintage condition

A cloven stoneware bowl with textured surface covered in lilac and grey glaze, impressed CCP mark, diameter 26.5cm.

Artist: Chris Carter (British, born 1945)

Material: Stoneware

Period: Unknown

Dimensions: Diameter 26.5cm

Condition: Appears good with no obvious signs of faults, damage or restoration

Swedish artist Lennart Aschenbrenner (b. 1943) lives in Nice, France. He studied at the Scanian School of Painting and the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. This abstract lithograph is signed, dated and numbered.

Lennart Aschenbrenner has had about sixty solo exhibitions at galleries and art galleries in Sweden and France as well as participated in a number of group exhibitions at, among other things, graphics biennales in Europe such as the graphics biennials in Ljubljana, Slovenia and in Baden-Baden, Germany.

Lennart Aschenbrenner’s work is represented at about ten art museums, including the National Museum and Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the art museums in Gothenburg, Eskilstuna and Ystad, the Art Museum of North Jutland in Aalborg and the Fondation Provence-Cote d'Azur in Marseille.

Artist: Lennart Aschenbrenner (1943)

Medium: Lithograph

Period: 1986

Dimensions: Frame dimensions: 53 x 68 cm

Framing: Framed in a white frame, glass

Condition: Vintage condition consistent with age, no remarks