Id rörstrand
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Rörstrand, Sweden &#; Annual Christmas Plate &#; Jultallrik &#; No. 4 in Series &#; &#;Nils in Lapland&#; &#; Selma Lagerlöf &#;The Wonderful Adventures of Nils&#; &#; Gunnar Nylund &#; Ltd. ed.
Description
Rörstrand, Sweden annual Christmas Plate &#; Jultallrik Number 4 in the series. The edition continues the Nils Holgersson series with &#;Nils i Lappland&#; / &#;Nils in Lapland&#;. The motif has been fetched from &#;The Wonderful Adventures of Nils&#; by the famous Swedish novelist Selma Lagerlöf. Limited edition. Ø ca 19,5 cm / approx. inches. Design: Gunnar Nylund. Made in Sweden.
Lapps and reindeer were also coming down from the mountains.
They came wandering in an orderly fashion: One lapp
at the head of the procession and then the herd
with the big bulls in the front rank,
then a row of pack reindeer which
carried the lapps&#; tent and their belongings,
and in the rear seven or eight people.
That is how Nils Holgersson experienced Lapland in Selma Lagerlöf&#;s much appreciated story &#;The Wonderful Adventures of Nils&#; (). Lapland is actually a whole region in the north of Europe stretching from the north of Norway&#;s Atlantic coast over Sweden, Finl
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Rörstrand
Rörstrand
Stockholm, Gothenburg, Lidköping, now Höganäs, Skåne, Sweden.
Hersteller / Manufacturer.
Rörstrand, founded in , is one of Sweden's oldest manufacturers. Rörstrand founded Arabia, Finland in to enable trading with Russia. In , Gothenborgs porcelain factory (Göteborgs Porslinfabrik) was bought and Rörstrand moved operations there in , closing down the factory in Stockholm.. After the merger with Lidköpings Porslinsfabrik in , Rörstrand's relocation from Gothenborg to Lidköping began in and was completed in , becoming Rörstrand's headquarters. Rörstrand became part of the Uppsala-Ekeby Group between and and was then bought by the Finnish company Wärtsilä Oy in In Wärtsilä Oy bought Gustavsbergs Porslinsfabrik and the Finnish Hackman Group acquired the company in Rörstrand was purchased by Fiskars in , and has now moved to Höganäs.
Reference: Rörstrand RörstrandMuseum
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Join us on a journey through design, materials and the history of working lives. From Chinese inspired 18th century blue and white faience, via the romantic dinner services of the 19th century, with sometimes as many as different pieces, and bone china which actually does contain djur bone ash, on to the 20th century when the ämne of choice, feldspar porcelain, gave us design classics like Mon Amie and Swedish Grace, up to the present day. It&#;s also a journey from Stockholm to Gothenburg to Lidköping, where the Lidköpings Porslin factory already was, until finally in production was moved abroad. Those of you who have turned cups and saucers also know that it is an exciting branding journey with a variety of stamps and signatures, where the Rörstrand factory was initially the fokuserad point and then left room for the artists to take center stage.
The museum fryst vatten in part of the former porcelain factory, and the old brick factory wall serves as a beautiful backdrop for Gunnar Nyland’s fountain which provides a soothing welcome bygd the ingång. Completely new exhibitions were opened in in which the factory, the artefacts, the artists and the factory workers can all shine. But al