Rörstand Porcelain Factory, Lidköping

Art Nouveau on Paper

A faience factory founded in 1726 in the Rörstrand Castle in Stockholm. From 1850 it also produced porcelain and decorative tiles. Between 1895 and 1915 Alf Wallander worked as the firm’s art director. The popularity of the factory’s products was shown by the Grand Prix awarded to it at the Paris International Exhibition of 1900.

Photograph - Porcelain vases, Rörstrands Porslinsfabriker
Photograph - Vase, unpainted porcelain, decorated with embossed chameleon, octopus and plant details, Rörstrands Porslinsfabriker
Photograph - Vases, Rörstrands Porslinsfabriker
Photograph - Vase, with light chestnut panels on the surface, emerging from a dark base, Rörstrands Porslinsfabriker
Photograph - Vase with embossed pine branch and flying owl, Rörstrands Porslinsfabriker
Photograph - Vase with a female nude stretching out obliquely from the surface, Rörstrands Porslinsfabriker
Photograph - Vase with plastic flying cranes on the shoulder and painted clouds on the body
Photograph - Vase with plastic crab and plant leaves painted on the surface
Photograph - Vase with light chestnut leaves emerging from the dark base, the stems of which form arches at the mouth
Photograph - Ornamental vessel with a row of pecking roosters emerging from a dark base, the wavy rim of the vessel follows the line of the roosters' tail feathers
Photograph - Vase with embossed swans, coloured porcelain, Paris Universal Exposition 1900, Rörstrands Porslinsfabriker
Photograph - Vase with embossed poppies, coloured porcelain, Rörstrands Porslinsfabriker
Photograph - Decorative vessels, Rörstrands Porslinsfabriker
Photograph - Ornamental vessel decorated with plastic peacocks
Photograph - Vase with plastic poppy flowers and leaves painted on the surface, Rörstrands Porslinsfabriker A.B.
Photograph - Vase with plastic tree trunk, leaves, branches, Turin International Exhibition of Decorative Art, 1902.