Carl-Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand
Footed bowl model “SHI”, ca. 1950’s
Country
Sweden
Colour
Material
Stoneware
Glaze
Finish
Matte with incised pattern on the foot
Height
10 cm ( 4 8/8 in )
Diameter
14 cm ( 5 1/2 in )
Marking
Incised “R (with three crowns), Sweden, CHS SHI”
Alfred H. Barr who wrote the catalog for a Cubism and Abstract Art exhibition in 1936 at MoMA defined biomorphism as, “Curvilinear rather than rectilinear, decorative rather than structural and romantic rather than classical in its exaltation of mystical, the spontaneous and the irrational.”