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Lidded Jar
  • TitleLidded Jar
  • Technique/ MaterialPewter, engraved decor
  • DimensionsDimensions: (h x diam) 17 x 10,5 cm
  • DatingManufactured 1930
  • Artist/Maker Design: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, Swedish, born 1884, dead 1965
    Manufacturer: Astrid M. Aagesen AB, Helsingborg, Sweden
  • CategoryApplied art and design, Metal
  • Inventory No.NMK 172/1930
  • AcquisitionPurchase 1930
  • Description
    Artist/Maker
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    The jar with was designed by the
    modernism-focused visual artist
    Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, GAN.
    In a letter to the pewter company’s
    director Astrid M. Aagesen he
    expressed how pleased he was with
    his new apartment in Stockholm:
    “I’m living in functionalist style …
    my window is two metres wide and
    brings the entire fairytale cityscape
    indoors... It’s fitting that I live in
    an environment that I have helped
    to prepare.”