Essential Design 
25 January 2024
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Tapio Wirkkala

Sgrafitto tableware

Rosenthal
Finland / Germany, 1963
glazed porcelain largest: 3¼ h × 8½ dia in (8 × 22 cm) smallest: ⅝ h × 6¼ dia in (2 × 16 cm)
estimate: $500–700
result: $441
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Collection is comprised of eight cups, eight desert plates, eight shallow plates, seven salad plates, seven saucers, seven dinner plates, one serving bowl, one tray, and one sugar bowl and creamer; forty-nine pieces total. Printed manufacturer's mark to underside of each example 'Rosenthal Germany'.
literature: Tapio Wirkkala: Eye, Hand and Thought, Saarela, pg. 357

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My artistic world is the shape of my way of living and working. It has grown through those experiences which are everyday life to people living in the North. One can see the same continuous process of creating the phenomena in nature as there is in man. Repeated process—winter, spring, summer, autumn—and still always new and surprising.

Tapio Wirkkala

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