Royal Copenhagen

Glazed stoneware, with decoration in relief.
Manufacturers mark to the underside. Signed by the artist to the underside: 'SALTO'.

Ceramics

Vase

Literature:
Bruhn, Susanne, Wirnfeldt, Pia, 'Axel Salto: Master of Stoneware', exh. cat. CLAY - Keramikmuseum (Denmark) 2017, p.184, cat. no. 354.

Københavns Stentøjsbrænderi

Designed 1929, executed 1929-1930.
Glazed stoneware.
With producers blue symbol.

History:
In 1926, potter Carl Hallier founded a small studio, Københavns Stentøjsbrænderi, with sculptor Arne Bang. Axel Salto joined in 1929, and his collaboration with Hallier proved pivotal. They experimented with form and glaze, influenced by Hallier’s concurrent work at the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory. This overlap explains the similarities in the ceramics from both workshops. This vase was produced during that significant period. By late 1930, Hallier left the studio due to a conflict of interest with Royal Copenhagen, where he continued full-time. Salto also departed, later becoming a ‘paying guest’ at the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory in 1933.

Literature:
Exhibition catalogue, 'Det Brændende Nu - Axel Salto', Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen, 1989, p. 75.
Bruhn, Susanne, Wirnfeldt, Pia, 'Axel Salto: Master of Stoneware', exh. cat. CLAY - Keramikmuseum (Denmark) 2017, p.58-59, 174.

Model no. 20.566, designed 1944.
Stoneware in yellow-green glaze, with brown highlights, decoration in relief.
Manufacturers mark and model no. to the underside. Signed by the artist to the underside: 'SALTO'.

'Budding' Vase

Literature:
Bruhn, Susanne, Wirnfeldt, Pia, 'Axel Salto: Master of Stoneware', exh. cat. CLAY - Keramikmuseum (Denmark) 2017, p.174, cat. no. 153.

Glazed stoneware, decoration in relief at the upper and lower rim.
Signed with artist's monogram to the underside, dated January 1887.

Unique Vase

Literature: 
Brandes, Peter, Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen, Hans, Wivel, Mikael, 'Thorvald Bindesbøll - Ceramic Works', p. 148–149.

Bing & Gröndahl

Unglazed stoneware. 
Base with Artist's facsimile signature and manufacturer's monogram.

Sculpture

Glazed stoneware. 
Signed R. Gauguin, B&G.

Unique Sculpture

Literature: 
Champion, Jean-Loup, 'Jean René Gauguin. 1881–1961. Sculpteur et céramiste', Paris 2014, p.10. (monumental version with artist)

Porcelain with over-and under glaze.
Manufacturer's marks and dated to the underside. Signed 'Ane Mari' to the base.

'Ane Mari' Nodding Sculpture

Model no. 20.560, designed in 1943.
Stoneware in Sung glaze, with decoration in relief.
Manufacturers mark to the underside. Impressed 'EO'. Signed by the artist to the underside: 'SALTO'.

Literature:
Bruhn, Susanne, Wirnfeldt, Pia, 'Axel Salto: Master of Stoneware', exh. cat. CLAY - Keramikmuseum (Denmark) 2017, p.173, cat. no. 148.

Model no. 2428, designed 1924, executed before 1935. 
Transparent glazed porcelain.
With painted manufactuer's mark, three blue wave lines, inscribed 2428.

'Bathing Girl' Sculpture

Porcelain with over-and under glaze.
Manufacturer's marks and date marks to the underside.

'Moon Girl' Sculpture

Blanc de Chine.
Manufacturer's marks and date marks to the underside.

Hand thrown, hand applied and carved, glazed stoneware.
Incised 'SALTO', dated 1937, and manufacturer's mark to the underside.

Unique 'Budding' Vase

History:
This unique ‘Budding’ vase was very likely made by Axel Salto himself in 1937. The model is similar to no. 20713, but it has different dimensions and no. 20713 was put into production by Royal Copenhagen seven years later, in 1944. It is therefore most likely that this unique vase was an experiment by Salto himself. The vase would have been cast by his foremost potter and collaborator Carl Halier. After which Salto himself would have applied the ‘ buds’. If you feel this vase inside, you can feel Salto's fingertips that pressed on the wet clay to apply the buds. The carving, made with carving knives, is raw and immediate, unlike Royal Copenhagen's manufactured models. The use of these tools goes hand in hand with Salto's development in the same year, in which he was working regularly with wood engravings, using the same materials.  


We would like to thank Susanne Bruhn (PhD fellow, CLAY Museum Denmark) for help with cataloguing. 


Literature:
Bruhn, Susanne, Wirnfeldt, Pia, 'Axel Salto: Master of Stoneware', exh. cat. CLAY - Keramikmuseum (Denmark) 2017, p.177, cat. no. 218. (reference to model no. 20713)

Model no. 21330, designed 1955.
Stoneware in Oxblood glaze,with green highlights, decoration in relief.
Manufacturers mark and model no. to the underside. Signed by the artist to the underside: 'SALTO'.

Literature:
Bruhn, Susanne, Wirnfeldt, Pia, 'Axel Salto: Master of Stoneware', exh. cat. CLAY - Keramikmuseum (Denmark) 2017, p.180, cat. no. 286.

Model no. 20.701, designed 1944.
Glazed stoneware, decoration in relief.
Manufacturers mark to the underside. Signed by the artist to the underside: 'SALTO'.

'Sprouting' Vase

Literature:
Bruhn, Susanne, Wirnfeldt, Pia, 'Axel Salto: Master of Stoneware', exh. cat. CLAY - Keramikmuseum (Denmark) 2017, p.176, cat. no. 206.

Glazed stoneware. 
Inscribed 'SALTO / 1937' with blue three line wave.

Vase in the 'Budding' Style

Saxbo

Glazed stoneware. 
Artist monogram and incised factory stamp.

Coloured, unglazed and glazed clay.
Inscribed with artists signature to the underside.

Model no. 20.560, designed in 1943.
Stoneware in Solfatara glaze, with decoration in relief.
Manufacturers mark to the underside. Signed by the artist to the underside: 'SALTO'.

Provenance:
C.C. Thomsen, Mrs. Esther Thomsen;
Thence by Descent. 

Photographed together with: ref. <a href="https://www.jacksons.se/products/vase-2306010" target="_blank">2306010</a>.

History:
In 1932, the Danish textile manufacturer C.C. Thomsen and his wife, Mrs. Ester Thomsen, had their new home built at Bernsdorffsvej in Gentofte, north of Copenhagen. Arne Jacobsen, one of the young, pioneering architects of the time, was commissioned to design the villa. The couple selected the furniture with care, and an eye for Danish architecture and decorative arts. Their collection of ceramic works by Axel Salto were acquired from the 1930s to the 1950s.  

Literature:
Bruhn, Susanne, Wirnfeldt, Pia, 'Axel Salto: Master of Stoneware', exh. cat. CLAY - Keramikmuseum (Denmark) 2017, p.173, cat. no. 148.

Glazed stoneware. 
Signed: 'R. Gauguin'. Signed and stamped with producer's marks: 'B&G'.

Unique Bull Sculpture

Model no. 20.733, designed in 1945.
Stoneware glazed with Gundestrup glaze, decor in relief. 
Signed 'SALTO', with three waves to the reverse.

Literature: 
Bruhn, Susanne, Wirnfeldt, Pia, 'Axel Salto: Master of Stoneware', exh. cat. CLAY - Keramikmuseum (Danmark) 2017, p.178, cat. no. 238.

Model no. 20.804, designed in 1946.
Stoneware, with decoration in relief.
Manufacturers mark and model no. to the underside. Signed by the artist to the underside: 'SALTO'.

Large Bowl

Literature: 
Bruhn, Susanne, Wirnfeldt, Pia, 'Axel Salto: Master of Stoneware', exh. cat. CLAY - Keramikmuseum (Danmark) 2017, p.179, cat. no. 258.

Model no. 20.561, designed in 1943. This example executed in 1957.
Stoneware in Oxblood glaze, with decoration in relief.
Manufacturers mark and model no. to the underside. Signed by the artist to the underside: 'SALTO'.

Literature: 
Bruhn, Susanne, Wirnfeldt, Pia, 'Axel Salto: Master of Stoneware', exh. cat. CLAY - Keramikmuseum (Danmark) 2017, p.149, cat. no. 149.

Model no. 20.676. Designed 1944.
Glazed stoneware, decor in relief. 
Inscribed 'Salto' and painted with blue three line wave to underside of base.

Bowl

Literature:
Bruhn, Susanne, Wirnfeldt, Pia, 'Axel Salto: Stentøjsmesteren', 2017, p.175, cat. nr. 181.

Københavns Lervarefabrik

Incised and glazed stoneware. 
Signed monogram to the inside, dated: '1901'.
Made in the Copenhagen Lervarefabrik, Eifrig. 

Literature: 
Peter Brandes, Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen & Henrik Wivel, 'Thorvald Bindesbøll – Ceramic Works', Rhodos, 1997, pp. 110–111 (similar example illustrated).