Lisa Larson Gustavsberg Memorial Jubieum Ceramic Plate

This is a couple's ceramic plate from the series called Väggplattor (wall hanging ceramic plate) designed in 1966. In Gustavsberg, there was a department called G-Studion, where well-known designers such as Stig Lindberg and Lisa Larson produced art works, apart from the mass-produced line. This is a work made in the atelier. Each piece is handmade, and the back is stamped with the name of Lisa Larson.

The original title, Jubieum, originally meant "anniversary", but in the Old Testament it means a fifty-year Jewish festival. In Europe and the United States, this year will be celebrated as the Golden Jubilee. Japan also celebrates golden wedding ceremonies, but this is a concept that permeated through the introduction of the Golden Jubilee customs from Europe and the United States during the Meiji period. The frame is literally bordered in gold, and an elderly couple sit side by side in harmony. Among Lisa Larson's works, it is a very heavy ceramic plate with a size of 35 cm square and weighing less than 4 kg. Consider using it as a gift for a golden wedding.

■ Details
Manufacturer: Gustavsberg / Gustavsberg
Designer: Lisa Larson
Series: Väggplattor / Ceramic wall hanging
Years: 1966-1975
Condition: ★★★★★ (5: Complete)
There is no noticeable damage and no fading, so it is in dead stock condition. There is a dent in the lower right corner of the main body, but it is not a scratch on the surface of the gold glaze, but a manufacturing process.

■ Lisa Larson (1931- )
Born in a village called Härlunda with a population of about 500 in the Älmhult district of the Kronoberg county in the Småland region in southern Sweden. When I was young, I wanted to be a fashion designer, but after entering the Gothenburg College of Art, I learned ceramics. At one point, Stig Lindberg discovered him in a competition, and after a one-year trial period, he officially joined Gustavsberg as a designer. Soon after, in 1955, he announced the Lilla zoo series, and in 1964 he devised the famous Afrika series of lion statues.

In addition to Gustavsberg, Lisa Larson has also designed for Höganäs, national retail giant Åhléns and German pottery manufacturer Rosenthal. After leaving Gustavsberg in 1979, he took the position of a freelance artist who entered into freelance contracts with companies rather than working exclusively with them, and continued his creative activities freely while working in various fields. In 1979 and 1981, he held solo exhibitions at the Seibu Department Store in Tokyo, and it is said that 70,000 people visited the solo exhibition in 1981.