Birger Kaipiainen Large platter, 1950s

Birger Kaipiainen
Large platter, 1950s
Glazed earthenware, glaze pearls in relief.
51.5 x 53 x 6 cm
Produced by Arabia, Helsinki, Finland. Painted signature KAIPIAINEN.
Provenance
Acquired by the Dutch architect Johannes Jacobus Margarethus Vegter, 1960s-1970s
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature
Erik Zahle, ed., A Treasury of Scandinavian Design: The standard authority on Scandinavian-designed furniture, textiles, glass, ceramics, and metal, New York, 1961, p. 235, fig. 341 for a similar example
Domus (Milan), no. 387, February 1962, pp. 48-49 for similar examples
Charlotte and Peter Fiell, Scandinavian Design, Cologne, 2002, p. 343 for a similar example

Bonhams wishes to thank Petra Wirkkala from the Tapio Wirkkala Rut Bryk Foundation for her assistance with cataloguing the present lot.