Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory Värmdö, Sweden Jar with Cover 1899 Glazed porcelain Designed by Josef Ekberg 1877-1945 22-3/4 inches high, 13 inches in diameter Gift of the Decorative Arts Council and Daniel Morris and Denis Gallion, Historical Design Collection, New York 94.35a,b

• This jar with a cover was made at the Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory, near Stockholm, where high quality PORCELAIN was developed for the first time in Sweden in the late 1800s.
   
• During the Industrial Revolution, the introduction of steam power and the resulting automation of the factory greatly increased the efficiency and amount of porcelain and other CERAMIC production.
   
• Josef Ekberg designed this jar in the ART NOUVEAU style, which took its inspiration from graceful plant and animal forms and a widespread interest in science at the turn of the century.
   
• Most Art Nouveau objects were expensive, exclusive items purchased by a new upper class in Sweden with the desire and means to acquire such luxury goods.
   

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