Bjorn Wiinblad Rosenthal Studio-Linie White Porcelain Face Cruets, Pair, Lidded Danish Design, Mid-Century Modern

Danish artist Bjørn Wiinblad spent his career happily resisting the cool functionalism of his Scandinavian contemporaries. He filled his work instead with romance, fairy tales, and above all faces: dreaming, wide-eyed, and endlessly gentle. Trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, he began designing for the German manufactory Rosenthal in the 1950s, and his work became some of the most recognizable in its prestigious Studio-Linie. This pair of lidded oil and vinegar cruets shows that imagination at its most enchanting. Each has a bulbous, footed body topped by a fluted neck and a domed finial lid, with a serene face emerging from the porcelain and fine relief patterning running like lace across the surface. Finished in pure glazed white, they rely on form and shadow alone. They come from the estate of a well-traveled collector with ties to New York, London, and Europe.

Dimensions (each): 7" H