2008.04.02.
PRESS RELEASE
FIVE CENTURIES OF SWEDISH SILVER FROM THE RÖHSSKA MUSEUM

The only museum in Sweden dedicated to Design, Fashion and Decorative Arts.

For almost two years the exhibition Five Centuries of Swedish Silver has toured through North America and China. The exhibition was first displayed at the San Francisco International Airport Museum in 2006. From there, the exhibition travelled on to National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and Scandinavia House in New York in 2007. After this it went on to Shanghai Museum, the last stop at the exhibition tour in the autumn of 2007. The 180 unique items from the Röhsska Museum’s collection are objects from the Swedish Silver tradition from early 16^th Century until today, which we are happy to finally presents here in Göteborg during the summer of 2008. The exhibition Five Centuries of Swedish Silver consists of tankards, coffeepots, teapots, bowls, candlesticks, vases, cocktail shakers and place settings which all reveal the different trends and customs in Sweden spanning many centuries; as well as demonstrate how international exchange has created compelling interpretations of style, technique and design in the process of silver making. The oldest piece is a spoon from the beginning of the sixteenth century and the most recent item is from year 2006. Among the works included in the exhibition are a teapot made in 1768 by Johan Christoffer Jungmarker; a cocktail shaker from 1937-38 by Count Sigvard Bernadotte, designer for Georg Jensen in Copenhagen (1930-2002); and a contemporary teapot (2004) by Lars Håkansson.

The exhibition runs 4th of June – 28th of September 2008

You are invited the press showing and lunch on Tuesday 3 June at 
10.00 am.

For more information Five Centuries of Swedish Silver: Josefin Kilner, curator,
phone: +46 31 368 31 63, josefin.kilner@kultur.goteborg.se

Public relations: Birgitta Wåhlander, phone: +46 31 368 31 53, birgitta.wahlander@kultur.goteborg.se

RÖHSSKA MUSEET
Vasagatan 37-39, GÖTEBORG
www.designmuseum.se

To down load hi-res images: Right click on the image or on the file name (or Ctrl + click for Mac) and choose "save target as" (Explorer). Object: Photographer: File name:  Format: Color format: COFFEE POT Maker’s mark of Johan Bergengren, Master Silversmith in Kristianstad, Sweden, 1752-1788, made in 1764. Silver. This coffee pot is one of the most intriguing rococo coffee pots in Sweden during the 18th century, flower final. Height: 27 cm/ 10,623 inches Mikael Lammgård rkm51_1923.jpg 13,6 x 16,3 cm @ 300 dpi RGB ......................................................... Object: Photographer: File name:   Format: Color format: TEA POT Maker’s mark of Johan Christoffer Jungmarker, Master Silversmith in Göteborg, Sweden, 1752-1779, made in 1768. Silver in an unusual shape with two symmetric curved spouts, cover with flower final. Height: 25,7 cm/ 10, 12 inches Mikael Lammgård rkm52_1923.jpg 22 x 14,7 cm @ 300 dpi RGB ......................................................... Object: Photographer: File name:   Format: Color format: SUGAR BOWL AND COVER Maker’s mark of Pehr Zethelius, Master Silversmith in Stockholm, Sweden 1766-1810, made in 1796. Parcel-gilt silver, pierced support, body with engraved acanthus and insert plaque, doomed cover with pine cone final. Height: 23,2 cm/9,106 inches Mikael Lammgård rkm365_1920.jpg 14,9 x 13,2 cm @ 300 dpi RGB ......................................................... Object: Photographer: File name:   Format: Color format: TEAPOT AND COVER Maker´s mark of Adolf Zethelius, Master Silversmith in Stockholm, Sweden, 1803-1839, made in 1813. Silver, in shape of a roman oil lamp, base with Medusa head, beading and meander. Height 17,5 cm/6,86 inches Mikael Lammgård rkm15a_2005.jpg 20,5 x 14,6 cm @ 300 dpi RGB ......................................................... Object: Photographer: File name:   Format: Color format: COFFEE SET Maker’s mark of Wiwen Nilsson, Master Silversmith in Lund, Sweden, 1923-1974, made in 1923 to the Jubilee Exhibition in Göteborg 1923.  Silver, ivory, tapering cylindrical. Height: Coffee pot 30,5 cm/11,97 inches Mikael Lammgård rkm123_2004.jpg 20,8 x 16,7 cm @ 300 dpi RGB .........................................................   Object: Photographer: File name:   Format: Color format: COCKTAIL SHAKER Maker’s mark of the Count Sigvard Bernadotte (1907-2002), designer for Georg Jensen in Copenhagen, Denmark 1930-2002, made in 1937-1938. Silver, cylindrical body with engraved geometric design. Height: 16 cm/6,28 inches. Mikael Lammgård rkm94_2002.jpg 13,3 x 14,9 cm @ 300 dpi RGB ......................................................... Object: Object: Photographer: File name:   Format: Color format: EWER Maker´s mark of the Count Sigvard Bernadotte (1907-2002), designer for Georg Jensen in Copenhagen, Denmark 1930-2002, made after 1944. Silver, gadrooned body. Height: 16,5 cm/6,47 inches. BOWL Maker´s mark of the Count Sigvard Bernadotte (1907-2002), designer for Georg Jensen in Copenhagen, Denmark 1930-2002, made after 1944. Silver, gadrooned body on round base. Diameter: 25,5 cm/10 inches. Mikael Lammgård rkm11_2005.jpg 22,4 x 15 cm @ 300 dpi RGB ......................................................... Object: Photographer: File name:   Format: Color format: TEA POT Maker’s mark of Olle Ohlsson, Master Silversmith in Stockholm, Sweden since 1963, made in 1976. Parcel-gilt silver, handle of pear tree. Height: 13,8 cm/ 5,4 inches. Mikael Lammgård rkm44_1977.jpg 17 x 11,5 cm @ 300 dpi RGB ......................................................... Object: Photographer: File name:   Format: Color format: TEAPOT Maker´s mark of Wolfgang Gessl, Master Silversmith in Stockholm, Sweden since 1980, made in 1999. Silver, slightly compressed spherical, oxidized handle. Height: 12.5 cm/4,9 inches. Mikael Lammgård rkm34_2005.jpg 21,4 x 14,6 cm @ 300 dpi RGB ......................................................... Object: Photographer: File name:   Format: Color format: TEA POT Maker´s mark of Lars Håkansson, Master Silversmith in Höör, Sweden since 1978, made in 2004. Silver, with blue handle. Height: 21,5 cm/8,4 inches. Mikael Lammgård rkm109_2004.jpg 15 x 15 cm @ 300 dpi RGB .........................................................