An Arabia Finland pottery pedestal bowl by Greta Lisa Jaderholm-Snellman, dated 1936, painted with

An Arabia Finland pottery pedestal bowl by Greta Lisa Jaderholm-Snellman, dated 1936, painted with stylised fish in black and red on a pale blue ground, and an Arabia pewter mounted tray by Greta Lisa Jaderholm-Snellman painted with stylised flowers, painted factory marks and monogram to bowl dated 1936, tray broken and rivetted, 30cm. diam,

20.5cm. high (2)

Provenance

Sir Ambrose Heal, thence by descent

Literature

Heal's At The Sign of the Fourposter' page122 for a contemporary photo of the artist standing by a Heal's horse van, 1936.

Catalogue notes

Greta Lisa Jaderholm-Snellman was born in Helsinki in 1894, studying at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in Helsinki in the 1920s. She held an exhibition at Heal & Son department store in London in 1937.