JIE Gantofta | Tulpan | Salt Pig | Bergstrand

I'm very fond of this tulip design by Ella Bergstrand, and throughout my china journey have succeeded in collecting several of them. The design is on spice jars, and larger items like this salt pig and it's sister flour crock.

They were produced by JIE (short for John Ewert ’Jie’ Johnson) at the factory in Gantofta after 1952 (which is when JIE started to produce household goods). Later that same decade, Jie started to print its designs with silk screens because hand painting proved too costly, and by the mid 60s, Jie had moved out of household ceramics altogether.