JIE Gantofta | Tulpan | Tea Caddy | 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, larger items like the sugar jar, its sister salt pig & the flour crock (listed elsewhere) and medium size canisters like this tea caddy. There are listings for all that I've managed to collect, but its slow going because ideally with the tulip design you also want the tulip bulb lid and it's sometimes tricky to get both (I therefore have several of them without the teak lid, waiting for when I find them!) 

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All these jars 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. Which means the few they produced are in great demand. These by Ella Bergstrand, and even more so Anita Nylund who produced the series 'our little town.'