JIE Gantofta | Tulpan | Beetroot Jar | 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, sugar jars, salt pigs & flour crocks (all listed elsewhere). There are listings for all that I've managed to collect, but it's 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!).

This one is super rare! What I love about it is that it represents what was once present at every Swedish sandwich table, which I kind of knew because my parents in law often have it when we get together. I love to see that embodied in Ella's design. 

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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.'