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Title: Green Pitcher Set... Holmegaard, possibly Iittala?
Post by: Pinkspoons on May 08, 2006, 08:45:31 AM

The design looks familiar, but typically I can't find any reference to it anymore (  :roll: ) - but the colour and shape suggest JE Bang c.1950-60. The set was picked up at a Danish flea market.

(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b108/pinkspoons/teal-pitcher.jpg)

Title: Green Pitcher Set... Holmegaard, possibly Iittala?
Post by: Pip on May 08, 2006, 04:46:56 PM

Dunno Nic (wish I did) but they're really nice!  I'll have a look through some of my ref sources and see if I can find anything.  When were you in a Danish fleamarket? <<<jealous

Title: Green Pitcher Set... Holmegaard, possibly Iittala?
Post by: Pinkspoons on May 08, 2006, 05:45:45 PM

Oh, I wasn't - I have international runners who find such things for me these days.  :wink:

Title: Green Pitcher Set... Holmegaard, possibly Iittala?
Post by: Pip on May 08, 2006, 05:48:45 PM

ooooh get you! lol

Title: Green Pitcher Set... Holmegaard, possibly Iittala?
Post by: Pinkspoons on May 08, 2006, 05:55:06 PM

Nah, I bought a load of lamps on eBay from a very nice woman in Denmark, and we got chatting afterwards, and whenever she spots anything she thinks I might like in charity shops and fairs/markets, she buys it. If it turns out I don't want whatever it is, she just puts it on eBay.

It's a good system, I think. I keep in touch with a few of the people I buy from on eBay and have similar deals going on.

Title: Green Pitcher Set... Holmegaard, possibly Iittala?
Post by: Pip on May 10, 2006, 11:42:21 AM

Have you considered Kaj Franck for Iittala - there's something about this set that's making me think of him... :?

Title: Green Pitcher Set... Holmegaard, possibly Iittala?
Post by: Pinkspoons on May 10, 2006, 12:18:12 PM

It's not really my field - I'll look into it. :)

I'll tweak the posting title and see if anyone else might recognise it.

Title: Green Pitcher Set... Holmegaard, possibly Iittala?
Post by: Pinkspoons on May 10, 2006, 01:02:45 PM

The closest I could find was a set of loosely similar tumblers by Saara Hopea for Nuutajarvi:

(http://www.vjak.net/tuotteet/PX_Sh1.jpg)

Title: Re: Green Pitcher Set... Holmegaard, possibly Iittala?
Post by: Pinkspoons on December 22, 2007, 08:16:46 PM

And the result is: 'Greenland' series, designed by Per Lütken in 1960, manufactured 1961-64.