Pair of swoopy modern-form vases with deep tenmoku gloss glaze designed by Ulla Procope for Arabia Finland circa 1965... the taller is 5-3/4" high, 3-3/4" at the widest, the shorter 4" high, 5-1/4" at the widest, the shorter marked as shown, the taller unmarked -- both in mint condition = not a scratch. Ulla (Ulrike) Procope (1921-68) designed the wildly popular Ruska line of dinnerware for Arabia in 1960 -- these vases are a shiny departure, but quite similar and very much in line with the Zen aesthetic that won her the Milan Triennale diplome d
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Arabia |