Sugar bowl

Olof Robert Lundgren, Turku, 1830’s. Height 27,5 cm.

The bottom half of the Biedermeier-style bowl has vertical bosses as a broad zone, typical of the ornamentation of the era. The use of cast silver strips is also typical of the era. The bottom of the bowl has a collar made of leaves; the tall foot consists of four oak leaves, which entwine at the top into a spiral and end in palmettes and paws at the bottom. The domed lid has a spherical knob in the middle and a decoration comprised of leaf motifs at the root of the knob.

Olof Robert Lundgren (active from 1821 onwards) was the son of goldsmith Olof Lundgren. He was apprenticed to his stepfather and F. Norring in Turku, and after working for a few years in Stockholm, Olof Robert Lundgren obtained his master’s qualifications in Turku in 1821. The production of Lundgren’s workshop was the most extensive of its time.

There were originally two identical sugar bowls, but only one of them was bought into the museum’s collections in 1913.

Source:

Borg 1972 (1935), s. 96–97.