By the end of the 19th century, it was nearly everywhere.
It adorned pedestals, embellished urns, and decorated tiled stoves with stout Renaissance princes and ornamental vases. Majolica — that glossy glaze in deep, rich colours — was tailor-made for the lavish bourgeois salons that were the height of fashion just before the turn of the last century.
While majolica's history stretches further back, it's the decorative pieces of the late 1800s that take centre stage at Auktionshuset Kolonn. Compotes, pitchers, vases, and cachepots — mostly from Rörstrand, Gustafsberg and Höganäs. A lush design language in yellows, greens and browns, with touches of pink and light blue. A kind of tin-glazed maximalism that reads like an open storybook, drawing us into a lush universe of plants, putti, fabled creatures and flowers.
