Swedish Folk Art

Auctionet's Folk Art category covers handicrafts and furniture primarily originating from an artistic culture that emerged in Swedish rural districts circa 1650–1900. Items in this style are often crafted from wood, and often painted with floral motifs characteristic of the Dalecarlian kurbits style, for example. Items regularly listed in this category include cupboards/cabinets, tables, chairs, wall hangings, chests, cases, dishes and other receptacles/containers.

Highly-prized lots in this category include richly-decorated kronskåp cabinets from Hälsingland and Jämtland provinces, dalahäst ornamental wooden horses in the Dalecarlian style, distinctive, richly-decorated Ångermanlandsbrudar grandfather clocks, tables with stone tops (especially Komstad limestone), coffer tables, mössbord entrance-hall tables and rustic utensil holders. Some of the rarest items ever to go under the hammer on Auctionet are a pair of carved wooden candlesticks depicting men in blue and red coats with stand-up collars, likely from the early 19th century. Other pieces in Auctionet's catalogue of sold items include a wall cabinet crafted by Jöns Månsson in Forsa, Hälsingland, and a bridal belt fashioned in silver in 1851 by Lars Löfgren of Delsbo, Hälsingland.