A Swedish pink Mansta or Garbergstyp porphyry tazza second quarter 19th century

the inside centred by a roundel, on a trumpet foot and octagonal base; in three sections

Colour slightly darker overall and much more attractive than catalogue photograph. Some minor chips generally and there is a medium sized chip beneath overhanging top of the foot and there is also a medium sized chip to underside of rim of the bowl section which are not too noticeable and can easily be restored. In overall very good condition.
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Comparative Literature:
Exhibition Catalogue, Porfyr, 15th December 1985-2nd February 1986, Bukowskis, Stockholm, Sweden, p. 93 no. 130, for a tazza of identical form with the mark of Loka Risberg.

A pair of identical tazze are in the Entrance Hall of the National Museum, Stockholm, illustrated by Severin Solders, Alvdalens Sockens Historia, Vol. II, Stockholm, 1939, plate 27, reproduced here in fig.1.