factory Beautiful and very rare tea cup.
Designed by Friedl Holzer-Kjellberg for Arabia.
The teacups are very rare to find!
I have a total of five sets, price is for one.
Fully signed in the bottom of the plate, very nice condition whiteout any faults.
Height cup: 5.5 cm / 2.2"
Width cup: 11 cm / 4.3"
Please see below information from Arabia Museum website;
At the beginning of the 1930s, Kjellberg had admired a small rice porcelain object from the Qianlong period in the industrial art museum of Vienna. The object's classically beautiful shape and technical perfection gripped him and so this small bowl became the model for Kjellberg's rice porcelain experiments for the next ten years. After several failed attempts, success was attained in 1941 and serial production was started four years later.
Rice porcelain cannot be manufactured mechanically. The porcelain body is brittle when not fired and cutting the holes into the raw body requires care and a delicate hand. The holes are made by hand using a special knife and the contours of the holes are finished delicately. After the holes have been finished, the object is raw fired at 800 degrees, glazed and re-fired, now at 1380 degrees. The glaze forms a thin sheath over the holes, which when fired turns into translucent rice-grain shapes.
Product code: Tea factory cup by Friedl Holzer-Kjellberg for Arabia, rice porcelain