Marieberg faience
The Stockholm factory’s Rococo faience: tureens shaped like vegetables and dishes with relief flowers.
Marieberg was founded in 1758 and competed with Rörstrand for nearly thirty years. Under Pierre Berthevin and Henrik Sten the factory made some of Sweden’s finest faience. Examples are in the Nationalmuseum and the Nordic Museum.
Materials: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware), enamel colours
Manufacture: Formed in plaster moulds, glazed and painted with muffle colours in a lower second firing.
Vessels shaped like cabbages, asparagus or birds – Rococo playfulness.
The mark MB under the base with a date and the painter’s sign.