Description:

Friedl Holzer-Kjellberg for Arabia
Set of three tea cups with saucers, 1970s.
Set comprising three tea cups with matching saucers in white porcelain with pierced “rice porcelain” decoration. The elongated perforations filled with transparent glaze create a light and almost translucent appearance, while the simple rounded forms are characteristic of Friedl Holzer-Kjellberg’s later modernist porcelain designs for Arabia.

Origin: Finland.
Designer: Friedl Holzer-Kjellberg.
Material: Porcelain.
Dimensions:
– Tea cups: H. approx. 6 cm, D. approx. 13 cm.
– Saucers: D. approx. 16 cm.
Period: 1970s.
Condition: Excellent condition with minor signs of wear.

Bio:
Friedl Holzer-Kjellberg (1905–1993) was an Austrian-born ceramic artist who worked at Arabia in Finland from 1936. She gained international recognition for developing “rice porcelain”, a technique in which pierced decoration is filled with transparent glaze, giving the porcelain a delicate, almost textile-like quality. Her work represents a refined synthesis of technical innovation and Nordic modernism and is highly sought after by collectors today.