Vintage Enamel Swedish Kockums Saucepan

Dimensions: 16cm diameter, 9.5cm high, 32cm long including handle.
Code: METAL 6121

Vintage, Swedish, “Kockums”, enamel saucepan with two pouring spouts, cream with green trim from the 1930s/40s, sourced in Chettinad, Tamil Nadu, South India. The handle is also green and has a hole at the end so it can be hung from a hook on the wall. The base of the pan has the original mark of the Kockums factory. This Swedish enamelware was produced by the Kockums family who began their factory in 1893 in Ronneby, Sweden. Kockums's products were made in several different colours, but it was the classic cream with the dark green edge that became the most popular.

The Chettiars were a community of Indians (who originated from the Chettinad region) that lived and worked in Burma during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of this community were very successful traders and maintained their family mansions in Chettinad to celebrate festivals and weddings. Often these splendid homes were beautifully decorated and filled with fine materials like Italian marble, Venetian chandeliers, Burmese lacquerware and enamelware from Sweden, Czechoslovakia and Britain.

In excellent, unused, vintage condition, with no enamel chips.