Vintage Swedish Kockums Enamel Large Serving Bowl

Dimensions: 28cm diameter, 8cm high.
Code: METAL 5321

Vintage, Swedish, “Kockums”, enamel bowl, cream with green trim from the 1930s/40s, sourced in Chettinad, Tamil Nadu, South India. The base 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, vintage, unused condition with no enamel chips. This would pair perfectly with METAL 5421.