This round Søholm bowl from the 1960s, attributed to Svend Aage Jensen, pairs a pale grey, speckled glaze with a painted decoration in cobalt blue. The unglazed base carries the impressed SØHOLM DENMARK mark of the Bornholm factory.
Jensen is best known as the decorator behind Søholm's Burgundia series, designed with Holm Sørensen from 1956, and pattern rather than form sits at the centre of his work. Here the decoration is organised around the middle of the bowl: three rounded, lens-like motifs, each crossed by fine lines, turn around a small central dot, and the brushwork is loose enough that the hand behind it remains visible. A darker blue band finishes the rim.
Outside, the glaze is thicker and more uneven, with small pits and variations of tone typical of Søholm's grey glazes of the period, and the pale speckled clay shows at the foot. The low, open shape and moderate size make it suitable as a fruit or serving bowl, or simply as a piece of decoration that holds its own on a table or sideboard.
Because the pattern was painted by hand, the spacing and weight of the lines differ from one example to the next, and no two bowls of this kind are exactly alike.
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