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Jackie Lynd
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Jacqueline "Jackie" Lynd was born in 1948 in Northern Ireland and trained in ceramics there and in England before joining Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, where she developed her grounding in industrial porcelain production. In 1973 she moved to Sweden, and the following year she began a sixteen-year collaboration with Rörstrand Porslinsfabriker AB that would define her career.
At Rörstrand, Lynd worked both independently and alongside the sculptor Carl-Harry Stålhane, dividing responsibilities so that Stålhane shaped the vessel forms while Lynd conceived the painted decoration. That partnership produced Nordica (1978-1987), one of the factory's strongest-selling tableware ranges of the period, with its subdued Nordic palette applied in-glaze to everyday shapes. The collaboration model suited Lynd's particular strength: a fluent, observational hand that found motifs in Scandinavian flora and the quieter details of the natural world she encountered after settling permanently in Österlen in south-eastern Sweden.
Beyond Nordica, Lynd carried her own signature tableware ranges through Rörstrand's catalogue across the full span of her time there. Isolde ran from 1976 to 1985, Japonica from 1977 to 1982, Julia from 1985 to 1987, and Eden carried its pale blue in-glaze transfer through to the end of the collaboration in 1990. The Fjord series, designed by Stålhane with Lynd's handpainted borders, was produced from 1979 to 1988 and has remained among the more visually distinctive pieces to come from either designer. Working as a freelancer, she also accepted commissions from manufacturers in Germany and Turkey, including glassware work for the Turkish firm Paşabahçe, which accounts for the glass items attributed to her name on the secondary market.
Since the Rörstrand years, Lynd has continued working in Österlen, taking on occasional graphic design and illustration projects while returning to painting. Her connection to the Swedish landscape remained consistent across her output, functioning less as a decorative theme than as a primary source of observation.
At auction her tableware surfaces regularly across Swedish houses. The Birgitta service in hand-painted stoneware, a large Rörstrand set, has sold at around 2,400 SEK, and a Julia service of 73 pieces has achieved 2,050 EUR at a single session. Eden services from Rörstrand have gone at approximately 1,600 SEK, while Jazz champagne glasses attributed to her work for Paşabahçe have reached 1,600 EUR. Demand clusters around complete or near-complete services in good condition, with the hand-painted Rörstrand ranges consistently drawing more competitive bidding than the transfer-printed lines.