Provenance: European private collection.

Literature: Axel Salto: “Den spirende stil”, ill. p. 83.

Literature “Axel Salto - Master of Stoneware”, CLAY - Keramikmuseum Danmark, ill. p. 140 and in model register fig. 220, (model no. 20715), p. 177.

In the Danish periodical “Klingen” from 1942, Axel Salto writes: “I once found in my garden a spider web down between the Raspberry bushes. It was a meter-wide laced sail, which swayed in the rough September morning, heavy with dew. When the soft wind grabbed hold of the web, a rainbow-coloured fire ran across it, as if it was filtering the first rays of the morning sun, and the spider came rushing, the shrivelled tiny creature, to see if there was anything to do. This diamond-covered fly trap, so simple and naturally formed, so fragile and undaunted, seemed to me to be perfection incarnate, a bold statement in an insignificant darkness of dawn, of nature’s extravagance. I do not recall that any artwork has provided as much resonance in my mind. This web was a demonic thing”.