Celadon glaze with ashing & shells. Mounted in a wooden base.

From Svend's final exhibition.

Excerpt from Svend's introduction to his Final Exhibiton catalogue.

'The more sculptural forms are based on stone age axes from both Denmark and Britain. When I was 7 and my family was on home leave from Africa, my sister and I stayed with two elderly unmarried female cousins of my father. One had been a physiotherapist to Christian the 10th , the other a sculptress who, as a young woman, had posed in all her glory as Gefion for the Gefion Fountain near Langelinje in Copenhagen. Their house was full of treasures , including a complete human skeleton whose cranium I was allowed to keep by my bed, provided it was  kept hidden in a brown paper bag during daylight hours so as not  to frighten the maid. They also had a fine collection of stone age implements unearthed by their amateur archaeologist father. When we left to return to Africa they gave me ten of those tools, the most precious of which was a large polished flint axe. They are my most prized possessions.'