Inger Waage

Inger Waage (5 February 1923 – 16 December 1995), was an industrial ceramist at the Norwegian producer of earthenware, Stavangerflint AS.

In 1943 she was accepted as a student at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in Oslo to study ceramics for three years.

By 1955 her works were recognised by the market to such a degree that the company had to expand the production capacity by establishing an I.W department, with up to ten assistant artists to cope with the orders of hand painted ceramic objects from the UK, US and other countries.

Inger Waage's decorative design for tableware became an important part of her work and of the collection of Stavangerflint.

Souvenirs designed by Inger Waage are nearly always signed and are easily recognised by her drawing style.