20th Century Urns

Large Royal Copenhagen ceramic jar in coral and white (craquelure) crackle glaze and detailed in gold. Made in Denmark, circa 1940s. Measures: Height 10", width 7.5".

Antique pair of water pitchers or jugs handcrafted with copper, hammered, riveted, and plated with a translucent silver finish, giving them an acquired rustic quality only time and u...

Pair of beautifully made, hand painted, gray-ground, craqueleur-glazed urns featuring incised clay bands and sculpted, willow-branch armatures.

A tall pair of terracotta antique Mediterranean olive jars hand painted in the Deco style with a handsome male figure, horse and tropical foliage. Mea...

Of cylindrical form and vibrantly painted in turquoise, yellow and maroon with blue and green accents, depicting flowers and vine-forms.  

Striking pair of hand painted and glazed urns with gilt bronze mounts. Marked "Made in France" on the base of each.

American gilded age period pair of Tiffany urns made in heavy cast gilt bronze. This rare pair was made in the Tiffany Studios in New York City during the ...

Large pair of Moroccan brown and green ceramic urns with lid, handcrafted in Fez Morocco, the green ceramic is hand-etched with Arabic writing calligraphy. This kind of Art Writing looks calligraphic is called Lettrism, it is a form of art that uses letters that are not supposed to mean anything, just put together as Decorative Art. It is just about the beauty of the free writing. Large vintage ceramic jars...

German Jugendstil pair of vases created by Walter Scherf & Co., circa 1900. The pair is made of repousse metal with added sculpted handles ending in bi...

Outdoor Continental Neo-classical (19/20th Cent) veined marble urn on square base

Overscale antique Sèvres Porcelain urn vases in cobalt blue with gilt accents Offered for sale is a striking pair of overscale cobalt blue handled Sèvres Porcelain urn vases with ...

A pair of cast iron urns by Näfveqvarns Bruk. Model "Amor", Sweden, early 20th century. Diam: 12.2", with arms: 15.4"; H- 8.7".

German Jugendstil period amphora in neoclassical revival style, made in brass, repoussé inside and outside, with added bronze handles, legs, figures and sculpted bronze plaques, unsi...

Two beautiful large ceramic vases. Measures: Height 51 cm.

A big stoneware pot by Antoine de Vinck. Artist monogram under the base, circa 1980. Perfect original conditions.

Wonderful tall light blue urn by Cenedese Vetri of Murano, Italy. A fun, funky and bright way to add a touch of bold colour / color to your interior - i...

Pair of bronze urns cast using the lost wax technique, with lid and handles, decorated with strings of flower garlands.

Pair of Moroccan dark brown ceramic urns with lid from Fez Morocco. Chiseled and hand-carved calligraphy designs ornate the urns in the Ottoman style. Very decorative handmade Mooris...

An early 20th century hexagonal storage canister hand-hammered on distressed tin from India. This canister adopts an hexagonal shape with a curving b...

Charming pair of diminutive Chinese pewter lidded urns or vases featuring a turned finish with bell finials. Great for decoration, storage, or both. Minor...

Aqua blue hand-crafted pair of large Moroccan ceramic urns with lid. Measures: large 3'. Hand-made Moroccan Moorish style turquoise ceramic jar...

Pair of very decorative chocalate brown and green jade handcrafted Moroccan ceramic vases with handles from Fez. Hand-graved and chased with green Arabic alphabet writing calligraphy...

Stunning pair of extra large signed ceramic urns dripped in a glaze of dark umber and white over dense terracotta forms. Large in scale, these make a great statement and are very rar...

Large pair of 20th century urn form lidded cassolettes in onyx and bronze in the French Louis XVI taste (The lids are affixed and not removable). The pair features the most dramatic ...

Very nice giant Bishop chess piece. Made of several woods following a pattern. The top comes off, and it has something like an urn, maybe a secret hidden place. Chess is a two-pla...

Alabaster vase in the style Angelo Mangiarotti, With Corails decoration. This vase is in the tradition of some vases done by Ettore Sottsass.

Beautiful French marble urn, circa 1960, provenance: Paris, France.

Large green Moorish ceramic Urns chiseled with Arabic calligraphy poetry writing. Handcrafted vases from Fez Morocco etched with Arabic calligraphy. This kind of Art Writing looks ca...

Italian neoclassical style pair of hand-carved and hand polished rock crystal and gilt bronze tazzas, mid-20th century. Base measurement is 4.25 inches x 4.25 inches.

Large Moroccan green ceramic urns with lid chiseled with Arabic Calligraphy poetry writing. Handcrafted in Fez Morocco, etched green ceramic on brown background. This kind of Art Wri...

Pair of vibrant, early 20th century, hand painted and parcel gilt, lobed Imari jars with Foo dog embellished lids.

Monumental four-piece studio pottery Fountain, manner of Raymor, Italy. Wonderful scale and proportion. Glazed ceramic, incised geometric designs, Versatile: can be separated and used as two jardiniers...

Possibly unique with its enormous 32" height and spare modern glyph glaze decoration. Attributed to ceramicist Aldo Londi. Signed and labeled to underside. Distributed by Raymor.

This antique teak wood bowl was originally used to pound rice. We added the shell inlay. This bowl was sourced in the spirit of wabi-sabi, a Japanese philosophy that beauty can be f...

Two, hand-painted, Republic period, parcel-gilt, lidded urns made for the U.K. market. Both pieces feature a central medallion of arms containing a warrior on horseback. Each medalli...

Rhododendron pattern.

Pair of Moroccan green and brown ceramic urns with lid and handles. Great Moorish style handcrafted and chiselled decorative ceramic urns etched with Arabic calligraphy poetry writin...

A marvelous and important example of William Hentschel's artistry at the famed Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati, this large, two-handled urn depicts stylized leaf forms in a dark brown...

Very chic English Mid-Century urns of great scale and proportions.

Mid-century Etruscan-style urn with painted scenes along the Amalfi coast with mythological figures on reverse. Italy, circa 1940. Dimension: 4.75" base diameter x 8.5" ha...

An organic and Brutalist style vase with Medallion motif on front and verso. Bernard Rooke (born 1938) is a British artist and studio potter. Rooke has exhibited his "Brutalist" ceramics and painting both in the UK and abroad with work in many collections both public and private including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Nuffield Foundation, Röhsska Museum in Sweden and the Trondheim Kunstmuseum in Norway. Bernard Rooke attended Ipswich School of Art studying painting and lithography before going on to study at Goldsmiths College of Art. It was while studying here that he decided to take up pottery. Although unfamiliar with this craft and tradition, he found that working with clay provided new opportunities for freedom of interpretation and creativity. In 1960 Rooke set up his first pottery in Forest Hill in South London along with Alan Wallwork. It was a very small room with enough space for a small electric kiln. He was initially using mainly hand building, coiling, blocking and slabbing techniques. While researching ideas, he was supporting himself by part-time lecturing at London University, Goldsmiths College and St Mary's College. In addition, Rooke's membership of 'The Craftsman Potters' Association' enabled him to show his work in a shop in Carnaby Street in London. In 1967, both the need for a larger working space and becoming disillusioned with living in London spurred Rooke into moving out of the city and to an old mill building in Swilland in Suffolk. Rooke wanted to widen the range of work so as to become more commercial. With the birth of his son, Aaron, and much needed work to be done on the mill, it was important to be able to make a living. In 1968, the Grand Metropolitan Hotel commissioned Rooke to make 120 standard lamps, 120 table lamps as well as a 24 foot long ceramic mural and another 9 foot high, which incorporated interior lighting. The money from the commission helped to pay for much needed restoration work on the mill. By the 1970s, a gallery space was opened in the windmill and run by Susan Rooke, Bernard's wife, selling work to locals and tourists as well as to American airmen based nearby. The vision for Mill Gallery was beginning to develop and alongside this a reputation was building bringing in a good source of income. Sons Aaron and Felix were becoming more involved with the running of the pottery, giving Bernard more time to develop new ideas and designs and more time to continue with his painting. In 2004, the Rooke family decided not to sell to the public through the gallery anymore and close the pottery to concentrate more on painting and printmaking. In 2017 Bernard's lighting was featured in the Exhibition: “Glass, Light, Paint & Clay” at the Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibition featured four artists: Bernard Rooke, John Maltby...

A mid-20th century bronze urn. Dimensions: H 21cm W 15.5cm D 10cm Origin: English Date: Circa 1940 Item Number: 1903242

Remarkable vintage pitcher handcrafted with silver plate on hammered copper in a one of a kind object of art featuring a stone philodendron leaf handle. Signed Emilia Castillo on the...

A fantastic pair of artisan made ceramic lidded jars fired in a pink crackle glaze finish by the California pottery company Jaru.

Neat stoneware vase by Gunnar Nylund, in a drop form. Glazed eggshell white over a subtle graphic pattern. Gunnar Nylund was one of the most influential ceramicists and designers of the Swedish mid-century period. He was Rörstrand’s creative leader from 1931 until 1949 and as such propelled the artistic work at the factory and served as mentor to younger artists, among them Carl-Harry Stålhane and Hertha Bengtsson. Nylund was a dedicated functionalist, who brought ideas of democratizing stoneware and creating beautiful, qualitative and affordable everyday items for the people to Rörstand in the mid-1920s. The factory had at the time lost its former leading market position, but Nylund’s efforts gave it a great reboot. He designed ceramic kitchenware...

An elegant Japanese cast and lacquered bronze incense burner, koro, topped with a mythical kirin, Taisho Period, circa 1920, Japan. The tall koro of tripod form, with three elegant legs with outward curved feet resting on an integral circular base. The compressed body cast with a delightful scene of a pair of birds roosting on branches of flowering plum. A pair of monster masks adorn the sides. Rising from the top of their heads are a dramatic pair of horns, joined at the top, in the form of a Buddhist mandorla. The monster mask theme continues below, with their tongues forming the legs. The pierced cover of the koro features a fantastic kirin (qilin in Chinese), a mythical chimeric animal with the head of horned dragon, body of a deer, and legs and hooves of a horse. Despite its ferocious appearance, the kirin is a benevolent animal, whose appearance foretells the arrival or passing of a great sage or ruler. The bronze well...

This monumental signed studio pot is truly something to behold. Its variegated tawny and sand colored glaze swirl together to create a one-of-a-kind work of...

A fine and impressive pair of knife urns by the custom cabinet maker W.K. Cowan of Chicago. Hand crafted to his exacting standards this pair feature...

A blue, glazed stoneware urn designed and produced by Höganäs Keramik, Sweden, c. 1940s.  

Astonishing Seguso Vetri d'Arte white Murano glass handled vase. This piece was designed with a stunning "scavo" effect on the glass and on the metal stand. This piece is marvellous as it is a Murano glass vase with the shape and the appearance of an ancient Roman transport amphora. This is evident from the two handles on top, the opaque white, the wide opening and the pointed bottom. This iconic piece is attributed to Flavio Poli, who has been the artistic director of Seguso Vetri d'Arte in Murano from 1937-1963. The "scavo" effect is translated into excavation glass...

Mid 20th century Attica terra cotta kalyx-kraters featuring gods and goddesses in early Classical Greek scenes. These two handle bowls were made for...

Pair of palace size Sevres "Labors of cupid" ormolu and cobalt urns France, 20th century A magnificent pair of palace-sized Sevres "Labors of Cupid" ormolu...

Pair Antique French "Art Nouveau" porcelain urns Made by Sevres with Enamel Colorations, Circa 1910-1920.

Rare "Arlecchino" series polychrome ceramic vase, 1950s, deruta production based on a design by Nino strada in the classic geometric pattern It measures 33 cm in height, in very g...

Magnificent pair of Neo-classical style hand-carved and hand-polished rock crystal covered vases. Crowned with ormolu pineapple finials. The largest we have ever seen in our 40 year...

Beautiful and large, 2-handled pot archaic style terracotta pot. Wonderful patina and coloration throughout.

Pair of great 20th century Chinese vases. Glazed and hand painted ceramic objects with golden decorations of beautiful quality and important me...

Unique large pair of neoclassical style hand carved and hand-polished rock crystal vases. The inside of the vases were masterfully carved out. Measures: H. 14" x D. 7".