Early 20th Century Vases

Roseville Early Velmoss Trial Glaze 1916 Vintage Art Pottery Ceramic Vase 135-10 Very rare trial glaze vase with high glaze blue/purple leaves and a green background. Shows well with...

A very fine late 19th Century French cameo glass vase decorated with raised deep burgundy flowers against a warm orange field. Exhibiting excellent detail and colour, signed Galle in...

Emile Gallé, Nancy, Art Nouveau Cameo Vase with Hydrangeas - France ca. 1904. Polychrome overlaid decoration with hydrangeas on a milky and pink background, marked Gallé with a star,...

The firm, JOHANN LOETZ WITWE, was a producer of decorative glass located in a Southern Bohemian town which is today known as Kláštersky Milyn in the Czech Republic. Under various own...

This well executed antique silver overlay vase is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from the United States and date to approximately 192...

Unusual Art-Deco vase by d'Argyl, Paris, circa 1928. Pressed moulded and blown smoked glass in ochre tones, with floral decoration in relief. Signed under the bowl. D'Argyl is in ...

This antique vase is unsigned, but made by the Loetz glass factory of the Czech Replublic in approximately 1900 in the period Art Nouveau style. The vase is done in the gold irridesc...

Art Deco sterling silver trumpet vase. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York, ca 1915. Tall and narrow cone with flared rim and ribbed base knop on round and stepped foot. Fully marked i...

Rookwood 1920 Vintage Art Pottery Blue Vellum Ceramic Floor Vase 907A (Epply) Large and stunning floor vase decorated with a beautiful and colorful floral design that goes around the...

A diminutive and expertly painted cabinet vase with hand painted portrait of Queen Louise, signed Wagner. The iridescent blue Background with raised hand gilt decoration with sunflo...

Antique Japanese Meiji Satsuma Porcelain Vase, Garden Scene & Pheasant, C1910 Measures- 6.25''H x 3''W x 3''D

A dark yellow vase designed by Eva Jancke-Björk at Bo Fajans in Gefle in the 1940s. The vase is 17 cm high and in excellent condition.

Enhance your decor with the timeless elegance of this vintage amber blown glass vase from the early 20th century. Crafted by an unknown Spanish manufacturer, this vase retains its or...

Enhance your decor with the timeless elegance of this vintage amber blown glass vase from the early 20th century. Crafted by an unknown Spanish manufacturer, this vase retains its or...

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This large 14" tall, hand blown crystal vase was a custom order for someone special! Monogrammed and signed on the base, it is all-over decorated with copper wheel engraved ivy ...

Teco Advance Terra Cotta Chicago Vintage Arts And Crafts Pottery Framed Tile Rare and stunning arts and crafts tile with superior color and composition. Excellent original condition...

A vase, Johann Lötz Witwe, Klostermühle, c. 1900 Decoration: Candia mimoza; clear glass with opaque silver-yellow powder melts, craquellé; iridescent...

A fine example of Hand Hammered Russian Copper Retailed by The Stickley Brothers at the turn of the century. Original Patina and Riveted Details Shown in the line drawings in the per...

This well executed antique silver overlay vase is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from the United States and date to approximately 192...

An art nouveau vase in ceramics designed by Josef Ekberg at Gustavsberg in 1909, this vase is from the classic Sgrafitto-serie. The vase is 25 cm (10") high and in excellent conditio...

Elevate your decor with the exceptional beauty of this vintage blown glass vase from the early 20th century. Created by an unknown Spanish manufacturer circa 1940, this vase remains ...

A light blue vase designed by Eva Jancke-Björk at Bo Fajans in Gefle in the 1940s with a lovely relief decor of shells and seaweed. The vase is 18 cm high and in excellent condition.

Alexandre Bigot French Vintage Art Nouveau Pottery Brown And Gray Ceramic Vase Rare and stunning Alexandre Bigot French art nouveau vase with a stunning flowing iridescent luster gla...

Antique Millefiori Vase with Handles, Fratelli Toso Murano ca. 1910 A small millefiori murrine glass vase in an unusual rare shape with two handles. Manufactured by Vetreria Fratelli Toso, Murano around 1910. Made of polychrome murrines (purple, green, red and white) which were melted together. Surface with acid etched matte finish. The vase is an authentic example of early 20th century Murano art glass. It was part of a large Fratelli Toso glass collection with over 600 pieces - collected since the 1970s. Fratello Toso was one of the leading art glass manufacturers of Murano in the 20th century. In the early 1900's Fratelli Toso started to produce glasses in murrine technique. Murrine and Millefiori glasses remained a major product field of Fratelli Toso. In 1912 a very successful series of liberty inspired art glasses, designed by Hans Stoltenberg Lerche...

An unusual vintage Japanese studio pottery vase decorated with stylized insects and signed to base. The bulbous stoneware vase stands on a flat unglazed base and is decorated in brow...

This large and rare antique vase was created by Japanese master artist Ando Jubei (1876-1956) during the Meiji period. The sterling silver body was covered with cloisonné enamel and ...

Elevate your decor with the exceptional beauty of this vintage blown glass vase from the early 20th century. Created by an unknown Spanish manufacturer circa 1940, this vase remains ...

Heading : Murano glass vase Date : c1925 Origin : Murano Bowl Features : Pink 'a macchie' speckled and eventurine conical glass with applied reeded handles. Conical folded foot Marks...

Elevate your decor with the exceptional beauty of this vintage blown glass vase from the early 20th century. Created by an unknown Spanish manufacturer circa 1940, this vase remains ...

Small baluster vase, flush round stand, bulbous body with attached funnel-shaped neck, colorless glass with flaky color powder enamels in white and yellow, in lower part in red, over...

Art Nouveau Baccarat crystal vase with ormolu base French, c. 1905 Height 32cm, diameter 14cm This stunning Baccarat glass vase is accompanied by an intriguing ormolu base. The crys...

Beautiful pewter jar by Harald Linder, with a biblical motif. On the sides, reliefs depict Eve, Adam, a tree and a snake. Lovely etched decor and a leaf ...

Antique Victorian Spelter & Marble Figural Mermaid Centerpiece Bowl Vase Epergne. Item features ornate detailed mermaids figures, black marble plinth, pinkish purple vase insert, sub...

Opalescent pressed moulded glass. Created in 1919 and discontinued in 1937 Bibliography: Felix Marcilhac, "René Lalique 1860-1945", Les Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, N °876 P.410

This wonderful Art Deco vase is a rare piece by French ceramics artist Gilbert Méténier (France, 1844 - 1922). The vase is well sized, featuring two interesting handles smoothly ari...

Mauser sterling silver bud vase in Art Nouveau style from the late 19th or early 20th century, beautifully adorned with pierced and floral motifs. It measures 9'' in height by 3 1/3'...

LALIQUE, NEMOURS cup in molded-pressed Crystal 2.1 Kg Enamelled with 240 points of hand-applied black enamel in reference to the poppy flower. Very good condition   

Antique Japanese Meiji Period Bronze Vase - Exquisite Crane Depiction! This exceptional bronze vase from the Meiji period features a stunning depiction of cranes, symbolizing longev...

Art Nouveau Pewter Vase, Early 20th Century, France. This beautiful Art Nouveau period conical vase on 4 leaf-like feet features tall, flowering plant-shaped elongated handles and en...

Antique Awaji pottery Art Nouveau form vase with four willowy handles emanating from a squared shoulder in deep green glaze, circa 1910. Measures: 14 1/2" high, 7 1/2" diameter. Dri...

Wonderful collection of six small antique Japanese imari vases having a wonderful collection of various antique Japanese imari vases, hand painted in wonderful red, blue and white co...

Standing tall and stately, we are loving this fantastic antique Art Deco style silver plated display trophy. 6.75" Dia. x 17" H

René Lalique: "Oranges" Frosted enamelled glass vase René Lalique, model presented in 1926. Moulded white blown glass with black enamel. Molded in medium relief of succulent oranges...

Large vase or pot holder Paul Milet (1870-1950) for the Sèvres Manufacture with stylized black peacock decoration. Signed underneath "Milet, Sèvres, Hand Decor, "

Striking Art Deco sgraffito ceramic vase by Josef Ekberg for Gustavsberg. Layers consist of pale blue ground and mid blue palm leaf decoration Signed Ekberg and dated 1911 Height 8 inch, Width 5.5 inch A unique example of Ekberg's craftsmanship In especially good condition. Area of the lightest of crazing, typical of Ekberg sgraffito...

A sumptuous art nouveau French cameo lake landscape acid etched cameo vase with applied handles. Sunrise or sunset with a yellow orange background with engraved trees, bushes and mou...

An art nouveau vase in ceramics designed by Josef Ekberg at Gustavsberg in 1915, this vase is from the classic Sgrafitto-serie. The vase is 28 cm (11.2") high and in excellent condit...

Dinanderie Vase by French artist Jean Dunand..This is a rare and unusual vase with a combination of abstract floral and geometric images. The multi-layer patina gives this vase a ver...

An art nouveau vase in ceramics designed by Josef Ekberg at Gustavsberg in 1920, this vase is from the classic Sgrafitto-serie. The vase is 23.5 cm (9.4") high and in excellent condi...

BOHEMIAN FLUX: A VASE, kuk Fachschule für Keramik und Verwandte Kunstgewerbe, Turn-Teplitz, c. 1905; the ceramic vase with a dark underglaze ground has a matte orange peel overglaze in ochre, apricot, lapis and celadon; the shape of the vase resembles a Japanese Saki bottle with the addition of four long and slender handles at the top third; incised before firing on the base in script lettering,“P.W.”, stamped before firing with the Fachschule mark and 73, and marked “G2.” in black ink; the vase measures: 13” high. Flux- continuous moving, a glazing method, fusion- the artist who produced this remarkable vase has presented a profoundly poetic and technical meditation on this subject. Moving way beyond the pursuit of creating only functional objects, the student ceramists at Fachschule Teplitz had ingrained in them the Europeans’ fascination for Japanese objects “from the floating world” and the design aesthetic known as Japonisme. Truly modern interpretations of Japonisme had begun to evolve into an internalizing of the aesthetic principles and a shift away from imitation of Japanese style applied to a Western format. This vase is noteworthy in that it illustrates this important Modernist shift in European ceramics. The elements of the saki bottle can be divided into three key components which taken as a whole create a rather feminine line. In keeping with this approach, the Fachschule student presents a slender bare neck, like décolletage, which flares ever slightly and then narrows to a high waist before voluptuously widening down and terminating gracefully to a round base. The ceramist gives special emphasis to pleasing proportions and the complementary relationship to the number 3; the measurement at the widest section of the vase equals the same distance from that point up to where the bottoms of the handles join to the body of the vase as well as the full arms’ length. Instead of inscribing the vase with Japanese calligraphy denoting a saki shop, the student takes a radically modern approach by attaching the vase with four handles. And yet, this act is every bit a form of written identification. The arms are the embodiment of the idea of flux in that they are a substance applied to a surface by the welding together to promote their union. The handles serve a new and surprising function. They are carriers of a concept. Fluidity- flux -can be created when an artist joins disparate elements into a harmonious whole. Flux is also a substance used to promote the fusion of minerals and metals and a term describing ceramic glazing. The presence of silica in glazes creates a glassy finish when fired at high temperatures. Matte glazes result from the presence of crystals under the surface and the balance between silica, flux and alumina in the glaze materials. By deliberately under-firing this vase and playing with a combination of additives forming the flux glaze, the end result appears matte and textured. The orange peel quality and alluring color palette are transformative. The effect evokes a waterfall or another continuous moving flow of water like a stream - in flux. So not only does this artist take a Meiji Period saki bottle and the aesthetic tenets of Japonisme as the formal and theoretical points of departure, the artist infuses the work with the symbolism of skill itself where artistic mastery as the embodiment of flux becomes the subject to ponder. As a fully realized and beautifully rendered piece, the vase attests to the artistic prowess of its creator. No longer a mere student working in the shadows of the teacher and no longer simply imitating or replicating past styles, this emerging artist shows the complete fluid transfer from student to master ceramist. Seen in this light, the vase represents a significant and pivotal achievement in Modern European ceramic ware. Fachschule für Keramik und Verwandte Kunstgewerbe (the Imperial School for Ceramics and Associated Applied Arts, 1875-1917) was a powerhouse of the ceramics industry. Located in the Turn-Teplitz region of Bohemia near the German border of what is today The Czech Republic, this was Europe’s largest pottery center in the first part of the 20th century. The school played an integral role in the center’s internationally regarded success as it provided the foundation of sourcing and training new talent for noted local manufacturers such as Amphora. It was at the Fachschule that master artists from these local ceramics houses enjoyed teaching and lecturing posts, and in true synergistic spirit, the big ceramics...

Please Note - Priced Per Item (2 vases are available). Beautiful antique Murano hand blown white ribbons and blue accents Italian art glass "soliflore" flower vase. The vase has a fl...

Legras operated in the Paris suburbs at both Pantin and St Denis. This post war vase emulates acid etched cameo. The outer layer is clear glass. The decorative band is cut into the c...

An art nouveau vase in ceramics designed by Josef Ekberg at Gustavsberg in 1919, this vase is from the classic Sgrafitto-serie. The vase is 27.5 cm (11") high and in excellent condit...

An art nouveau vase in ceramics designed by Josef Ekberg at Gustavsberg in 1918, this vase is from the classic Sgrafitto-serie. The vase is 30.5 cm (12.2") high and in excellent cond...

An art nouveau vase in ceramics designed by Josef Ekberg at Gustavsberg in 1920, this vase is from the classic Sgrafitto-serie. The vase is 28 cm (11.2") high and in excellent condit...

Rene Lalique (1860-1945). Vase "Perruches" in red tinted moulded-pressed glass. Signed. Created in 1919. Size: H 26 cm. Vase having been originally pierced for electricity and recor...

A large and impressive hand painted vase and cover from the re known studio of Carlton England. This Chinoiserie design features a variation of the Willow on a burnt orange backgroun...