Claire Debril Bowls and Baskets

Great and unique shape carved malachite stone ashtray or vide poche. Imposing item, stunning color and pattern which makes it unique. Natural malachite sculpture. Some are called vide poche or ashtray dresser caddy...

Hand-carved in Italy during the 1900’s, this small marble shell basin would make a great vide-poche. A vide-poche (literally “empty pocket”) is a small sto...

Green and Yellow Le Sirenuse Ashtray Vide-Poche. Hand-painted vide-poche ashtray dish with two stylized sirens / mermaids holding a small yellow house inscribed Le Sirenuse, Positano...

Splendid Buccellati Hammered Silver Vide Poche / Tray Italy Late 20th Century Fully marked Buccellati 800 Made In Italy

Amazing round ashtray or vide-poche in granite effect ceramic and brass by the Italian designer Tommaso Barbi. Made in Italy in the 1970s. Tommaso Barbi's original label is s...

A black and yellow ceramic trinket tray, France, 1960s, with a bold and sculptural design. This piece is distinguished by its openwork, raised rim, formed by a repeating motif remini...

Walter Sullivan Roche Sculptural Ceramic Ashtray / Vide-Poche, c.1955.

An ashtray or vide poche made in Italy between the 50s and 60s in green onyx. The marble has been carefully sculpted into a hexagonal geometric shape, smoothed, ground and carved in ...

This vide-poche is made of porcelain. It is white in color, and was made in France in the 1970s and 80s. The sides have been gilded with gold leaf.

A beautiful Art Nouveau Gouda pottery ashtray. Wonderfully colorful floral hand painted design, from Holland. This well made decorative object can also be used as a key holder/vide poche. Signed Dalia Konin Klyk, Coedewaalem, Gouda, Holland and numbered on bottom. Measures: 4 3/4 in. diameter x 2 3/8 in. high Other interesting information about this form of pottery: There isn’t a factory called Gouda Pottery; the pottery is called that because the main factories were in Gouda. Gouda (pronounced ‘how-da’) is the generic term we use for all the pottery factories in Holland – all Dutch pottery other than Delftware, that is. The area around Gouda had clay to make pots, which is why most of the factories settled there. A lot of the clay also came from England. The Dutch started producing clay pipes...

French advertising ceramic ashtray or empty pocket for Cognac Monnet, France, circa 1970. Since its founding in 1838, Monnet has been one of Cognac's historic names. Its leaders hav...

Delightful square pocket tray or ashtray made in burgundy lacquered wood, shell and brass. This incredibly elegant object is attributed to Tommaso Barbi and was made in Italy during ...