Ernest Baptiste Leveille Vases

This remarkable acid-etched vase is the work of the famed Art Nouveau master Émile Gallé, one of the most highly regarded names in French glassmaking. The artist's love of nature is ...

An antique Italian Capodimonte floor vase offers pottery construction with applied roses, signed as photographed, c1900. Measures- 22.25''H x 10''W x 11''D. Catalogue Note: Ask abo...

A stylish Austrian Art Nouveau twin handled art pottery vase hand painted with floral designs and made at Old Moravian Pottery around 1906. The squat ...

This is a Czech Bohemian Gilt Glass Vase. It depicts a light cranberry color glass vase decorated with hand painted enamel large flowers and gilt scrolls...

A Pair of Boho Chic Mid-Century Modern handcrafted tall boho chic pencil reed bamboo floor vase in cone shape. Made in America. Great addition for ...

Beautiful iridescent green blown glass vase with gilt bronze dolphin base and gilt handle.

A Large Glass vase of Art Nouveau style with Enameled and Gilt Art Glass Vase in a frosted body formed a very elegant shape with subtle curved lines. Th...

This Tall 20th Century Celadon Vase is a graceful testament to the artistry of the 20th century. Crafted with meticulous detail, the celado...

Poppies, golden-accented in analagous colors of blue and orange, creep up their leafy green stalks which sag from the heavy weight of the flowers. Like tired heavy-lidded eyes, the poppies symbolize hypnos’ sleep-inducing effects. Dammouse’s somnific symbolism evokes an other-worldly dream-like state and acts as a vehicle to tap into the imagination. Much more than a pretty face, or a pretty vase, this is a sublime piece of art, and Dammouse makes clear the influence of Braquemond and others by employing this Symbolist style. Beaudelaire’s credo that “Beauty must contain the absolute and the particular, the eternal and the transitory” aptly applies. Created while both Chaplet and Edouard Dammouse were employed by Haviland & Co. at its Paris location, this vase is a prime example of Chaplet’s early creative output of matte brown stoneware. Both artists demonstrate a strong link and affinity for Japonisme in the vase’s traditional form and in the painterly approach Dammouse brings to the enamel glaze. His treatment of enhancing the floral decoration with gold detailing calls to mind Kintsugi aesthetic principles. Affixed to the vase’s underside is its original label indicating it was sold at the chic A la Paix, a Parisian gallery located on the prestigious Avenue de l’Opera which opened in 1891, specializing in glass and ceramic objects of art. Ernest Chaplet (1835-1907) Not only was Chaplet France’s premier studio ceramist, the example he set of personally creating a ceramic object from the conceptual phase through modeling, firing and glazing - constantly reaching for new and innovative modes of expression and technique - elevated the notion of a ceramist from artisan to Artist. While Director of Production for Haviland & Co., Chaplet expanded their focus from porcelain into stoneware production and developed the barbotine method of painting earthenware with liquid clay as well as conducted extensive research in glaze techniques. He was awarded a Gold Medal in 1889 at Paris’ l’Exposition Universelle for his revolutionary sang de boeuf glaze. That same year, Chaplet opened his own atelier in Choisy-le-Roi where he continued to produce avant-garde stoneware and support younger talent. Edouard Dammouse (1850-1903) Trained as a painter, Paris born Edouard Dammouse studied under Felix Bracquemond, Ernest Chaplet’s predecessor at Haviland & Co.‘s Auteuil studio. Edouard followed his brother, Albert, and Chaplet to Haviland’s Paris...

An antique Chinese vase offers Cloissone enameled design in garden theme with flowers throughout, seated on bronze base, c1900. Measures- Vase 12.5''H; B...

Large baluster vase on a separate stand, bulbous walls widening at the top towards the opening, colorless glass with flaky white and yellowish, yellow-orange, in the stand area with dark brown-violet powder inclusions, with etched and painted in colored enamel Bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) decor, satin surface in the background, base and bottom smoothly polished and covered with green enamel, relief signature 'DAUM NANCY' with a Cross of Lorraine on the wall between the plants. Technique: Handmade cameo glass Glass overlaid with several layers, with high-cut worked out motifs. Since the middle of the 19th century, the design has also been done by etching. Cameo glass vessels...

An early 20th century French ceramic and bronze vase by Jean Baptiste Massier. Impressed maker’s mark to underside.