Nils Thorsson Ashtrays

Midcentury Vallauris Bowl or Ashtray, Glazed Ceramic Beautiful fat lava glazed ceramic ashtray in amber, white and brown colors. Manufactured by Vallaur...

Arne Bang for Royal Copenhagen, ribbed ceramic bowl, 1940s. An extraordinary example of Arne Bang's aesthetics, this ribbed stoneware bowl is the echelon of the Danish designer's wo...

Jorden or Earth by Carl Harry Stålhane for Designhuset. With an abstract design in shades of brown with a textured center over a creamy glaze and the outside with a partial glazing of a gun metal charcoal over a red-brown brick glaze. Named Jorden or Earth it is fully signed Carl Harry Stalhane...

Danish mid-century Baca Faience plate by Nils Thorsson for Royal Copenhagen Small mid-century plate from the Baca series by Nils Thorsson for Royal Copenhagen. This highly detail...

Unique mid-century bowl by Andre Freymond of Switzerland. Beautiful fish motif in effervescent colors. Freymond was known for making unique pieces, one-offs, never to be repeated, su...

A "Baca" vase by Nils Thorsson for Royal Copenhagen. Marked 719/3259 and signed accordingly.

Yellow ashtray by Angelo Mangiarotti Excellent condition.

A novelty in-/outdoor ashtray in the shape of a ships porthole. It is made from solid brass that has patinated over the years. Made in Scandinavia duri...

Large midcentury bowl from the Baca series by Nils Thorsson for Aluminia This highly detailed ceramic/faience bowl is part of Aluminia's / Royal Copenhagen's BACA series, designed b...

A good quality stylish Danish Royal Copenhagen Aluminia Faience glazed bowl in the Baca design with fish by renowned Scandinavian ceramic artist and designer Nils Johan Thorvald Thor...

Nils Thorsson and Johanne Gerber for Aluminia, Royal Copenhagen. A "Baca" vase and dish decorated with birds and fish. Patterned glaze in the sand and light brown shades. 1970s. ...

Amazing blue glazed (Rimini Blu) ceramic ashtray design by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi. Handcrafted in Italy with hand carved geometric design and in a glazed vibrant turquoise and cobalt blue, Italy, 1950s-1960s. Marked Italy at the back. Measures: 15 cm W x 15 cm D x 3 cm H ( 5,90 in W x5,90 in D x 1,18 in H ) About Bitossi (Manufacturer) Like a Fellini movie, the ceramics of this famed Italian company embody a creative spectrum that ranges from the playful and earthy to the high-minded and provocative. Based in Florence, Bitossi Ceramiche draws on craft traditions that date back to the 1500s. These find expression in the artisanal vases and animal figures by the firm’s longtime art director Aldo Londi, as well as the colorful, totemic vessels designed by the high priest of postmodernism, Ettore Sottsass. The company was incorporated by Guido Bitossi in 1921, though the family began making art pottery in the mid-19th century. In the 1930s, Londi came aboard, bringing with him a mindset that respected time-honored craft, yet looked also to the future. On the one hand, Londi’s perspective fostered the making of Bitossi’s popular whimsical animal figures, hand-shaped and -carved and finished in a rich azure glaze known as “Rimini Blue.” But with his other hand, Londi reached out to thoughtful, experimental designers such as Sottsass. Starting in the 1950s, some 20 years before he founded the Memphis Postmodern design...