Quimper Faience Pottery Vases

A unique and beautiful faience jug attributed to French ceramicist Emile Tessier. One of a series in our inventory, this vase not only has a beautiful form, but it features hand-scu...

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 elegant and colorful antique cachepot was sculpted in Brittany, France, circa 1960. The uniquely oblong shaped planter with double- bagpipe handl...

These elegant antique Majolica vases were crafted in France, circa 1870. Attributed to the French artist Thomas Sergent (1830-1890), each tall vessel dressed with carved woman figure handles, stands on a round base and features high relief medallions of love birds on branches on both sides. The colorful...

Decorate a dining room table or a mantel with this large antique jardinière; crafted in Normandy, circa 1860, the oblong planter stands on scrolled feet...

Decorate a shelf or console table with this elegant pair of antique vases with sailboat motifs. Crafted in Holland circa 1890, the round vases have a shell shape form with a wide rim...

Decorate a shelf or console table with this elegant pair of antique Delft vases with cattle motifs. Crafted in Holland circa 1880, the round vases ...

This antique majolica planter was sculpted in Montigny sur Loing, France, circa 1860. Tall and oval in shape, the ceramic jardinière stands on a flat rectangular base; it features colorful hand painted floral motifs in high relief on a brown background. The elegant barbotine vase is in excellent condition with rich patinated colors in the pale green, yellow, beige and pink palette. Impressionist ceramics term generally applies to "paint the slip" or "batch gouache". At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the towns of Montigny-sur-Loing and Marlotte are many artists living places like Jean-Baptiste Corot, Eugène Thirion (1839-1910), Adrien Schulz (1851-1931), Numa Gillet (1868-1940) and Lucien Cahen-Michel (1888-1980), all attracted by the quality of the landscape and the light. When Eugene Schopin founded in 1872 a ceramics factory, he worked with the painters to create a range of designs inspired by Impressionism and decorated according to new public demands. Several ceramic factories will develop around this Impressionist movement. The most famous, such as Georges Delvaux (1834-1909), Albert Boué (1862-1918) and Charles Alphonse Petit (1862-1927), will produce until 1922. Other manufacturers, such as Theodore Lefront...

Pottery from Morocco. Inspired by Swedish midcentury pottery like Stig Lindberg. Designed and made by a local artist in Rabat.

19th Century French Hand-Painted Faience Vases Signed set of 2

Faience de Gien Art Deco period "Orchidee" or Orchid vase, with tapering square neck above a polyhedral base, the sides decorated in polychrome enamel ...

19th century hand painted Cantonese vase in the Famille Rose style. The baluster-shaped body with brightly painted panels depicts interior sc...