Brazil Modernist Vases and Vessels

Copper and wood fruit bowl, Modern styled inspired with geometry than enhances raw excepcional and rare natural material and textures, imbuia and copper - By Brazilian Designer Maker Atelier BAM Design of São Paulo. The modern design style is one of the most influential movements in contemporary Brazilian design. Among the main names of modernist designers are Lina Bo Bardi, Vilanova Artigas, Oscar Niemeyer, and a few others; giving a legacy maintained by contemporary architects like Isay Weinfeld...

Vintage Flower pottery vase with white glazed vertical lines divide the vase in chocolate brown surfaces a beautiful piece of decorative art. signed.

Sculptural and organic ceramic modernist Ikebana vase. This vintage piece exudes organic design and beauty that is visually intriguing. Created with almost brutalist intent, this pi...

A number of colored rectangles on perpendicular incised white lines over a black glossy glaze background defines this Mid-Century Modern vase from Üebelacker-Keramik also known as ...

Large ceramic vase from Danish Søholm Stentøj, produced on the island of Bornholm in the 1960s. Rich glazing and decorative striped ornamentation. W...

A fantastic early work (circa early 1950s) by Master Greek-American potter Peter Voulkos. Signed on base with incised signature by Voulkos. Voulkos is widely considered to be the most important and impactful ceramists of the modern era. He won the Rodin Museum prize at the first Paris Biennale in 1959 and was the winner of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1984. Voulkos received the College Art Association’s Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1997. He was made an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 2001. He also received six honorary. Doctorate degrees as well as three National Endowment for the Arts awards. His work can be found in many prominent collections and museums including: Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Nagoya, Japan Albany Mall, Albany, New York American Museum of Ceramic Art...

Beautiful and vivid light blue vintage Mid-Century Modern vase from the 1960s. Distinct slim and precise white stripes on light blue base with glazed interior in black and green arou...

Hand-painted Swedish midcentury modern cylinder vase depicting the head of a black and white gazelle in wild growing flowers in blue, rose, green and yellow colors. Sgraffito techniq...

Beautiful and sculptural piece from Kilrush Ceramics, Ireland. This piece, manufacture in the 1950s maintains the elements that keep it current. Minimal and stoic, this piece has a...

Slate black Scandinavian vase with diagonal incisions, pin-stripes. Designed by an anonymous ceramist in Scandinavia during the 1950s or 1960s....

A stunning and rare Bay Keramik floor vase finished with renowned designer Bodo Mans's 'Brasil' décor (1958). BODO MANS was born in 1935. From 1949 to 1951 he apprenticed as a window dresser and a decorative painter. He next trained as a graphic designer in Cologne before taking up the study of ceramics at the technical school in Höhr-Grenzhausen (1954-1956). After brief employment as a ceramic painter with Keto Keramik, he took a temporary job at the Madoura company in Vallauris, a small community in southeastern France bordering the resort town of Antibes. The Madoura workshop is famously where Picasso realized his ceramic designs while living in Vallauris (1948-1955). Following his 1957 return to Germany and a short stint with Ruscha Keramik...

Very beautiful west german mid century ceramic vase manufactured by Bay-Keramik in 1957, decor 'Brasil'. Unglazed surface with white incised decor combined with glossy colored fields...