Hickmet Fine Arts Vases and Vessels

A vibrant tall modernist hand blown glass vase with multicoloured design of a woman’s face with one eye winking in a tribute to the great artist Pablo Picasso. Raised in a custom mad...

A striking mid 20th Century Swedish glass vase of flattened ovoid form with multi-coloured swirls on red background in an Oriental inspired pattern exhibiting vibrant colour ADDITI...

An attractive glass decanter cased in red and engraved with decorative motifs with star cut base and matching stopper ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: ...

An important and rare early 20th Century Austrian colourless glass bowl decorated with red dots, silver-yellow veins and a gold plated base painted with etching ink in small circles....

A stunning vibrant cameo glass vase etched and enamelled with brightly colored trees in the foreground against a hilly background and deep sky blue horizon, exhibiting excellent colo...

An attractive late 20th Century iridescent studio glass vase with a deep blue moon design against an orange and yellow field, exhibiting excellent colour, signed ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 17 cm Width: 7 cm Diam: 12 cm Condition: Excellent Original Condition Circa: 1980 Materials: Cased Glass SKU: 6682 ABOUT Norman Stuart CLARKE...

A stunning late 19th Century French cameo glass vase decorated with deep green conifer and mountainous backdrop in an attractive green and turquoise colour against a variegating yell...

"Red Sunset Vase" by Daum Frères A striking and unusual early 20th Century cameo glass vase enamel painted with a green forest landscape against a fiery yellow and orange field, Sig...

A stunning early 20th Century French cameo soufflé glass vase with a decorative mould blown design of flowering fuschias in blue and purple colours against a vibrant yellow field, si...

"Rain Vase" by Daum Frères An attractive early 20th Century cabinet cameo glass vase etched and enamelled with silver birch trees bent over in a rain-swept landscape. The design hei...

Excellent early 20th Century Art Nouveau green glass dimpled vase of bulbous form with fine petrol blue iridescent surface and further applied with a silver Art Nouveau organic flora...

An excellent French early 20th Century bronze vase decorated with raised frogs upon lily pads around the circumference. The bronze with very fine deep brown patina and fabulous detai...

A very attractive early 20th Century French cameo glass slender shaped vase decroated with deep burgundy and red flowers against a vibrant yellow field, signed Gallé. ADDITIONAL INF...

An exceptionally stunning early 20th Century French cameo glass vase etched and enamelled with a scenic landscape of Lake Como including mountrains, buildings and birds. The vase wit...

Most impressive clear, frosted and opalescent glass vase decorated with raised figures of birds on branches. A fabulous Art Deco design the surface of the vase has been finished by h...

An impressive early 20th Century American iridescent glass vase of slender form with green hearts shining through an attractive golden iridescence, signed L C Tiffany Favrile and numbered to base. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 23 cm Condition: Very Good Condition Circa: 1905 Materials: Iridescent Coloured Glass SKU: 6667 ABOUT Louis Comfort Tiffany Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. Tiffany was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewellery, enamels and metalwork. Early Life He was born in New York City, New York, the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany and Company; and Harriet Olivia Avery Young. He attended school at Pennsylvania Military Academy in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. His first artistic training was as a painter, studying under George Inness in Eagleswood, New Jersey and Samuel Colman in Irvington, New York. He also studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1866-67 and with salon painter Leon-Adolphe-Auguste Belly in 1868-69. Belly’s landscape paintings had a great influence on Tiffany. Career Louis started out as a painter, but became interested in glassmaking from about 1875 and worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn between then and 1878. In 1879, he joined with Candace Wheeler, Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists. The business was short-lived, lasting only four years. The group made designs for wallpaper, furniture, and textiles. He later opened his own glass factory in Corona, New York, determined to provide designs that improved the quality of contemporary glass. Tiffany’s leadership and talent, as well as his father’s money and connections, led this business to thrive. In 1881 Tiffany did the interior design of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, which still remains, but the new firm’s most notable work came in 1882 when President Chester Alan Arthur refused to move into the White House until it had been redecorated. He commissioned Tiffany, who had begun to make a name for himself in New York society for the firm’s interior design work, to redo the state rooms, which Arthur found charmless. He worked on the East Room, the Blue Room, the Red Room, the State Dining Room and the Entrance Hall, refurnishing, repainting in decorative patterns, installing newly designed mantelpieces, changing to wallpaper with dense patterns and, of course, adding Tiffany glass to gaslight fixtures, windows and adding an opalescent floor-to-ceiling glass screen in the Entrance Hall. The Tiffany screen and other Victorian additions were all removed in the Roosevelt renovations of 1902, which restored the White House interiors to Federal style in keeping with its architecture. A desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885 when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm that same year. The first Tiffany Glass Company was incorporated December 1, 1885 and in 1902 became known as the Tiffany Studios. In the beginning of his career, he used cheap jelly jars and bottles because they had the mineral impurities that finer glass lacked. When he was unable to convince fine glassmakers to leave the impurities in, he began making his own glass. Tiffany used opalescent glass in a variety of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass. He developed the “copper foil” technique, which, by edging each piece of cut glass in copper foil and soldering the whole together to create his windows and lamps, made possible a level of detail previously unknown. This can be contrasted with the method of painting in enamels or glass paint on colorless glass, and then setting the glass pieces in lead channels, that had been the dominant method of creating stained glass for hundreds of years in Europe. (The First Presbyterian Church building of 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is unique in that it uses Tiffany windows that partially make use of painted glass.) Use of the colored glass itself to create stained glass pictures was motivated by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and its leader William Morris in England. Fellow artists and glassmakers Oliver Kimberly and Frank Duffner, founders of the Duffner and Kimberly Company and John La Farge were Tiffany’s chief competitors in this new American style of stained glass. Tiffany, Duffner and Kimberly, along with La Farge, had learned their craft at the same glasshouses in Brooklyn in the late 1870s. In 1889 at the Paris Exposition, he is said to have been “Overwhelmed” by the glass work of Émile Gallé, French Art Nouveau artisan. He also met artist Alphonse Mucha. In 1893, Tiffany built a new factory called the Stourbridge Glass Company, later called Tiffany Glass Furnaces, which was located in Corona, Queens, New York, hiring the Englishman Arthur J. Nash to oversee it. In 1893, his company also introduced the term Favrilein conjunction with his first production of blown glass at his new glass factory. Some early examples of his lamps were exhibited in the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. At the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, he won a gold medal with his stained glass windows The Four Seasons He trademarked Favrile (from the old French word for handmade) on November 13, 1894. He later used this word to apply to all of his glass, enamel and pottery. His first commercially produced lamps date from around 1895. Much of his company’s production was in making stained glass windows and Tiffany lamps, but his company designed a complete range of interior decorations. At its peak, his factory employed more than 300 artisans. Recent scholarship led by Rutgers professor Martin Eidelberg suggests that a team of talented single women designers – sometimes referred to as the “Tiffany Girls” – led by Clara Driscoll played a big role in designing many of the floral patterns on the famous Tiffany...

A wonderful early 20th Century Art Deco glass vase etched with vibrant red orchids against a deep orange background interspersed with deep burgundy reefs exhibiting excellent colour ...

A beautiful Art Nouveau glazed earthenware spill vase modelled with a figure of a young beauty standing drinking from a shell with a toga loosely draped over her body with excellent ...

An attractive mid 20th Century Bohemian glass decanter cased in a deep red and engraved with decorative motifs with star cut base and matching stopper ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height:...

A dramatic black glass vase decorated with striking satin finished enamel swirls against a polished background, signed Lalique France. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: ...

An attractive limited edition perfume bottle, the fluted pillars are decorated with palm patterns inspired by Rene Lalique’s Jaffa vase circa 1931. ...

An attractive limited edition clear and frosted glass scent bottle, the clear glass body containing the original Lalique perfume decorated with several raised snake bodies entwined t...

A magnificent early 20th Century Art Nouveau cameo glass vase etched and enamelled with flowering Datura in a vibrant landscape. The design heightened with gilded design on the surfa...

An attractive modernist hand blown glass vase decorated with Murrine patterned deep green and red abstract design with black borders. Signed Vittorio Ferro and with original Murano l...

A stunning French Limited edition Crystal glass Flacon with a shaped stopper in the form of a sensual beauty wearing a loosley draped dress with her arms above her head, exhibiting f...

An attractive late 19th Century French cameo glass souffle vase decorated with raised deep red and burgundy flowers against a variegating yellow field. Exhibiting excellent detail an...

An eye catching and rare early 20th Century French cameo glass vase with a decorative mould blown design of flowering clematis in orange and red colours against a deep yellow field, ...

An attractive late 19th Century French cameo glass vase decorated with deep red and burgundy flowers against a variegating yellow field. Exhibiting excellent detail and colour, signe...

An eyecatching hand blown black vase decorated with deep red roses over the full circumference of the vase, exhibiting very fine colour and detail, signed to base Vittorio Ferro AD...

A fabulous Vittorio Ferro clear glass vase with fused marbled murrines in hues of blue and yellow. Marked Ferro Vittorio and with original Murano label ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height...

A fabulous Vittorio Ferro clear glass vase with fused marbled murrines in hues of blue and grey. Signed Vittorio Ferro and with original Murano label ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: ...

An attractive late 20th Century frosted glass vase cased and acid cut with a decoration of two flying dragonflies amongst water reeds with very fine colour and detail, signed StanMir...

Impressive clear and frosted glass flower vase by Marc Lalique, the body rectangular cut with four tapering sides that pull in to a rounded base above a pair of reclining deer modelled as the stem and raised on a spreading circular foot. Signed under the base Lalique France. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 28 cm Condition: Excellent Condition circa: 1970 Materials: Clear and Frosted Glass DESCRIPTION Lalique Glass René Lalique (1860-1945) began his career as a jewellery apprentice at the age of 16, and by 1881 he was a freelance designer for many of the best-known Parisian jewellers. In 1885, he opened his own workshop on Place Gaillon in Paris, the former workshop of Jules Destape. In 1887, Lalique opened a business on Rue du Quatre-Septembre, and registered the "RL" mark the following year. In 1890, he opened a shop in the Opera District of Paris. Within a decade, Lalique was amongst the best-known Parisian jewellers. Oiseau de Feu (Firebird), 1922 In 1905, Lalique opened a new shop at Place Vendôme which exhibited not only jewellery, but glass works as well. It was close to the shop of renowned perfumer François Coty; in 1907, Lalique began producing ornate perfume bottles for Coty. The production of glass objects began at his country villa in 1902, and continued there until at least 1912. The first Lalique glassworks opened in 1909 in a rented facility in Combs-la-Ville, which Lalique later purchased in 1913. In December 1912, Lalique hosted an exhibition of Lalique Glass—as his glass would come to be known—at the Place Vendôme shop. During the First World War, the glassworks produced mundane items in support of the war effort. In 1919, work began on a new production facility in Wingen-sur-Moder, which opened in 1921. From 1925-1931, Lalique produced 29 models of hood ornaments; a mermaid statuette first produced in 1920 was also later sold as a hood ornament. During the 1920s and 1930s, Lalique was amongst the world's most renowned glassmakers. René Lalique died in 1945. His son Marc Lalique took over the business, operating initially as "M.Lalique" and later as "Cristal Lalique...

An eye catching pink and white 'vertical stripes' blown glass vase with inner white casing, and applied black glass undulating terfoil rim. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 24 cm Diameter: 13 cm Condition: Excellent Original Condition Circa: 1930 Materials: Coloured Glass SKU: 6523 ABOUT Franz Welz The Franz Welz glass...

Delightful French frosted glass clock surmounted with two perched lovebirds, the dial with black enamel numerals, signed Lalique France ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 15 cm Width: 10 cm Condition: Excellent Condition Circa: 1980 Materials: Frosted Glass SKU: 6367 ABOUT Lalique Glass René Lalique (1860-1945) began his career as a jewellery apprentice at the age of 16, and by 1881 he was a freelance designer for many of the best-known Parisian jewellers. In 1885, he opened his own workshop on Place Gaillon in Paris, the former workshop of Jules Destape. In 1887, Lalique opened a business on Rue du Quatre-Septembre, and registered the "RL" mark the following year. In 1890, he opened a shop in the Opera District of Paris. Within a decade, Lalique was amongst the best-known Parisian jewellers. In 1905, Lalique opened a new shop at Place Vendôme which exhibited not only jewellery, but glass works as well. It was close to the shop of renowned perfumer François Coty; in 1907, Lalique began producing ornate perfume bottles for Coty. The production of glass objects began at his country villa in 1902, and continued there until at least 1912. The first Lalique glassworks opened in 1909 in a rented facility in Combs-la-Ville, which Lalique later purchased in 1913. In December 1912, Lalique hosted an exhibition of Lalique Glass—as his glass would come to be known—at the Place Vendôme shop. During the First World War, the glassworks produced mundane items in support of the war effort. In 1919, work began on a new production facility in Wingen-sur-Moder, which opened in 1921. From 1925-1931, Lalique produced 29 models of hood ornaments; a mermaid statuette first produced in 1920 was also later sold as a hood ornament. During the 1920s and 1930s, Lalique was amongst the world's most renowned glassmakers. René Lalique died in 1945. His son Marc Lalique took over the business, operating initially as "M.Lalique" and later as "Cristal Lalique...

An exceptional frosted glass salver with raised deep opalescent design of a beautiful mermaid in a swirling watery landscape, the three large bubbles around her protruding from the underside to act as feet, signed R Lalique Sirène Catalogue Number: 376 Signature Identification: “R. Lalique France” moulded in relief Date Introduced: 1920 Dimensions: 36 cm Diameter Felix Marcilhac Catalogue Raisonné Page 290 Additional information: Diameter: 36 cm Condition: Excellent Original Condition circa: 1920 Materials: Frosted and Opalescent Glass Book Ref: R.Lalique – Catalogue Raisonné by Felix Marcilhac About: 1860 Birth of René Lalique René Lalique was born in Aÿ-en-Champagne in the Marne region of France. Some years later, the Lalique family moved to Paris but continued to spend holidays in Aÿ. René remained deeply attached to his birthplace throughout his life. 1885 The first Parisian workshop Following the death of his father, René became an apprentice to craftsman and jeweller Louis...

An excellent early 20th century American Glass Art Nouveau silvered vase. The surface of the vase has an iridescent green casing highlighting the central decorative flower made out of applied silver. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 17 cm Depth: 9 cm Width: 9 cm Condition: excellent condition Circa: 1910 Materials: Art glass and silver SKU: 6513 ABOUT American glass Art Nouveau silvered vase Art Nouveau Glassware...

An excellent mid 20th century American silvered glass vase. The surface of the vase has a deep rouge colour that accentuates the silver acorn branch design around the circumference of the body. Additional information Height: 16 cm Depth: 9 cm Width: 9 cm Condition: Excellent Condition Circa: 1960 Materials: Art Glass and Silver About American glass Art Nouveau silvered vase Art Nouveau Glassware...

A beautiful early 20th Century cameo glass vase acid cut and etched with a deep red floral decoration against a yellow background. Exhibiting very fine hand finised surface detail an...

"Paysage de Printemps" by Daum Frères A stunning late 19th Century French cameo glass vase etched and enamelled with a vibrant spring landscape, exhibiting excellent colour and de...

"Blue flower vase" by Emile Gallé A beautiful early 20th Century cameo glass vase acid cut and etched with a blue and purple floral decoration against a yellow field. Exhibiting ve...

A wonderful cameo glass vase etched and enameled with silver birch trees bent over in a rain-swept landscape. The design heightened with deep pink and green colors interwoven on the ...