Stoneware Decorative Bowls

A lovely assembled set of six early 20th century American Albany-slip glazed stoneware mixing bowls of simple but sophisticated forms in varied ...

A beautiful antique petite English white ironstone bowl with a lovely fluted design, circa 1880. Maker's mark on reverse. This would be a wonderfu...

A serving dish in faience designed by Stig Lindberg at Gustavsberg Studio, it´s 25,5 x 19 cm. It´s in very good condition. It´s marked with the Stig Lindberg characteristic Studio-hand.

A truly wonderful design piece, and one of my favourite pieces, is this hand-built wood fired three cornered triangular studio pottery dish of scul...

Extraordinary modernist item by Swedish Tilgmans Keramik. Fully glazed centerpiece or wall decoration depicting a green faced woman with long stemmed yellow and blue flowers on a striped dark blue background created with the sgraffito technique. Manufactured in 1957 by German/Swedish Paul Harald Tilgman in his workshop in a small town close to Gothenburg in Sweden. Blue patterned glaze on the sides and muted blue leaves on the milky white glazed base. Signed and dated on base. A rare and unique piece in beautiful condition! Sweden, 1957. About Tilgmans Keramik: Paul Harald “Harry” Tilgmann was born in Dresden, Germany in 1904 and emigrated to Sweden during WWII where he started Tilgmans Keramik (= Ceramics) in 1948 in the small town of Utbynäs close to Gothenburg. Tilgman had 16 employees working for him and when he hired the Polish refugee Marian Zawadzki (1912-1978) as artistic director in 1953, Tilgman Keramik started experimenting with the distinct sgraffito technique. The sgraffito technique consists of carving fine lines into the background of a design through a light coloured glaze down to a dark grey clay slip. This created a unique textured ground which has become a style associated with Tilgmans Keramik in particular. The decorative elements also appear to be outlined with a carved line and then hand painted with overglazes where birds, fish, flowers, butterflies and other animals were a common theme. This type of work was the most popular in Mid Century Sweden alongside Tilgmans small animal figurines...

Signe Persson-Melin, a Copenhagen and Konstfack-educated artist, established her Malmö workshop in 1951. Renowned for her spice jars, pitchers, and bowls, she later collaborated with iconic brands like Boda Nova and Höganäs Keramik. As a two-time professor at Konstfack, she also left her mark on public spaces, crafting ceramic installations in the Stockholm subway. This unique 1960s/70s bowl...

Huge ceramic bowl by Noomi Backhausen for Søholm Denmark. This bowl with the tree of life motif is made of chamotte clay which gives it a vivid surf...

A acorn-shaped brown bowl designed by Gunnar Nylund at Rörstrand, it´s 13,5 x 8,5 cm in diameter. It´s in very good condition except from some minor marks. ...

A beautiful platter designed by Stig Lindberg at Gustavsbergs Studio in Stockholm, it is 30.5 cm (12.2") in diameter. It has a black/brown color an...

A beautiful 'Swedish Modern' stoneware footed bowl with white 'Carrara' glaze. Made by Wilhelm Kåge at Gustavsberg in Sweden, 1930s. Great condition. Stamped 'Gustavsberg / CARRAR...

Handcrafted Japanese ceramic bowl signed Jin Kobayashi. Large stoneware plate hand made and hand painted with autumn leaves design. Hand-carved ge...

A red-glazed stoneware bowl designed by Agnete Jørgensen and produced by Bing & Grøndahl, 1960s.

Pre-owned goods are exempt from import duties for U.S. customers. Therefore, no import tariffs will be applicable to your purchase. Frank Keramik, Denmark. Large bowl of glazed sto...

Beautiful simplistic midcentury modernist piece from the 1970s by Danish artist Finn Lynggaard (1930-2011). Soft square shaped bowl / plate / centerpiece with rounded corners. Light ...

A beautiful stoneware bowl with amazing glaze. Made by Tyra Lundgren. Executed during the artist's time spent at Sèvres, between 1934-1939. Excellent condition. Impressed with artist's name and maker's marks. Tyra Lundgren (1897-1979) was one of the most multifaceted artists and modernists of the twentieth century. She was a painter, drawer, sculptor, ceramist, glass- and textile designer, as well as an author and an art critic. She was the first woman who designed glass for Paolo Venini at Murano in Venice and she also served as the artistic leader at Arabia in Helsinki at a time when men tended to hold those kinds of positions. Tyra Lundgren grew up in Djursholm, near Stockholm. Her parents were John Petter Lundgren, professor at Veterinärinstitutet (institute of veterinary sciences) in Stockholm, and Edith Lundgren née Åberg, who was a housewife and raised their six children. The bourgeois home also comprised a nanny and a female cook. The family were very socially active, travelled often, and enjoyed the outdoor lifestyle. Tyra Lundgren’s schooling began at Djursholm coeducational school, where her teachers included Natanael and Elsa Beskow and Alice Tegnér. Her school friends included Greta Knutson-Tzara, Stellan Mörner, and Ingrid Rydbeck-Zuhr. Tyra Lundgren knew from the time she was five years old that she wanted to be an artist. She first became aware of the profession through Axel Fahlcrantz, who rented a studio on the plot of land where she lived with her family. In 1913 she began to attend Högre konstindustriella skolan (HKS, now known as Konstfack, college of arts, crafts and design) where she studied decorative art as well as handicrafts in various forms until 1917. One of her fellow students and friends there was Estrid Ericson, who later founded Svenskt Tenn AB in 1924. Whilst attending HKS Tyra Lundgren also took painting lessons at the Althin school of painting. In 1917 she was accepted as a candidate at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts where, apart from breaks during which she undertook studies abroad, she remained until 1922. She spent a couple of months taking lessons from Anton Hanak in Vienna and from 1920–1923 she was a student of André Lhote in Paris. Tyra Lundgren was primarily active in four countries: Sweden, Finland, France, and Italy. She spent much of her professional life travelling and considered herself to be a European. Greece and Mexico also formed important centres in her artistic life, as did the USA. She had an extensive social network which included focal individuals within twentieth century-European and American artistic and cultural circles. Tyra Lundgren’s main artistic motifs were birds, fish, and people which she depicted through different techniques and materials. Her artistic expression involved a variety of different directions and styles. She was a pioneer of the 1920s Swedish Grace style, the name of which had been coined by the art critic Morton Shand at the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930. This was a Swedish Art Deco style, characterised by elegance and traditional art which contrasted with the current artistic ideals of functionalism. Tyra Lundgren made her debut at a group exhibition held at Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna in 1921. She went on to show her work at various exhibitions throughout the 1920s. After that period she only very rarely exhibited her paintings. Tyra Lundgren’s painted output can be divided into different periods or stylistic directions. The first of these, and the most extensive, was her post-Cubist period which began in 1920 on her arrival in Paris. Her paintings from this time and right up to the mid-1930s typically comprise portraits, self-portraits, live-model painting, still-lifes, interiors, and landscapes in the Cubist style. Many of the great number of self-portraits she painted were produced in the New Objective style, displaying broad variation in terms of clothes, poses and techniques. Two of these – Huvud med vit duk and Självporträtt both from 1921 – can be seen at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, although the majority of these works are at Gotlands Museum. Tyra Lundgren’s second artistic period comprises the years of 1927 to 1929 and is characterised by the New Objective style inspired by medieval techniques and materials (Giotto, Piero della Francesca). Her motifs were still-lifes and landscapes. At this point she was living in Rome and was close to the circle involved in the Valori plastici: rivista d’arte art journal. This period saw a breakthrough in her development as a painter. From the 1950s through the 1970s her work can almost be described as belonging to the Concrete style. Using light pastel colours her paintings sought light in a sometimes non-figurative expression, but often depicting abstract bird-shapes or other nature-inspired imagery. Her paintings from this period are outsized and display powerful colours, in yellows, reds, and blues. Tyra Lundgren maintained a constant production of drawings, both in terms of individual artworks and sketches for patterns and designs. She also produced the illustrations for her book Fagert i Fide. Årstiderna på en gammal gotlandsgård, published in 1961. During her early years she also produced advertising illustrations. She spent the final years of her life primarily working with lithographs which were printed at Galleri Prisma and depicted images of doves, swallows, magpies and crows. Tyra Lundgren is meanwhile best known for her work as a ceramist and in this sphere she was one of Sweden’s leading exponents. She worked in the porcelain industry as a designer and as an artisan and ceramic sculptor. Her first job was at St Eriks Lervarufabrik in Uppsala from 1922–1924, she then worked at Arabia from 1924–1937, and at Rörstrand and Lidköping Porslinsfabrik. She was the artistic leader at Arabia ahead of the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition and she exhibited her work at the World’s Fairs. During the 1934–1938 period she was connected to the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres porcelain factory in Paris. Tyra Lundgren was a pioneer when it came to giving ceramic art a public space in Sweden. She produced around 20 outsized reliefs in stoneware, so-called monumental reliefs. One of these is Märkeskvinnor, from 1947, for the former girls’ school at Bohusgatan in Stockholm. From the 1940s onwards Tyra Lundgren produced sculptural objects in Chamotte clay and stoneware, with various glazings. Her small birds are well-known and popular with many. When her ceramic efforts became too much for her during the 1970s she then produced models for sculptures in bronze. There are six of these in various places around the globe, including Solfågel in Almedalen, Visby. Tyra Lundgren began to work as a glassware designer at Moser in Karlsbad in 1922 where she designed new table services and modernised older ones. She also worked freelance for Riihimäki factory in Finland during the 1924–1929 period. From 1934 to 1938 she was employed by Kosta glass factory where she mainly designed thick-walled bowls and vases, engraved with classical motifs. She was introduced to the glassmaker Paolo Venini at Murano during the Triennale di Milano of 1936 and they began a collaboration that lasted into the 1950s. As part of this collaboration Tyra Lundgren became the first woman to design glassware and, in conjunction with the glassblower Arturo Biasutto, she developed new techniques of glass production. Her motifs at this point were birds, fish, snail-shaped designs and leaf-patterned bowls using traditional techniques as well as in new designs. It was during this time that she created the so-called tissue-shaped bowls and it remains unclear as to who specifically came up with the design but Tyra Lundgren claimed it was of her making. Tyra Lundgren was active as textile designer for Licium (now HV Licium), the sacred textiles...

Vintage Danish Stoneware Vase and Bowl by Jørgen Mogensen 1970s Set of vase and bowl in stoneware designed by Danish artist Jørgen Mogensen. Tall square vase with abstract motifs in...

Guido Gambone Vessel Glazed Stoneware Italy, 1955c Tribal diamonds and squares in brown with green outlines Glazed signature with donkey mark to underside: [Gambone Italy] Dimensions...

An impressive and large stoneware bowl designed by Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand. Gorgeous coloring and great scale, the bowl has wonderful movement. Could be used as a fruit bowl, or ...

Rare large Swedish mid century ceramic / stoneware "Rubus" dish / bowl by Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand Sweden, 1950s. In good original condition and signed by the artist. Dimensions...

An unusual low vase or decorative bowl designed by Carl Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand. A wonderful predominately green glaze with areas of other colors showing through. A wonderful pi...

A blue and black glazed bowl designed by Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, for Rörstrand, Sweden, c. 1960s. .

Very rare and early French mid century hand painted stoneware bowl in white, pink and green by Georges Jouve produced in France, 1940s. In good original condition with beautiful crac...

Carl Halier (1873-1948) for Royal Copenhagen, bowl in stoneware with sung glaze. Model number 21822. Marked. First factory quality. Dimensions: D 15.5 x H 3.5 cm.

A beautiful stoneware bowl with amazing hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1962. Great condition. Incised signa...

Pre-owned goods are exempt from import duties for U.S. customers. Therefore, no import tariffs will be applicable to your purchase. Nils Thorsson for Royal Copenhagen. Unique stone...

A beautiful stoneware bowl with blue glaze. Made by Wilhelm Kåge at Gustavsberg Studio in Sweden. In production 1958-1962. Great condition, only a few light scratches. Impressed wit...

A small studio pottery dish by significant 20th Century ceramicist Otto Heino. This example features the finger ribbing with a blue and red glaze, blending to a purplish haze in some...

A spectacular example of the possible results from a wood firnig. This small hand built ceramic bowl is truly unique, from the rustic hand formed shape and rim to the surface treatme...

A wonderful ceramic dish or ashtray with a craquelure gloss mint green glaze with unglazed incised corners. Designed, made, and signed by Los Angeles Ceramicist Barbarba Willis. Strong Usonian and or Native American design...

Designed by Berndt Friberg for Gustavsberg. Marked with year letter "K" and the number "42". This refined mid-20th century piece by Berndt Friberg is a striking example of his master...

Hertha Bengtson (1917-1993) for Rörstrand. Large unique bowl in glazed stoneware. Mid-20th century. Measures: 30 x 9 cm. In excellent condition. Signed.

This small hand built ceramic bowl is truly unique, from the rustic hand formed shape to the surface treatment. It was wood-fired in an "Anagama" kiln in Upstate New York, a traditional Japanese kiln. These kilns are made of special bricks built on a slowly slanting hillside with several firing chambers. Wood must be added to the fire over several days and nights. Heat and smoke from the ash swirls through the kiln, landing almost randomly on the work. Depending on its location in the kiln and any glaze that was applied, the effects can vary widely. This piece has a traditional Shino Glaze...

Large and unique stoneware bowl designed by Stig Lindberg and produced in Gustavsberg studios in the 1960s. Graphic pattern with a beautiful turquoise matt glaze. Marked with sig...

A beautiful stoneware art deco footed bowl. Amazing glaze with details in hand-painted gold. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for ALP (Lidköpings Porslinsfabrik), Sweden, 1930s. Great cond...

Jørgen Mogensen for Royal Copenhagen, stoneware dish with motif of beetles. Model 21871. In perfect condition. Marked. First factory quality. Dimensions: L 21.5 x D 15.5 x H 3.5...

European studio ceramicist. Large unique bowl / dish in glazed stoneware with patterned decoration. 1980s. Measures: 30 x 5.7 cm. In excellent condition. Signed.

A rare and unusual Studio Pottery charger by Gerry Williams, (1926-2014.) Stoneware with grey, blue and black earth tone glaze, for "New Hampshire Governor John W. King" in bold letters around the rim, produced for political Campaign...

A pair of rare and beautiful stoneware bowls with amazing glaze. Made by Carl-Harry Stålhane at Rörstrand, Sweden, 1950s. Excellent condition. Signed 'CHS' and makers mark 'R'. Car...

A beautiful stoneware bowl with amazing hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1965. Great condition. A dark spot in...

A striking mid-century modern stoneware bowl or bonsai planter with a distinct Brutalist aesthetic. Raised on four sturdy legs, this sculptural piece features a rough-textured exteri...

Gertrud Lonegren was a designer at Rorstrand from 1936 to 1941. Together with GUNNAR NYLUND, who became Rorstrand's artistic director in 1931, he laid the foundations for Rorstrand'...

Wonderful Fajance square bowl from the Baca line by Nils Thorsson for Royal Copenhagen, circa 1960s. The stunning gold and brown gla...

Pre-owned goods are exempt from import duties for U.S. customers. Therefore, no import tariffs will be applicable to your purchase. Gerd Hjort Petersen for Royal Copenhagen. Small...

A beautiful stoneware bowl with amazing hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1969. Great condition. Incised signa...

Unique stoneware bowl with amazing celadon crackle glaze. Made by Carl-Harry Stålhane at Rörstrand Ateljé, Sweden, 1960s. Good condition. Factory second due to dark spots in the bot...

A beautiful stoneware bowl with an amazing glaze. Made by Arthur Andersson for Wallakra, Sweden, 1950s Great condition. Impressed with makers mark 'Wallåkra'. Arthur Andersson was...

A set of two beautiful 'Våga' bowls. Stoneware with white 'Carrara' glaze. Made by Wilhelm Kåge at Gustavsberg Studio in Sweden, 1940s. Swedish Grace. Great condition. Stamped with...

Modernist design, stepped undulating edge. Bright blue glaze. Shown in natural light and under studio cool lights.

A beautiful and unique stoneware bowl with amazing glaze. Made by Rolf Palm, in the artist's studio, Mölle, Sweden, 1978. Excellent condition. Incised ’Palm / Mölle / G8’ and ma...

Scandinavian Modern ox-blood glaze hand thrown footed bowl by Friedl Kjellberg for Arabia, Finland. 1950's Signed on bottom She is known to have been inspired and influenced through...

Stoneware bowl with modelled fruits in oxblood glaze. Model 20677. Designed in 1944. Signed by Axel Salto og marked by Royal Copenhagen.

Rare footed bowl designed by Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand. Wonderful glaze with a amber body and tones of brown to blue. Unique design with footed base. Signed on underside with the "...

This beautifully hand-crafted Scandinavian modern merlot red stoneware decorative bowl by Andersson & Johansson, Höganäs, features an organic shape with a flat outer surface. Inside,...

Stunning large hand thrown stoneware plate by Swedish artist Marianne Westman from the 1960s. On the inside there is spiral shape in a beautiful green ...

These sculptural vessels belong to the Cadaqués Collection, a body of work inspired by the rugged landscape and poetic atmosphere of this Mediterranean village. Hand-built in high-te...

Friedl Holzer-Kjellberg Mid-Century Modern stoneware plate glazed deep red and vibrant blue made for Arabia, Finland. Kjellberg's design style has been characterized as 'modern class...

Create a sculptural arrangement of organic shapes, combining style statement and functionality with these Italian vintage earthenware Art pieces: a group of 4 Mid-Century Modern different ceramics is available, 3 vases and a bowl/catch-all, by Bertoncello and designer Roberto Rigon, showing inspiration from Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore work. This particular postmodern sculpture bowl is quite innovative in its aerodynamic shape for the period and particularly in the mid-20th-century ceramic sector, glazed in a beige terracotta...

A beautiful lidded stoneware bowl with amazing glaze. Made by Birger Åström (1931-2020) in his studio in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, 1960s. Excellent conditio...

A beautiful lidded stoneware bowl. Made by Birger Åström (1931-2020) in his studio in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, 1960s. Excellent condition. Signed 'BÅM'. T...

Rare pair of Swedish mid century ceramic / stoneware "Rubus" bowls by Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand Sweden, 1950s. In good original condition and signed by the artist. Dimensions: H:...