Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
MID-CENTURY MODERN STYLE
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged during the mid-20th century
- Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
- A heyday of innovation in postwar America
- Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
- A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
- Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
- Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
- Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
- Promotion of functionality
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
- Charles and Ray Eames
- Eero Saarinen
- Milo Baughman
- Florence Knoll
- Harry Bertoia
- Isamu Noguchi
- George Nelson
- Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
- Eames lounge chair
- Nelson daybed
- Florence Knoll sofa
- Egg chair
- Womb chair
- Noguchi coffee table
- Barcelona chair
VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.
Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.
Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by legendary manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.
Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
Style: Mid-Century Modern
Color: Gray
Italian Murano Art Glass Candy Pieces, Set of 10
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful set of ten (10) Italian Murano art glass candy pieces in a rainbow of colors, circa mid-20th century, Italy. Colors include red, yellow, green, white and several shades o...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Faux Coral Fruit Bowl
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Chic modern style fruit bowl crafted in cast aluminum with a bold faux coral composition.
Category
20th Century Indian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Aluminum
1940s Grouping Pair Candleholders & Center Piece Abingdon Pottery Flower Motif
Located in Miami, FL
Grouping of a pair of candleholders and center piece bowl from the mid-1940s by Abingdon Pottery. The two porcelain candleholders hold two candles eac...
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1940s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Barovier e Toso Murano Cordonato D' Oro Sea Mist Turquoise and Gold Glass Bowl
Located in North Miami, FL
This stunning and magnificent color of sea mist turquoise and gold in this vintage Murano Italian Mid-Century Modern bowl is by the maestros; Barovier e Toso. It is of the Cordonato d' Oro technique where twisted ropes of gold are applied in each section of glass. From the 50's. This can be used for serving or just as a beautiful Murano object. Very rich looking and a gorgeous color. This is a very desirable color palette and a very special Murano vintage bowl...
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Gold
Raul Coronel Signed Mid-Century Modern Large Heavy Ceramic Pottery Bowl, 1960s
By Raul Coronel
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully made and colored heavy bowl by Mexican born ceramic master Raul Coronel who played an important role in the American (he became a naturalized ...
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1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Earthenware
Barovier Toso Murano Clear Iridescent Italian Art Glass Chunky Ribbed Bowl
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful, elegant, vintage Murano hand blown clear and iridescent / aurene Italian art glass bowl. Documented to the Barovier e Toso company. The piece is made with thick glass, and...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Glass
Murano Green Ashtray Bowl with Air Bubbles by Archimede Seguso, Italy, C.1960
Located in London, GB
Murano green ashtray bowl with air bubbles by Archimede Seguso, Italy, C.1960.
In very good vintage condition.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Murano Glass
Alvar Aalto Glass Bowl Savoy, circa 1960
By Alvar Aalto
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Glass designed by Alvar Aalto, circa 1960.
Manufactured in Finland.
In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use in the structure some broken little piece o...
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1960s Finnish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Glass
Asta Stromberg for Strombergshyttan faceted blue tinted crystal bowl Sweden
Located in Ferndale, MI
In 1876, a glassworks called Lindfors ("winding falls") opened just outside the town of Hovmantorp, about 50 km west of Orrefors. In 1933, Edward Strömberg, who was a former head at ...
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Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Crystal
Vintage Bohemian Glass Bowl, 1960's
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Czechoslovakia
Made of glass
Re-polished
Good Original condition.
Category
1960s Czech Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Glass
Mid-Century Modernist Smoked Glass Curved Bowl by Holmegaard of Denmark
By Holmegaard
Located in New York, NY
A mid-century smoked glass curved bowl by Holmegaard of Denmark. A flat base and circular form features curved wave-like rounded edges. Handblown in smoked grey glass with variances ...
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1960s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Smoked Glass
Vintage Metlox PoppyTrail Turquoise Free Form Ruffled Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is an unique abstract form Mid-century PoopyTrail bowl. The color is vibrant and will add a pop to your living space. the bowl is marked #737 manufactured by Metlox 1950.
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Pottery
Crystal Bowl, Poland, 1960s
Located in Chorzów, PL
Crystal bowl for fruit or sweets.
Made in Poland in the 1950s / 1960s.
Dimensions: height 10 cm / width 20 cm.
Category
1960s Polish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Crystal
20th Century Italian Murano Centerpiece, 1960s
Located in Paris, FR
A beautiful Mid-Century Modern centerpiece bowl or art glass vase in the hand blown Sommerso technique of hues of pink and purple,
Italy, circa 1960s.
Spirit Gallery presents a h...
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Murano Glass
Dish Designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand, Sweden, 1960s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Dish designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand,
Sweden. 1960s.
Stoneware.
Signed.
Measurements:
H: 6 cm / 2 1/4"
Diameter: 18.5 cm / 7 1/4".
Carl-Harry Stålhane (1920-1990) was born in the town of Mariestad, in the west of Sweden. As a child, he dreamed of being a successful painter. He started working for Rorstrand in neighboring Lidkoping at the age of 18. Initially, he decorated ceramic wares as assistant for the leading artist Gunnar Nylund. Carl-Harry decorated Rorstrand’s exclusive Flambé range as well as producing idyllic floral designs.
In the mid 1940s, Carl-Harry Stålhane began to develop his own stoneware. He had his first solo exhibition in 1948, impressing the public with an ability to work in most contemporary styles of stoneware. But after studying in Paris in the late 1940s, Carl-Harry found a style that was truly his own. Inspired by the hunger for new products to meet the post-war economic boom, he developed from being a gifted decorator to a first-rate ceramic artist. He was praised for his "column-like, slender-necked stoneware vases with their peach surfaces", as one magazine put it. Spurred on by a deep love of the ceramic wares of the Far East, Carl-Harry liberated himself from the European tradition of ceramics, finding inspiration in foreign cultures, in Picasso and in constructivist art.
The 1950s brought major successes: a diploma and a gold medal at Milan Triennials as well as solo exhibitions in Sweden, the UK and the USA. Carl-Harry commenced his career as an industrial designer in 1954. His Blanca tableware — in elegant white porcelain — was much in demand and gained him international prizes. He designed almost everything from numerous table sets decorations to rustic ashtrays.
Carl-Harry Stålhane’s production of unique ceramic works of art increased notably in the late 1950s. In 1960 he reached something of a peak with an exhibition at Galerie Blanche in Stockholm. The exhibition showed robustly dark wares that were hailed as the new ceramics...
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Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Stoneware
Barovier Toso Murano Iridescent Italian Art Glass Sculptural Conch Seashell Bowl
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful, rare, vintage Murano hand blown clear iridescent Italian art glass sculptural conch shell bowl. Documented to designer Ercole Barovier for Barovier e Toso, circa 1940s. Cr...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Gunnar Nylund "ASH" 3 Wave Small Stoneware Bowl, Rorstrand, Sweden, 1950s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gunnar Nylund "ASH" 3 wave small stoneware bowl, Rorstrand, Sweden, 1950s
Beautiful stoneware bowl by Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand in shades of blue and br...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Stoneware
Jaap Ravelli Large Sculptural Studio Pottery Bowl
By Ravelli
Located in Tilburg, NL
Jaap Ravelli Large Sculptural Mid Century Studio Pottery Bowl. The Netherlands, mid 20th century.
This large pottery bowl by Jaap Ravelli is a very spec...
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Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Italian Marble Center Bowl, 1980s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful decorative Italian marble center bowl made in 1980 , the bowl is in very good conditions as you can see from the pictures.
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Marble
Crystal Bowl, Poland, 1960s
Located in Chorzów, PL
Crystal bowl for fruit or sweets.
Made in Poland in the 1950s / 1960s.
Very good condition.
Dimensions: height 9 cm / diameter 20.5 cm.
Category
1960s Polish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Crystal
Sommerso Organic Murano Art Glass Bowl, Catchall or Cigar Astray
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Gorgeous hand blown Murano art glass piece with Sommerso and bullicante techniques. A beautiful organic shaped Cigar ashtray or catchall in blue glass cased into dark pink and clear ...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Art Glass
Mid-Century Modern Venini Sommerso Big Murano Glass Bowl, Italy 1960
By Paolo Venini
Located in Catania, IT
Amazing bowl in submerged Murano glass in various shades of green that make it unique and inimitable, the irregular shape is beautiful.
Perfect conditions.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass, Sommerso
Hand Blown Italian Murano Glass Bowl with Gold Flecks
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A hand blown glass bowl with White interior and heavy gold fleck details on exterior of glass - a wonderful decorative piece or also works nicely to serve, or hold accessories.
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Art Glass
1960s Cast Resin Flower Shape Bowl / Centerpiece by Dorothy Thorpe
Located in Buffalo, NY
1960s cast resin flower shape bowl / centerpiece by Dorothy Thorpe, retains original label.
Category
1960s Mexican Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Resin
Fabulous Mid-Century Glass Bowl Floral Décor with Red Enamel Accents
Located in Bochum, NRW
A gorgeous crystal glass bowl on 3 small feet. Richly decorated with etched roses and cherry flowers enhanced with red enamel. Twisted rim. Excellent condition.
Dimensions: Height 1...
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Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Blown Glass
Laura Andreson Signed Large Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Pottery Low Bowl, 1954
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully made and glazed large low bowl by renowned American potter Laura Andreson. Gorgeous in its Mid-Century Modern design and glowing pale colo...
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1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Stoneware
Vintage Herb Ritts Mid-Century Lucite Sculpture
By Herb Ritts
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Made of thick Lucite and shaped organically into a center piece or serving bowl resting on a flattened area on the bottom this bowl is attributed to the Ritts Company of Los Angeles ...
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Lucite
Cenedese Murano Opalescent Purple White Italian Art Glass Clam Seashell Bowl
By Cenedese
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown opalescent white and purple Italian art glass clam shell decorative bowl. Documented to the Cenedese Company. Would ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Glass, Opaline Glass, Sommerso, Murano Glass, Blown Glass, Art Glass
Wonderful Lorin Marsh Beehive Bowl Smoke Grey Murano Art Glass Centerpiece Bowl
By Lorin Marsh
Located in Roslyn, NY
A wonderful Lorin Marsh "Beehive Bowl" in smoke grey Murano hand blown art glass large centerpiece bowl
Item#: 4563 made In Italy
Measurements: 17...
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass
Mid-Century Glass Bowl, Designed Josef Hospodka for Chribska, 1960's
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Czechoslovakia
Made of glass
Minor defect, see foto
Original condition.
Category
1960s Czech Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Art Glass
Danish Mid-Century Ceramic Tray Handpainted Still Life Motif by Kai Klinge 1960s
By Giorgio Morandi
Located in Aarhus C, DK
Rare mid-century decorative tray by Danish painter and ceramist Kai Klinge (1925-2000). Made circa 1950s to 60s.
The tray is decorated with a handpainte...
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1960s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
Josef Ekberg for Gustavsberg Ceramic Pottery Bowl
By Josef Ekberg
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A charming and early bowl designed by Josef Ekberg for Gustavsberg. Wonderful color and glaze with a floral motif. Signed on reverse "Gustavsberg/ 1916/ Ekberg".
Other notable ce...
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1910s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
Beautiful Blue and Clear Art Glass Sommerso Bowl Object Vintage, Murano, Italy
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Gorgeous hand blown Murano art glass piece with Sommerso and bullicante techniques. A beautiful organic shaped bowl or catchall in blue and clear glass, Italy, 1970s.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Art Glass
Murano Fratelli Toso Murrine Multi Color Italian Art Glass Bowl, 1950s
Located in Barcelona, ES
Eye-catching midcentury millefiori flower mosaic hand blown Murano art glass round bowl by Fratelli Toso, Italy, 1950s.
This lovely colorful bowl is made with the murrine glass technique. Most of murrines are lined in white but some others are line in Klein blue, green and black. The multi-color small flowers mosaic makes this piece highly decorative for collectors. Use it as rings or jewelry bowl, vide-poche or ashtray.
Place it with other Murano glass bowls on a mirrored tray to use it in a vanity table or in a powder room as soap bowl...
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Murrine
Crystal Platter, Poland, 1960s
Located in Chorzów, PL
Crystal bowl - platter for fruit or sweets.
Made in Poland in the 1950s / 1960s.
Very good condition.
Dimensions: height 4cm, width 29m, depth 19cm.
Category
1960s Polish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Crystal
Early Dora De Larios California Studio Pottery Bowl with Abstract Modern Design
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Handmade California studio stoneware bowl with abstract modern carved design created by Dora De Larios of Los Angeles, California. Bowl measures 3.5" by 7.5" and is signed Dora de La...
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1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Stoneware
Murano Glass Bowl with Copper and Ruby Aventurine
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful clear centerpiece bowl / ashtray with copper aventurine and burgundy streaks in web design. Indistinct Murano label (signed). Size: 3"W x 1...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Venini Murano Signed Made in Italy Amethyst White Ribbons Italian Art Glass Bowl
By Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown dark amethyst and white Zanfirico ribbons Italian art glass bowl / vide poche. Attributed to the Venini company, and signed "Made In Italy" undern...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Murano Glass, Blown Glass
Murano Glass Mortar and Pestle with Gold Flecks
By Murano 5
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Murano glass mortar and pestle with gold flecks.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Art Glass
United States US Senate Eagle Crystal Glass Candy Dish Bowl Centrepiece
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Rare US senate crystal bowl, clear crystal glass bowl with the insignia of the United States Senate Eagle. Good weight at 6.15 lbs. Possibly made ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Blown Glass
Crystal Bowls, Poland, 1960s, Set of 2
Located in Chorzów, PL
Crystal bowls for fruit or sweets.
Made in Poland in the 1950s / 1960s.
Very good condition.
Dimensions: height 9 cm / diameter 19cm.
Smaller height 6 cm / diameter 12cm.
Category
1960s Polish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Crystal
Mid-Century Murano Glass Bowl Pentagonal, Italy, circa 1960/70
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
Extraordinary pentagonal Murano glass bowl out of the world renown workshops in Italy from the period around 1960/70. This very modern looking glass b...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Murano Glass
'Karelia' Porcelain Leaf-Pattern Dish by Tapio Wirkkala for Rosenthal, 1970s
Located in London, GB
Tapio Wirkkala for Rosenthal, c. 1970
‘Karelia’ leaf-pattern dish
White porcelain
Very good condition with only very minor marks
Dimensions, approx..:
lenght 28cm, width 9cm...
Category
1970s Finnish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
German Glass Bowl by Karl Wiedmann for WMF Ikora, 1930s Bauhaus Art Deco
Located in Nuernberg, DE
An amazing WMF 'Ikora' crackled art glass bowl, by Karl Wiedmann for WMF (Wurttembergische Metallwarenfabrik), 1930s Bauhaus Art Deco. It is made of glass with crackled details in gr...
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1930s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Art Glass
Decorative Ceramic Vide-Poche by Pol Chambost, circa 1950s
By Pol Chambost
Located in London, GB
Decorative ceramic vide-poche by Pol Chambost (circa 1950s). Small yet elegant seashell-shaped form with white base and dark, grape-purple outline and lip. Outside of the centre, the...
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
Midcentury Glass "Coquille" Bowls by Flygsfors, Sweden
By Flygsfors, Paul Kedelv
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
A set of three small glass bowls called Coquille bowls by Paul Kedelv for Flygsfors, Sweden.
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Art Glass
Mid-Century Transitional Tall Purple Decorative Stoneware Bowl
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A heavy decorative stoneware bowl in pale purple. This bowl will be fabulous sitting on a coffee table, in a kitchen holding fruit, or in a foyer for holding keys and wallets. The di...
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Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Stone
Barbini Murano Signed White Scavo Surface Texture Italian Art Glass Candy Bowl
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown white Italian art glass bowl with “Scavo” surface. Documented, and fully signed by designer Alfredo Barbini. The signature reads "Barbini Murano" ...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Vintage Art Glass Bowl, Czechoslovakia, 1960's
Located in Praha, CZ
Hard to find Bohemian art glass bowl in a shape of a triangle from former Czechoslovakia will uplift any interior.
The bowl is 6 cm (2.36 inch) high at the lowest point, 12 cm (4.72...
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Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Glass
Seguso Huge Square Black &. White 'Scavo' Murano Glass Bowl Springer Style 1980s
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
Huge and rare Karl Springer style black colored / coloured square Murano glass bowl, dish or ashtray with white 'a Scavo' finish by Seguso Vetri d'Arte Murano, Italy, circa 1980s. Elegant and simplistic in form and showing extraordinary workmanship with the use of the 'Scavo' technique to replicate to look and feel of ancient Roman archeological glass. This technique was achieved by throwing a mixture of. chemical powders on the hot glass whilst on the melt.
This is a very large bowl...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Cenedese Signed Large Purple Spiral & Clear Murano Glass Fruit Bowl, circa 1980s
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
Signed Cenedese rare & large art glass bowl attributed to Professor Antonio Da Ros, made circa 1980s. This is a magical piece of murano glass - measuring a large 29.7cms / 12 inches ...
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1980s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
1950s Italian Plate, Silvia Poggi Enamel on Metal Decor White Gray Yellow Black
Located in London, GB
A large and very beautiful artistic circular plate 1950s Italian design by Silvia Poggi Bonzi. Abstract Enamel decor on metal white, gray, yellow, black. Curved edge.
This bowl coul...
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Metal
Bengt Edenfalk Glass Bowl Skruf Sweden 1960s
By Skruf, Bengt Edenfalk
Located in Bochum, NRW
Glass bowl designed by Bengt Edenfalk for Skrufs Glasbruk, Sweden, 1960s. Excellent condition. Original manufacturer label.
Dimensions:
Height: 16,5c...
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1960s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Blown Glass
Lucie Rie 'Austrian/British, 1902-1995' Squeezed Oatmeal Glazed Pottery Bowl
By Lucie Rie
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Stoneware oatmeal glazed bowl with small crater and speckled inclusions with a wavy rim with a fine manganese glazed edge by Lucie Rie (Austrian/British, 1902-1995) dating from aroun...
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1960s English Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Stoneware
Aluminum Clam Shell Bowl
By Bruce Fox
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Mid century bowl crafted in cast and polished aluminum in the iconic clam shell form. Signed in the cast on the bottom.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Aluminum
Mid-Century Glass Bowl Designed by Josef Hospodka, 1960's
Located in Praha, CZ
- Made in Czechoslovakia
- Made of glass
- Re-polished
- Good, original condition.
Category
1960s Czech Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Glass
"Bathers in the Marsh, " Mid Century Dish with Male Nudes Along Laguna Coast
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An especially rare example of Pat and Covey Stewart's ceramic work in Laguna Beach, California, this dish depicts a group of three nude male figures bathing in a marshy area along th...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
Mid Century Italian Murano Glass Decorative Bowl with Vibrant Blue Striping
Located in Bedford Hills, NY
Beautiful hand-blown Murano glass decorative bowl with vibrant blue line details within. Initialed with the letter "M".
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Murano Glass
Mid-century Modern decorative bowls for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Mid-Century Modern decorative bowls for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage decorative bowls created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, folk art and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with glass, murano glass and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Mid-Century Modern decorative bowls made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and North America pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original decorative bowls, popular names associated with this style include Archimede Seguso, Seguso Vetri d'Arte, Barovier&Toso, and Flavio Poli. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for decorative bowls differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $34 and tops out at $46,574 while the average work can sell for $646.
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