French Midcentury Vallauris Ceramic Key Holder or Vide Poche, Blue Glazed

French midcentury black matte ceramic key holder/vide-poche. Good quality craftsmanship. Measures: 4 7/8" diameter x 2" high.   

A beautiful Art Nouveau Gouda pottery ashtray. Wonderfully colorful floral hand painted design, from Holland. This well made decorative object can also be used as a key holder/vide poche. Signed Dalia Konin Klyk, Coedewaalem, Gouda, Holland and numbered on bottom. Measures: 4 3/4 in. diameter x 2 3/8 in. high Other interesting information about this form of pottery: There isn’t a factory called Gouda Pottery; the pottery is called that because the main factories were in Gouda. Gouda (pronounced ‘how-da’) is the generic term we use for all the pottery factories in Holland – all Dutch pottery other than Delftware, that is. The area around Gouda had clay to make pots, which is why most of the factories settled there. A lot of the clay also came from England. The Dutch started producing clay pipes...

Beautiful English Wedgwood Jasperware ashtray or key holder/vide poche in “Wedgwood Blue” features a repeating motif of white, high relief acanthus ...

Bronze key holder or vide poche, marked from Hong Kong. Good quality craftsmanship. Measures: 5 1/8" Diameter x 1 1/2" Height  

An elegant glazed ceramic vide poche with green and gold decoration.

Superb petit ceramic vide poche by Gabriel Fourmaintraux Intense black glaze, hand decorated with distinctive red, yellow and green enamel motifs Circa 1950 Height 1.5 inch, Width ...

French Art Nouveau Bronze card tray or Pin Tray, Vide - Poche, 1920s This absolutely adorable card tray or pin tray, Vide - Poche, is made of bronze ...

A French glazed ceramic vide poche. c.1960’s