Walter Sullivan Roche Sculptural Ceramic Ashtray / Vide-Poche, c.1955

Robert Maxwell Ceramic & Crackle Glass Vide-Poche, California, c.1970.

Murano Sommerso Amber Glass Block Bowl / Vide Poche / Catchall / Ashtray, Italy, 1970's.

Eye-catching terracotta glazed ceramic round ashtray with hand painted clock design, Spain, 1960s. Manufactured by Alfaraz workshop/studio at Madri...

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...