French Bowls and Baskets

French ceramic dish. Triple and shell-shaped form. Turquoise and cream-colored glaze. Ca. 1940s. Marked. Perfect condition. Dimensions: D 30.0 cm. x H 3.5 cm.

Rare bin from the square in front of the Eiffel Tower. This real eye-catcher made of high-quality materials such as metal and brass top with the Eiffel tower logo. This bin is one of the few that come from the square around the Eiffel tower. This conversation piece can still be used perfectly as a rubbish bin...

Decorate a wall or a cabinet top full of flowers with this antique basket. Crafted in Normandy or Burgundy circa 1920, the large grape basket dresse...

A large Louis XVI Style French Silvered and Gilt Bronze Putti Mounted crystal centerpiece, Marked Baccarat, from the 1800s. The crystal centerpiece i...

Stunning very large French mid-century black matte and glazed green ceramic bowl, signed. This mid-century ceramic piece features magnificent colors of various shades of glazed green...

French 18th century silver “Rafraîchissoir” or “Verrière”, circa 1750-1760 Dimensions: 12.75" W x 8" D x 4" H.

1970s French Sculpted Wood Ashtray – Two-Tone Design in Black & Brown with Rich Patina Description: This elegant French ashtray, crafted in the 1970s, is a refined example of functi...

Carved Red Stone Bowl. France, circa 1930.

A ceramic cup with white, green, brown, gold, orange, black glazes decoration. Signed under the base " JBreugnot". Circa 1970. Unique piece. Perfect original conditions.

Antique handmade wooden trough or bowl, 19th century. This is a rare antique handmade wooden trough or bowl, which can be used for decoration or as a (fruit) bowl or magazine holder...

A very beautiful early 18th century riveted copper vessel or bowl with an iron handle. A charming and warm accent piece for any kitchen, living area or bath.

A beautiful large Art Deco silver plated pedestal bowl. A three tiered concave bowl sits on a cone base of moulded ribbed wood finished with a silver plated surround. 
The interior ...

Superb large bowl made of beautiful thick transparent glass with green and blue highlights. Its generous dimensions make it a majestic fruit bowl or centerpiece. It has a beautiful d...

A large Accolay French ceramic dish with palest of chartreuse green heavily crackled glaze. This dish has an undulating organic rim edge. An atypical color for Accolay makes this d...

Enameled metal plate designed by Mathieu Matégot. Manufactured by Artimeta (Holland), circa 1950. Lacquered perforated metal with original paint and rattan details. We offer fre...

Silver plated metal and crystal bowl, Art Nouveau period, 1900. An Art Nouveau period silver-plated metal and crystal bowl, 1900. H: 18cm, W: 44cm, D: 16cm

A beautiful, handcut crystal bowl with a band of frosted crystal shaped like a crown. Like many of Cristal Benito's glass and crystal creations, this striking piece is rooted in an e...

Fine Art Deco Daum art glass acid etched blue vase/bowl, circa 1920's. Made in Nancy, France and is signed on the lower edge. Has the "Cross of Lorraine" mark. Wonderful design and f...

Ormolu perfume burner or potpourri holder that serves as a striking table centerpiece. The openwork lid is adorned with palmettes, foliage, small flower...

A wonderful French gilt bronze and cut crystal ormolu mounted pedestal bowl in the manner of Baccarat.

Late 18th Century Small Limoges Enamel Salt Bowl, decorated with a pink ground with a yellow trellis pattern and hand-painted floral motifs (roses, blue flowers, green leaves), a met...

Charming Hand Painted Victorian Pin Dish from the late 19th Century. Hand painted dish is mounted on to a bronze floraliform stem set into an albaster marble base. France 1880's.

Rare and elegant Art Deco white metal and turned wood tazza by Maison Argental produced in Paris in the 1930s stamped to the base.

Porcelaine de Paris. "Aurore Tropicale". Two large porcelain bowls decorated with flowers and pomegranates. 1980s. Measures: 25 x 8.5 cm. In ex...

Inspired by the movement of plants and flowers, Art Nouveau is a decorative style associated with art and architecture during the late 19th early 20th centuries. Sometime after 1900, the undulating lines associated with Art Nouveau began to disappear and were replaced by geometrical shapes. That places the crafting of this silvered bronze table...

Doré bronze crystal oval bowl centerpiece ormolu bows filigree swag paw feet Measures: 17" L x 6" W x 8" H.

Sculptural catchall in the style of Matégot and Georges Jouve. Iron frame with circular base and circular top. Yellow and green ceramic dish sits in...

Porcelaine de Paris (Décor - Chasses Royales). Hand-decorated porcelain bowl/ashtray with cheetahs and gold decoration. Approx. 1980s. In perfect condition. Marked. Dimensions: ...

Vintage Casino Monte Carlo wine tester in Pewter with the fleur de Lys as a handle and the Monaco flag inside the bowl marked with the Casino Monte Carl...

French Faience Handled Server Platter HB Quimper Circa 1940.

Early 20th century Art Nouveau French tetard sterling wash basin and jug . The silver pedestal jug is decorated with exterior foliate swags and scrolls design details with multi tiered ruffed edge decoration . The handle is also designed with foliate decoration including pussy willows and terminates in a forward facing dolphins head surrounded by leaves . The matching pedestal wash basin base...

Vintage Limoges hand painted porcelain yellow floral egg trinket box, France. Midcentury. Marked.

Vintage dish or vide poche dish in the shape of a leaf, made of multi-coloured glazed ceramic, by Vallauris, France, 1960s-70s. In good but used vintage condition, a chip from the t...

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...

Opaline bowl with gilt bronze mounting, 19th century, Napoleon III period. A Napoleon III period cup, 19th century, in two-coloured opaline, gilt brass mount. H: 31cm, W: 40cm, D: ...

Beautiful mid century bowl by the well known artist / designer Pol Chambost . This plate in fish shape maybe was part of large serving set .

Set of 4 Juliette Derel decorative bowls

French aesthetic movement patinated and gilt bronze figural center bowl/basket, third quarter 19th century, formed as a large stylized woven ...

A woven ceramic bowl from Vallauris by Clement and Jerome Massier. Marked by les Fréres Massier on the bottom.

We are proud to offer a rare example of a mid-20th Century French money couriers leather and brass carrying bag. Made from a high quality dark tan leather, brass text riveted (Courie...

Art deco cup by French artist Claudius Linossier from the 1930s/40s using the brassware technique specific to the artist. Structure in hammered metal. Very beautiful vintage conditio...

A black ceramic catchall bowl from Vallauris, dating from the 1950s. Crafted with exceptional skill, this rare piece in the shape of an exotic leaf brings a touch of elegance and ori...

Substantial glass catchall / ashtray with a leather lid in the style of French designer Jacques Adnet. Thick frosted glass body with a lid made of black leather with contrast stitch...

An Early 3 Pc Sevres green art glass Lithyalin Marmorietes cache pot with a pair of flanking square vases. The center piece measuring 10 inches long, 5 inches deep, 3 inches high, t...

French cloisonné swan key dish catch all or ashtray France, early 20th century Beautiful crafted piece has wonderful shape and design Rich neutral ton...

Glass Lalique Thistle Bowl. No damage perfect condition. Size: 4.75h x 10.25diaSigned Lalique France. Besutiufl design and very decorative.

Boris Veisbrot (1903-2011) for Limoges, France. Enamel bowl in green tones, with air bubbles. Mid-20th century. Perfect condition. Signed. Dimensions: D 14.8 cm x H 3.5 cm.

At just over two feet long, this gilt bronze jardiniere was produced in France, circa 1850, at the end of the Neoclassical period. Neoclassical ...

Jardiniere Bowl "Cluny" made in glass with grey patina by René Lalique in 1944. Stamped "R.LALIQUE FRANCE" signature on bottom. Perfect condition. Rare model. Dimensions : 34,5 cm...

A stunning antique French woven bronze basket with handprinted porcelain plaque centre. Beautifully and delicately constructed, this basket is a perfect a...

Baccarat, France. Art Deco serving dish in clear art glass with gold edge. 1930s / 40s. Measures: 25 x 18.5 x 3 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped.

A tactile dish or vide-poche in carved walnut timber by Odile Noll (1921-2014), signed. French, c. 1950s.

Art deco cup by French artist Claudius Linossier from the 1930s/40s using the brassware technique specific to the artist. Structure in hammered copper in red tones decorated with a g...

Baccarat bowl and ostrich vase with etched decoration, foot in pressed glass with dolphin decoration in frosted glass. Manufactured in France, circa 1920. Dimensions: Diameter: 11.8...

An important tripod bowl by François Goalec France 1960s. A rare piece of this Brittany artist. Nice birds drawing. Signed and dated under. In good condition. Very light lack of...

Signed Désiré Attarge Fit and F. Barbedienne Paris Pair of silvered bronze cups, chased by Désiré Attarge after an antique model (Ist Century), known as the Coupe d’Alésia or Cantha...

'Rooster' c 1955 Jean Lurçat for Sant Vincens. Glazed ceramic 21cm diameter Inscribed 'Dessin J.Lurçat, Sant-Vicens' VD 2' Public collections include: Detroit Museum of Fine Arts,...

A beautiful pair of antique Baccarat bronze figural compotes with cut crystal bowls. Circa 1900, featuring cherub mounts on a bronze pedestal, these st...

Green and black glazed ceramic cup by Gisèle Buthod Garçon. Raku fired. Artist monogram under the base. Circa 1980-1990. H : 3.1’ x 11.8’ inches.

A very fine 19th century French Empire gilt bronze plateau. Fine cherubs and classical details