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Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

AESTHETIC MOVEMENT

In 1880, polymath designer William Morris declared: “If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” His words encapsulated the Aesthetic Movement, which prized beauty above all and blurred the lines between fine art and the decorative arts, particularly through lavishly crafted furniture pieces.

The Aesthetic Movement, whose major proponents included author Oscar Wilde, flourished from the 1860s to the 1880s and was mostly popular in England and the United States. Design expositions like the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition in Philadelphia, as well as the publishing of how-to books for interior design, helped disseminate Aesthetic Movement bedroom furniture, serveware, coffee tables and other items, especially to the middle class.

The establishment of new art museums, art clubs and a rising passion for collecting at the time contributed to a growing appreciation for art. Morris’s founding of Morris & Co. in 1862 and the commercializing of this “cult of beauty” by the Liberty store in London, starting in the late 19th century, further disseminated the idea of a domestic space that was thoughtfully and floridly designed.

Leading Aesthetic Movement furniture designers included E.W. Godwin, who drew on Japanese influences and whose work reflected a wider enthusiasm for imported East Asian art. British designer Christopher Dresser created textiles, ceramics and more that were also inspired by Japanese decorative art but were representative of additional diverse design sources that ranged from Egypt to Mexico.

The Aesthetic Movement’s eclecticism resulted in dazzling interiors. Japanese fans were positioned on Renaissance-inspired cabinets with brass hardware, while mantels made of rich walnut or finely carved ebonized wood and adorned with painted Minton tiles mingled with cast-iron chairs against a backdrop of floral wallpaper. In 1881, in New York City, stenciled checkerboard motifs and painted floral murals could be found under an opalescent glass chandelier in a luxurious dressing room designed by German émigré cabinetmaker-decorator George Alfred Schastey. Amid the rise of the industrial age, the style’s promotion of art in everyday life would inform the Arts and Crafts Movement and Art Nouveau.

Find a collection of antique Aesthetic Movement seating, tables, decorative objects and other furniture and antiques on 1stDibs.

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Style: Aesthetic Movement
Just Andersen Bronze Bowl, Aesthetic Movement, Denmark, c.1910
Just Andersen Bronze Bowl, Aesthetic Movement, Denmark, c.1910

Just Andersen Bronze Bowl, Aesthetic Movement, Denmark, c.1910

By Just Andersen

Located in London, GB

A large alloyed bronze patinated dish bowl stamped Just Andersen Denmark and numbered 1736 X. Some wear to the patination which should be visible in the photos but otherwise a larger...

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1910s Danish Vintage Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

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Brass, Bronze

Rare Majolica Box with Oysters and Snail Choisy Le Roi, circa 1880
Rare Majolica Box with Oysters and Snail Choisy Le Roi, circa 1880

Rare Majolica Box with Oysters and Snail Choisy Le Roi, circa 1880

By Choisy-le-Roi

Located in Austin, TX

Rare Majolica box with oysters and snail signed Hippolyte Boulenger Choisy Le Roi, circa 1880. Measures: Height / 8", length / 15" on 6.5".

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1880s French Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

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Ceramic, Faience, Majolica

Aesthetic Movement Shrimp & Shell Hand-Painted Ceramic Dish signed Limoges
Aesthetic Movement Shrimp & Shell Hand-Painted Ceramic Dish signed Limoges

Aesthetic Movement Shrimp & Shell Hand-Painted Ceramic Dish signed Limoges

By Limoges

Located in New York, NY

This remarkable Aesthetic Movement ceramic shell dish, crafted and signed by Limoges, France, circa 1900, is a stunning example of artistry and craftsmanship inspired by nature. Cele...

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Early 1900s French Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

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Ceramic

Acanthus Leaf Green Glazed English Majolica Pedestal Vide-Poche
Acanthus Leaf Green Glazed English Majolica Pedestal Vide-Poche

Acanthus Leaf Green Glazed English Majolica Pedestal Vide-Poche

Located in Philadelphia, PA

A green majolica glazed pedestal vide-poche with an acanthus leaf pattern, England circa 1875-1880. French for ’empty pockets’, the vide-poche is a small bowl or container kept in...

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Late 19th Century English Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

Materials

Earthenware

Decorative Vintage Woven Basket after Mimura Chikuho
Decorative Vintage Woven Basket after Mimura Chikuho

Decorative Vintage Woven Basket after Mimura Chikuho

By Mimura Chikuho

Located in Chula Vista, CA

For your consideration, a vintage woven basket, likely a tribal artifact from Northern Luzon, Philippines or a similar style of Chinese woven container. Unmarked. No label present f...

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1970s Japanese Vintage Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

Materials

Cane

19th Century English Majolica Fans Dish
19th Century English Majolica Fans Dish

19th Century English Majolica Fans Dish

Located in Austin, TX

19th Century English Majolica Fan Shape Dish.

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1880s British Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

Materials

Ceramic, Faience, Majolica

Vintage Brass Shopping Bag
Vintage Brass Shopping Bag

Vintage Brass Shopping Bag

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

This captivating vintage brass sculpture is a sophisticated nod to the Pop Art movement, transforming a humble everyday object into a high-shine decorative statement. Meticulously cr...

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Mid-20th Century American Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

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Brass

Antique Aesthetic Period Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver Footed Bowl
Antique Aesthetic Period Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver Footed Bowl

Antique Aesthetic Period Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver Footed Bowl

By Tiffany & Co.

Located in Philadelphia, PA

A fine signed Aesthetic Period silver bowl. By Tiffany & Co. In sterling silver. In a fluted form with a flared foot. Marked to the base. Simply wonderful Tiffany Aesthetic per...

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Late 19th Century Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

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Sterling Silver

Italian Hand-Painted Ceramic Lemon Majolica Plate Signed, Mid-Century
Italian Hand-Painted Ceramic Lemon Majolica Plate Signed, Mid-Century

Italian Hand-Painted Ceramic Lemon Majolica Plate Signed, Mid-Century

Located in Oklahoma City, OK

A beautifully hand-painted Italian ceramic lemon dish, featuring a vibrant trio of sun-ripened lemons nestled among deep green foliage, framed by a stylized border in rich forest ton...

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20th Century Italian Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

Materials

Ceramic

English Aesthetic Oak Bucket
English Aesthetic Oak Bucket

English Aesthetic Oak Bucket

Located in Essex, MA

With brass handle and liner. Hexagonal form with incised carved decoration. Toupie feet.

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1890s English Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

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Oak

19th Century Ferdinand Barbedienne Tazza Dish in Gilt Bronze & Enamel
19th Century Ferdinand Barbedienne Tazza Dish in Gilt Bronze & Enamel

19th Century Ferdinand Barbedienne Tazza Dish in Gilt Bronze & Enamel

By Ferdinand Barbedienne

Located in Lincoln, GB

Artwork by Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892) Tazza Dish The enamel work has an Oriental decorative style with ottoman/ middle estern motifs The tazza / dish is supported by a nicel...

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19th Century Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

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Brass, Enamel

Oval Tray Painted by Theodor Phillipsen (1840-1920), Denmark C.1870.
Oval Tray Painted by Theodor Phillipsen (1840-1920), Denmark C.1870.

Oval Tray Painted by Theodor Phillipsen (1840-1920), Denmark C.1870.

Located in Valby, 84

Oval Tray Painted by Theodor Philipsen (1840–1920), Denmark, ca. 1870s. Tray in a oval form in black lacquered metal with gilt line border, the interior painted by the artist in oil...

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1870s Danish Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

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Metal

Sterling Silver " Lilly of the Valley " Bon Bon Dish by Whiting Division
Sterling Silver " Lilly of the Valley " Bon Bon Dish by Whiting Division

Sterling Silver " Lilly of the Valley " Bon Bon Dish by Whiting Division

By Whiting Manufacturing Company

Located in Huntington, NY

Sterling Silver " Lilly of the Valley " Bon Bon Dish by Whiting Division Whiting had small production but produced exceptional handmade silverware in relatively small quantities. This Company's most important designer was Charles Osborne...

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Early 20th Century American Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

Materials

Sterling Silver

Stevens & Williams Aesthetic Movement Jewel Pattern Glass Bowl
Stevens & Williams Aesthetic Movement Jewel Pattern Glass Bowl

Stevens & Williams Aesthetic Movement Jewel Pattern Glass Bowl

By Stevens & Williams

Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire

A fine quality aesthetic movement English glass bowl decorated in a Jewel pattern by renowned Stourbridge glass makers Stevens & Williams and dated 1886. The crystal glass bowl is of...

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1880s English Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

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Crystal

c. 1880-1900 American Brilliant Period Cut Glass Butter Tub
c. 1880-1900 American Brilliant Period Cut Glass Butter Tub

c. 1880-1900 American Brilliant Period Cut Glass Butter Tub

Located in Chapel Hill, NC

Circa 1880-1900 American brilliant period cut glass butter tub. One point partial loss. 5.5" x 5 1/8" x 3 5/8" h.

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Late 19th Century American Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

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Cut Glass

English Greenware Majolica Twig Handled Leaf Shaped Server or Vide-Poche
English Greenware Majolica Twig Handled Leaf Shaped Server or Vide-Poche

English Greenware Majolica Twig Handled Leaf Shaped Server or Vide-Poche

Located in Philadelphia, PA

A majolica green glazed leaf pattern server, England, circa 1880. A serrate edged leaf shaped platter with an open work twig form handle. Beautiful mold work showing smaller branc...

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Late 19th Century English Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

Materials

Earthenware

Minton English Majolica Yellow Trinket Basket Vide-Poche
Minton English Majolica Yellow Trinket Basket Vide-Poche

Minton English Majolica Yellow Trinket Basket Vide-Poche

By Minton

Located in Philadelphia, PA

A Super-Scarce English majolica glazed trinket basket, attributed to Minton, circa 1880s. With amazing color and texture, the delicate little earthenware basket is glazed in a deep...

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Late 19th Century English Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

Materials

Earthenware

George Jones Palissy English Majolica Lobster Pâté Basketweave Covered Tureen
George Jones Palissy English Majolica Lobster Pâté Basketweave Covered Tureen

George Jones Palissy English Majolica Lobster Pâté Basketweave Covered Tureen

By George Jones

Located in Philadelphia, PA

A majolica Lobster covered pâté tureen by George Jones, Stoke-on-Trent, England, circa 1870. A scarce and highly desirable piece with collectors, a Palissy style oval basketweave ...

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19th Century English Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

Materials

Earthenware

Villeroy & Boch Majolica Plate in a Footed Wire Basket with Heart Shaped Handles
Villeroy & Boch Majolica Plate in a Footed Wire Basket with Heart Shaped Handles

Villeroy & Boch Majolica Plate in a Footed Wire Basket with Heart Shaped Handles

By Villeroy & Boch

Located in Philadelphia, PA

An 19th century basket made up of a hand formed twisted and looped wire holder set with a Majolica glazed plate at the center. The plate shows a geometric pattern glazed in earth t...

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Late 19th Century German Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

Materials

Wire

Vintage Original Studio Pottery Match Strike Set
Vintage Original Studio Pottery Match Strike Set

Vintage Original Studio Pottery Match Strike Set

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

This exceptional two-piece studio pottery set is a masterclass in Brutalist texture and functional design, celebrating the raw beauty of hand-thrown ceramics. The set features a dist...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

Materials

Pottery

Antique Gorham Aesthetic Sterling Silver Calla Lily Basket 1874
Antique Gorham Aesthetic Sterling Silver Calla Lily Basket 1874

Antique Gorham Aesthetic Sterling Silver Calla Lily Basket 1874

By Gorham Manufacturing Company

Located in New York, NY

Aesthetic sterling silver basket. Made by Gorham in Providence in 1874. Oval bowl on domed foot. Strap handle buckled to loop mounts threaded with calla lilies that wrap around baske...

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1870s American Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

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Sterling Silver

Aesthetic Movement Enameled Plate Attributed to Elkington and A. Willms, c. 1875
Aesthetic Movement Enameled Plate Attributed to Elkington and A. Willms, c. 1875

Aesthetic Movement Enameled Plate Attributed to Elkington and A. Willms, c. 1875

By W. Albert Willms, Elkington & Co.

Located in PARIS, FR

Important tray made in gilded bronze and “cloisonné” enamel attributed to Elkington and Willms. Ornamented with a centering polychrome enameled peacock plaque, made of very high standard quality, mounted on a gilt-bronze dish, decorated in relief with Japanese Nô theater masks. The great Birmingham firm of Elkingtons, was largely the creation of George Richards Elkington (1800-1865), who worked from 1824 in Birmingham as a manufacturer of silver-mounted scent bottles. By 1829 the business had expanded sufficiently for a branch to have been established in London. In the late 1830s the Elkingtons began making experiments to apply the principles of electro-metallurgy to gilding and plating with silver and in 1840 the patent was at last taken out. Elkingtons owed their rise to a position amongst the most important silversmiths of the country to their exploitation of this new process and the two of the most famous designers then employed, both of them French, Albert Wilms (1827-1899) and Morel-Ladeuil (1820-1888), who helped to make Elkingtons’ reputation with their elaborate exhibition pieces. Albert Willms was apprenticed as modeler and engraver to Klagman, Dieterle and Constant in Paris before working for Morel & Co. in London in 1848. On his return to Paris he was employed by the great Parisian silversmiths including Christofle and Froment-Meurice, for whom he designed pieces to be presented at the 1855 Universal Exhibition in Paris. It was during this period that he joined the firm of Elkington in London as head decorator. Elkington was soon to become one of the first to produce refined pieces in “champlevé” enamel in the Chinese and Japanese styles, which were presented with great success at the London Universal Exhibition in 1862 (see Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture at the International Exhibition 1862, J.B. Waring, London, 1863, III, pl. 211). Willms’ “champlevé” enamels could not be compared, however, with the delicate “cloisonné” enamels exhibited by Japan at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1867. This explains why Elkington adapted the ancient Japanese technique to produce pieces according to European taste and custom. Followings the 1867 Exhibition all the major European artists rivaled in ingenuity for the 1873 Universal Exhibition in Vienna. In London Albert Willms presented his luxurious vases and cups in “cloisonné” enamel for Elkington (see Illustrations of Art Manufacturers in the Precious Metals exhibited by Elkington & Co., Inventors, Patentees and Manufactures of electroplate, 1873), whilst in Paris, Ferdinand Thesmar (1843-1912) produced in the workshops of Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892) a tray decorated with a golden pheasant in “cloisonné” enamel on copper...

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1870s English Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

Materials

Enamel, Bronze

19th Century Silver-plated Metal And Oak Tray
19th Century Silver-plated Metal And Oak Tray

19th Century Silver-plated Metal And Oak Tray

Located in Brussels, Brussels

a fine 19th-century English silver-plated and oak tray. A beautiful piece with two handles. Superb oak with a magnificent patina and a central silver-plated medallion. In perfect con...

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19th Century British Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

Materials

Oak

Aesthetic Period & Design English Sterling Silver Bowl, London 1879
Aesthetic Period & Design English Sterling Silver Bowl, London 1879

Aesthetic Period & Design English Sterling Silver Bowl, London 1879

By Martin, Hall & Co. Ltd.

Located in London, London

Hallmarked in London in 1879 by Martin, Hall & Co., this stunning, Antique Sterling Silver Bowl, is in the Aesthetic taste, featuring cast and applied floral and butterfly detailing,...

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1870s English Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

Materials

Sterling Silver

Antique Aesthetic Movement Bronze Basket, Bird Design, France, 1880
Antique Aesthetic Movement Bronze Basket, Bird Design, France, 1880

Antique Aesthetic Movement Bronze Basket, Bird Design, France, 1880

Located in Montreal, QC

An American Aesthetic Movement Basket, naturalistically modeled as a bird perched on a a leafy twig, above a shallow dish simulating cloth, decorated with gilt and silvered leaves an...

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Late 19th Century French Antique Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

Materials

Bronze

Vintage Boho Bali Dulang Painted Wooden Offering Tray
Vintage Boho Bali Dulang Painted Wooden Offering Tray

Vintage Boho Bali Dulang Painted Wooden Offering Tray

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

This exquisite vintage Balinese dulang is a soulful celebration of Indonesian folk art and island tradition. Traditionally used for ceremonial offerings, this hand-carved wooden pede...

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Late 20th Century Indonesian Aesthetic Movement Bowls and Baskets

Materials

Wood, Paint

Aesthetic Movement bowls and baskets for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Aesthetic Movement bowls and baskets for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 19th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage bowls and baskets created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with ceramic, earthenware and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Aesthetic Movement bowls and baskets made in a specific country, there are Europe, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original bowls and baskets, popular names associated with this style include Doulton Lambeth, Royal Worcester, Brownfield and Sons , and Charles Frederick Hancock. 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 bowls and baskets differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,800 and tops out at $1,800 while the average work can sell for $1,800.