Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
RENAISSANCE STYLE
Spanning an era of cultural rebirth in Europe that harkened back to antiquity, the Renaissance was a time of change in design. From the late 1400s to the early 1600s, Rome, Venice and Florence emerged as artistic centers through the expansion of global trade and a humanist belief in the arts being central to society. Antique Renaissance furniture was ornately carved from sturdy woods like walnut, its details standing out against the tapestries and stained glass adorning the walls.
Renaissance chests, which were frequently commissioned for marriages, were often decorated with gilding or painted elements. Those that were known as cassoni were crafted in shapes based on classical sarcophagi. As opposed to the medieval era, when furniture was pared down to the necessities, a wide range of Renaissance chairs, tables and cabinets were created for the home, and the designs regularly referenced ancient Rome.
Large torchères of the Renaissance era that were used as floor lamps were inspired by classical candelabras, while marble surfaces evoked frescoes. The inlaid boxes being imported from the Middle East informed the intarsia technique, which involved varying hues of wood in mosaic-like patterns, such as those by architect Giuliano da Maiano in the Florence Cathedral.
Tapestry-woven cushion covers accented the variety of Renaissance seating — from conversation to study chairs — while bookcases for secular use reflected the migration of culture and knowledge from the church into the home. The aesthetics of the Italian Renaissance later spread to France through the publishing of work by renowned designers, including Hugues Sambin and Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. Centuries later, the 19th-century Renaissance Revival would see a return to this influential style.
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SECOND HALF OF THE 16th CENTURY POLYCHROME MAIOLICA PLATE
Located in Firenze, FI
Splendid plate in polychrome glazed majolica in yellow, blue, green and manganese. The plate has a wavy rim which gives it the name "crespina", and in the center it is adorned with t...
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16th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Maiolica
Hand painted majolica platter in the style of Jacopo Schiavon di Cafaggiolo
By Artistiche Cermiche Fiorentine
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
This beautiful platter in hand painted majolica is a copy of an important piece by renowned Renaissance artist Jacopo Schiavon, from the Tuscan town of Cafaggiolo.
The original is i...
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20th Century Italian Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Ceramic
Madeira Banana Bowl
Located in Hudson, NY
Set your table in fun tropical style with this banana decorated centerpiece from Bordallo Pinheiro. Made from earthenware, this centerpiece features a banana design. It is sure to br...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Earthenware
Heavy 16th Century French Bronze Mortar with Handles, Dated 1587, 109 lbs
Located in Dallas, TX
A large and heavy (it weighs 109 lbs!) example of a traditional French pharmacy bowl, this bronze mortar with handles is from 1587, as seen on the production date beneath the molded ...
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16th Century French Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Metal, Bronze
END OF THE 15th CENTURY SMALL HAND WARM BRAZIER
Located in Firenze, FI
This small hand-warming brazier from the Renaissance era in wrought iron is a handcrafted object of great value, handmade with care and precision. The origin of this object is attrib...
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15th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Wrought Iron
19th Century Ornamental Brass Alms Dish with English Coat of Arms 18.25"
Located in New York, NY
18th Century Ornamental Brass Alms Dish featuring an English coat of arms, measuring approximately 18.25 inches in diameter. This exquisite piece serve...
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18th Century English Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Brass
Large 18th Century, Italian or French White Marble Mortar Phenomenal Patina
Located in Atlanta, GA
Likely Italian or French, 18th century.
An impressive and large mortar carved from a single block of white marble. Showing phenomenal antique patina - this piece was heavily used du...
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18th Century French Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Marble
17th Century Alms Brass Dish, 15"
Located in New York, NY
Large brass circular alms dish having an ornate circular rim with hand tooled decoration, and a shaped dish center with raised flower decoration to the middle. Nuremberg 16th/17th ce...
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17th Century German Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Brass
Antique 18/19th Century Ornamental Brass Alms Dish with Dove Motif (21.75")
Located in New York, NY
Exquisite 19th-century English ornamental brass alms dish, meticulously crafted to serve as a captivating vessel for collecting offerings from congrega...
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19th Century English Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Brass
19th C. Renaissance Gilt Bronze Sculptural Tazza Signed E. Cana 1845-1895 French
By Louis Emile Cana
Located in Germantown, MD
A very richly decorated 19th Century renaissance style gilt bronze and marble Tazza by French artist Louis Emile Cana.
Top dish decorated with multiple embossed wild life birds and a...
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19th Century French Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Large 19th Century Italian Majolica Cantagalli Platter
By Cantagalli
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Italian Cantagalli Faience Polychrome Serving Platter, 19th century
As found Italian Serving platter from Cantagalli. Wonderful example of antiqu...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Majolica, Pottery, Faience, Ceramic
Large Ormolu-Mounted Cut Crystal Dish in Renaissance Taste
Located in Paris, FR
A 20th century cut crystal and gilt bronze dish in Renaissance taste. The circular cup is decorated with cut-diamond patterns. It is set on a baluster-shaped stem that is embellished...
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Early 20th Century French Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
16th Century Italian Maiolica Faience Dish with a Young Man Portrait
Located in Milan, IT
Mid-16th Century Italian Maiolica Dish hand-painted in blue and ocher yellow color with a profile young man portrait in the center. The maiolica col...
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16th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Maiolica
Bronze Pot, 16th Century
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Superb Flemish Renaissance bronze pot from the 16th century.
Superb patina and in very good condition.
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16th Century Belgian Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Bronze
Antique Italian Cantagalli Majolica Polychrome Plaque Plate
By Cantagalli
Located in Bradenton, FL
This is a very rare Cantagalli Italian tin glazed earthenware plate/plaque in beautiful hand painted polychrome colors. It is a scene of a little boy or cherub playing on a drum. It ...
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19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Porcelain
Bronze Mortar, Tuscany, Second Half of 16th Century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Bronze mortar with garlands, flowers and putti - Tuscany , second half of 17th century.
Measures: height 10
diameter : 13 cm
Artisans and healers used mortars for grinding food...
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16th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Bronze
Barovier and Toso 20th Century Italian Wedding Cup in Cobalt Blue Glass Painted
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Barovier and Toso design from Murano Italy. An Italian wedding cup dating to the mid 20th century created in cobalt blue glass with hand painted and gilt decoration. The bell shaped top is painted and decorated with Renaissance inspired painted portrait busts in medallion form of a courting couple in two separate medallions, in between the scenes of a procession of courtiers on horse back and maidens bathing in the fountain of love...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Paint, Glass
Antique Limed Oak Dish or Plate, English, circa 1920
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Lovely limed oak plate or dish.
English 1920s.
The piece has been recently limed to enhance the beautiful grain in the oak.
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1920s English Vintage Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Oak
Majolica Plate Centerpiece Ceramic Wall Dish Hand-Painted Dolphins Deruta Italy
By deBlona
Located in Recanati, IT
Majolica dish hand made and hand-painted in Deruta, Italy, according to the original Renaissance painting technique. The dish is enriched by the presence of four metamorphic dolphin-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Rare Offering Basket or Basin Germany-16th Century in Brass
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Rare basin (We think it was the basin to wash the feet on hollyThursday) in brass
Rare plat of the german renaissance since it is rather a basin which is much rarer than a offering basket...
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16th Century Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Brass
"Temperance" Ewer and Its Basin in Silver Bronze, After François Briot, Xixth Ce
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
ewer and its basin called "Temperance", in silver-plated bronze, in the style of the Renaissance, after the model of François Briot, preserved in the Louvre Museum.
The egg-shaped...
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19th Century French Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Bronze
Antique Limed Oak Tazza. English, Circa 1920
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Lovely limed oak tazza
English 1920s.
The piece has been recently limed to enhance the beautiful grain in the oak.
There has been an old repair to the edge of the dish part. Shown...
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1920s English Vintage Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Oak
Bronze Pharmacy Mortar Italy-17° Century
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Elegant bronze mortar from the 17 century from Italy dated 1630.
Really rare mortar due to his big size.
In very good condition and beautiful patina.
Category
17th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Bronze
Hand Painted Blue Majolica Handles Bowl Centerpiece Ornament Renaissance Deruta
By deBlona
Located in Recanati, IT
This fine majolica centerpiece is made and hand-painted in Deruta, Italy. The Bowl recalls the ancient structure of the Greek cups that were used to mix wate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Vintage Medieval Knights Metal Dish Plate Ashtray by FIA Lyon France
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Decorative plate
Vintage Medieval knights metal dish plate ashtray FIA Lyon France
Stainless steel
Stamped by maker
Measures: 1.13 x 5.13 diameter
Preowned original unrestored vintag...
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1950s Vintage Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Brazier, Copper, Possibly Castile, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Brazier. Copper. Possibly Castile, 16th century.
Brazier made of copper with a circular foot decorated with vertical bands, a low tubular shaft enhanced with a fine roped molding and a semicircular body, with a wide mouth that flares outwards, and two halfrectangle-shaped metal handles with a torso part on the sides. Of the piece. These types of pieces were used both in civil and ecclesiastical interiors with the aim of heating the occupants of the room as much as possible, and their conservation is rare because they are utilitarian elements that were discarded over time or due to be damaged They used to be objects destined for the upper class, and followed the same typologies whether they were destined for a sacristy or a private residence. This case, possibly intended for use in the sacristy, shows a typical typology in the Spanish school of the time. Compare, for example, with the brazier present in The Birth of the Virgin Mary of the Altarpiece assembled around 1520 by Pedro de Guadalupe from Valladolid and found in the church of San Esteban...
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16th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Copper, Other
Large Ceramic Plate Hand Painted Majolica Italy Contemporary Unique 21st century
Located in London, GB
"Orvieto", large plate, 2017, full-fire reduction faience earthenware 52 cm diameter, hand painted unique piece.
Perfect décor for the wall or simply placed at the centre of a table...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Large Italian Majolica Charger, circa 18th Century
Located in Bradenton, FL
A large charger with a complex scene in polychrome glazes. Hand decorated glazed earthenware, 17.5" in diameter. This style of pottery decoration, originating about 1500 in Faenza, Italy, and popular throughout the 16th century, in which paintings comparable in seriousness to Italian Renaissance easel paintings were applied to majolica ware...
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Pottery
Rare Dutch Majolica Plate with Tulip, Early 17th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
A rare Dutch Majolica plate with a decoration of a tulip.
Northern Netherlands, probably made in the city of Rotterdam.
Made 1620 - 1640
Dutch majo...
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Early 17th Century Dutch Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
17th Century Heavy Copper Bowls with Ladle Covered with Tin, Handmade
Located in Vigonza, Padua
17th century heavy copper bowls with ladle covered with tin, handmade
fascinating, antique objects for collectors. The bowl is widely engraved by hand.
Category
17th Century Moroccan Antique Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Tin, Copper
Cast Bronze Copper Flashed Patinated Renaissance Style Charger
Located in Hudson, NY
This charger made as an intentional remake of a famous object is fully embossed on the back as such and contains the maker's name. The charger contains many different scenes from ant...
Category
Early 20th Century European Renaissance Bowls and Baskets
Materials
Copper, Bronze
Renaissance bowls and baskets for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Renaissance bowls and baskets 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 bowls and baskets created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, ceramic and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Renaissance bowls and baskets made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and England 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 Cantagalli, deBlona, Barovier&Toso, and Bottega Vignoli. 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 $100 and tops out at $5,362 while the average work can sell for $1,634.