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Material: Majolica
Art Nouveau French Majolica Planter De Bruyn Fives Lille, 1890s
By Fives-Lille
Located in ASNIÈRES-SUR-SEINE, FR
Superb majolica jardinière / centerpiece Art Nouveau.
This jardinière is not only a functional item, but also a work of art, reflecting the exquisite crafmanship of Fives Lille.
Category
1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
$331 Sale Price
20% Off
Sarregumines Majolica Eagle Bowl
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Sarreguemines Majolica centrepiece bowl which features eagle handles at either end, the wings along the sides. Colouration: turquoise, cobalt blue...
Category
1880s French Other Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
Majolica Stork Vase Delphin Massier, circa 1890
Located in Austin, TX
Elegant and rare Majolica stork with a bamboo vase signed Delphin Massier, circa 1890.
The Massier are known for the quality of their unique enamels an...
Category
1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Vallauris Yellow White Brown Ceramic Fat Lava Round Bowl / Ashtray, 1950s
By Vallauris
Located in Barcelona, ES
French Mid-Century Vallauris ashtray / bowl in glazed ceramic.
Beautiful fat lava glazed ceramic ashtray in yellow, amber, white and brown colors. Manufactured by Vallauris. France, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Handpainted German Bauhaus Era Pottery Jug Vase - Suprematist Art Deco Design
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This unique vintage handpainted pottery jug vase showcases a striking Art Deco Bauhaus design with strong Suprematist-inspired motifs. Crafted in Germany around 1920, this modernist ...
Category
1920s German Bauhaus Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Late 17th-Early 18th Century Italian Majolica Bowl
Located in Hudson, NY
This good sized bowl is a great example of the majolica wares produced in Italy throughout the 15th, 16th, 17, and 18th centuries. Humble and simple but highly decorative and enterta...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
French White Terracotta Majolica Rabbit Bavent, circa 1890
By Bavent
Located in Austin, TX
Small French white terracotta Majolica rabbit Bavent, circa 1890.
(Normandy).
Measures: Length / 8 inches, height / 6 ...
Category
1890s French Rustic Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta, Majolica
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Majolica Fish Sealife Platter Vallauris, circa 1950
By Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica sealife platter Vallauris, circa 1950.
High relief of 2 fishs, seaweeds, lemon, starfish, shells, crab, oyster.
Nautical style.
Measure: 9.3 diameter.
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Ceramic Moon Jar by Bottega Vignoli (40cm diameter) Hand-Painted Majolica Italy
Located in London, GB
Mediterranea moon jar, Hand-Painted Majolica with full-fire reduction firing, 40 cm diameter. Unique piece.
Availble in the following diam. sizes: 40cm / 30cm / 25cm
Bottega Vigno...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
C.1890 Majolica Rooster Vase Choisy Le Roi by Carrier Belleuse
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica rooster vase signed Carrier Belleuse for the manufacture of Choisy le Roi, circa 1875.
Very rare colors.
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (born Albert-Ernest Carrier de Belleuse; 12 June 1824 – 4 June 1887) was a French sculptor. He was one of the founding members of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and was made an officer of the Legion of Honour.
At the end of 19th century, Choisy le roi was one of the most important ceramics...
Category
1890s French Country Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Faience, Majolica
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Large French Pottery Majolica Pheasant Tureen circa 1930
Located in Austin, TX
Large French Pottery Majolica Pheasant Tureen circa 1930.
Category
1930s French Rustic Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica, Pottery
$384 Sale Price
20% Off
Italian Majolica Pharmacy Jar
Located in Bradenton, FL
Late 18th century Italian Majolica Polychrome Pharmacy Jar or Albarello, dated 1777. These jars were use in apothecaries to hold medicinal herbs, powders...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Classical Roman Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
Majolica George Jones Fox Serving Tray circa 1869
By George Jones
Located in Austin, TX
Elegant pink Majolica serving dish decorated with a three green vine leaves, the handle formed as a fox peering into the bowl with its tail appearing on the mottled underside signed ...
Category
1860s English Victorian Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$2,240 Sale Price
22% Off
19th Century Italian Majolica Fountain Body/Vase
Located in Dallas, TX
This colorful antique Italian Majolica vase dates to the 1800s. This type of pottery was first produced during the Italian Renaissance, and it often depicted historical and mythologi...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
Majolica Fish Sealife Platter Vallauris, circa 1950
By Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica sealife platter Vallauris, circa 1950.
High relief of fish, seaweeds and shells.
Nautical style.
Measure: 9.3" diameter.
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$560 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Majolica Rooster Vase Delphin Massier
Located in Austin, TX
Antique Majolica rooster with leaves, corn and wild rose vase signed Delphin Massier, circa 1890.
The Massier produced roosters in a big range of sizes, this is the medium size. The...
Category
1890s French Rustic Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic, Faience
$2,320 Sale Price
38% Off
Delphin Massier Majolica Cockerel/Rooster Vase
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Delphin Massier Majolica figural vase which features a cockerel/rooster stood in front of a vase, which is modelled in the form of corn. Colouration: yellow, pink, teal blue, are pre...
Category
1890s Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
Rare Majolica Orchid Jardiniere Delphin Massier, Circa 1890
Located in Austin, TX
Rare Majolica Orchid Jardiniere attributed to Delphin Massier, circa 1890.
Measures: W / 17 inches , H / 8.3 inches.
The Massier family are known f...
Category
1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
$3,040 Sale Price
20% Off
Large French Majolica Bird and Snake Jardinière, circa 1890
Located in Austin, TX
Large French 19th century Majolica jardinière in a shape of wood box decorated with leaves, on the front a bird with his nest, a snake looking on the nest with eggs...
Category
1890s French French Provincial Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic, Faience, Pottery
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Glazed Ceramic Gurgle Fish Jug Pitcher by Vallauris, 1950s
By Vallauris
Located in Barcelona, ES
Oversized Mid-Century Modernist glazed ceramic gurgling fish water jug / pitcher. Manufactured by Vallauris, France, 1950s
Eye-catching hand painted brown, orange and blue-green large Majolica ceramic vase, fish glug jug...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic
Antique Majolica Jardinière by Gustave de Bruyn Fives Lille Cherubs Lions Cobalt
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This Majolica jardinière is richly decorated, featuring a deep cobalt blue glaze as the base color. The sides are adorned with cherubs and lion heads in golden and brown tones, refle...
Category
Early 1900s French Renaissance Revival Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Vintage Large Italian Majolica Ceramic Sitting Cat Kitten Figurine
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Large ceramic sculpture features tabby cat or kitten, sitting with its head turned to a side. The figurine is decorated with majolica glaze with hand-painted black markings on white...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica, Pottery
Antique French Majolica Jardinière Onnaing Tiger Monkey Jungle Cache Pot Planter
By Onnaing
Located in Shreveport, LA
Antique French Majolica Jardinière Onnaing Tiger Monkey Jungle Cache Pot Planter.
Direct from France, a gorgeous 19th century antique French majolica jardinière or cache pot!
The ca...
Category
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
Vintage Italian Ceramic Animal Figurine Turkey Porcelain Bird Figure Tureen
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
Mid century tall Italian animal figurine Ceramic decorative Turkey Tureen with ladle Vitrine object
Material: porcelain, ceramic, tin glazed earthenware...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Majolica
Sculpture Giant Amphora Vase Majolica Hand Painted Four Seasons Art Nouveau
Located in Recanati, IT
Majestic amphora in glazed majolica, handmade and hand painted in central Italy. On the amphora are represented, in great detail, the four seasons personified by graceful women surro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Nouveau Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Majolica Morning Glory Vase Jerome Massier, circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
Rare Majolica morning glory vase Jerome Massier, circa 1900.
The Massier family are known for the quality of their unique enamels and paintings. They produ...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
French Majolica Large Urns- A Pair
Located in Downingtown, PA
French Majolica Large Urns,
A Pair,
Circa 1870-90
The pair of French large majolica flower urns are each raised on four leaf-shaped feet. The urns are of ...
Category
1870s French Arts and Crafts Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
$7,500 / set
Majolica Fish Sealife Platter Vallauris, circa 1950
By Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica sealife platter Vallauris, circa 1950.
High relief of 2 fishs, seaweeds, garlic.
Nautical style.
8.5 inches diameter
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$440 Sale Price
20% Off
French Majolica Grapes Basket Tureen Sarreguemines, circa 1920
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica grapes basket tureen signed Sarreguemines, circa 1920.
Category
1920s French Country Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$384 Sale Price
20% Off
Bauhaus Era Ceramic Bonsai Planter by Eva Zeisel Schramberg Art Deco Avantgarde
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This exceptional Bauhaus era ceramic bonsai planter or cachepot was designed by the renowned designer Eva Zeisel and produced by the Schramberger Majolika Manufaktur (SMF) in Germany...
Category
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Polychrome Glazed Majolica Camel Sculpture / Plant Stand / Garden Seat
Located in New York, NY
Vintage polychrome glazed seated ceremonial processional Indian camel
sculpture may also be enjoyed as a plant stand or garden seat.
Category
1980s Vietnamese Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
Very Rare Villeroy Boch / Mettlach Jardiniere on Flower Columns, 1890
Located in Handewitt, DE
Pair of very rare Villeroy Boch / Mettlach jardiniere on flower columns circa .1890. Richly decorated with ornaments, heads and colors. Very good quality...
Category
19th Century German Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
$11,999 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Pair of German Majolica Lady And Gent Figures
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Pair of German Majolica figurals which feature a well dressed lady and gentleman, walking a dog. Coloration: blue, cream, turquoise, are predominant. Bea...
Category
1880s German Victorian Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
$1,512 / set
Flower Vase, Early Art Deco, Blue Yellow Run Glaze, Ceramic, ~ 1915, France
Located in Wien, AT
Very decorative vase from the early art deco period, made in France.
This object has a shape that looks like the ancient Greek amphorae, but has a four-pass stand to ensure stabili...
Category
1910s French Art Deco Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Pair of Turn of the Century Italian Majolica Harlequins
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of turn of the century Italian Majolica porcelain male and female
harlequin figures each wearing a top hat, striped pants and a red shirt.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
18th Century Italian Blue & White Faience Albarelli Apothecary Jar Pair
Located in Forney, TX
A remarkable pair of two antique European tin-glazed earthenware apothecary jars. circa 1770
Originally used as medicinal pottery jars that held ointments and dry drugs at apothecar...
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Earthenware, Faience, Majolica, Pottery
Large Vallauris Blue White Ceramic Fat Lava Round Bowl / Ashtray, 1950s
By Vallauris
Located in Barcelona, ES
French mid-century Vallauris ashtray / bowl, Glazed Ceramic
Beautiful fat lava glazed ceramic ashtray in dark blue and soft blue hues and white accents. Manufactured by Vallauris. France, 1950s.
This cool ashtray was handcrafted in France at the Mid-20th century period. Its design in shades of blue and white fat lava ceramic on a cobalt blue background . It has four cigarrette or cigars holders.
Highly decorative piece!
This colorful piece will be the perfect gift for smokers. Also useful as jewelry bowl , decorative bowl or vide-poche.
Overall Measures: 19 cm diameter x 9 cm height (7,48 in diameter x 3,54 in height).
Vallauris Ceramic Round Bowl // Glazed Ceramic Fat Lava Bowl...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
19th Century Majolica Vase Choisy Le Roi
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica vase signed Choisy le Roi, circa 1890.
Height / 11 inches.
Fleur de lis and pink flowers.
At the end of 19th century, Choisy le roi was one of the most important cer...
Category
1890s French Country Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Faience, Majolica
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century French Barbotine Covered Bowl with Bird and Bird Nest Décor
Located in Atlanta, GA
A 19th century petite French faience bowl adorned with a bird and bird nest barbotine décor. This French pottery features a green colored body, decorated with exquisite colorful flow...
Category
19th Century French Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Mid-Century Majolica Porcelain Sculptural Vase Featuring Stork and Bamboo Motif
Located in Tarry Town, NY
A captivating example of mid-century Italian ceramic artistry, this Majolica porcelain decorative vase sculpture seamlessly blends naturalistic elegance with sculptural charm. Create...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Porcelain
Mid-Century French Hand Painted Barbotine Ceramic Fruit Basket Centerpiece
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a tabletop with this colorful, majolica basket composition. Crafted in France circa 1960, the centerpiece features a realistic assortment of fruits and vegetables in high re...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Italian Majolica Painted Parrot
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Beautifully detailed sculpted pottery Macaw bird, perched on a branch with flowers. Made in Italy from majolica glazed pottery.
Please confirm location NY ...
Category
20th Century Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
Antique Spanish Polychrome Ceramic Charger with a Bull Decoration
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Circa 1800 Spanish Majolica Faience centerpiece bowl or charger.
This charming collectible antique painted ceramic dish is decorated with a large rear facing bull and with polychrom...
Category
Early 19th Century Spanish Folk Art Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
$472 Sale Price
79% Off
Rare Henriot Quimper France Faience Vase, Abstract Hand Painted Decor
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Rare Henriot Quimper faience vase is hand painted with abstract decor of complex geometric bands on the base and on top and abstract leaf garland in the central area of the vase. M...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Faience, Pottery, Ceramic, Majolica
Majolica Fish Sealife Platter Vallauris, circa 1950
By Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica sealife platter Vallauris, circa 1950.
High relief of a fish, seaweeds,starfish and oyster.
Nautical style.
7.3 inches diameter
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$304 Sale Price
20% Off
Monumental Majolica Shell Jardiniere Circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning monumental Majolica pink clamshell jardiniere, circa 1880.
This yellow and brown footed shell is decorated with coral,seaweeds and yellow...
Category
1880s French Aesthetic Movement Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic, Faience
$4,640 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Large Majolica Rooster with Bamboo Vase Delphin Massier
Located in Austin, TX
Large Majolica colorful rooster signed Delphin Massier circa 1890.
On the back of the rooster, a rare brown bamboo vase, usually the vase is a trunk.
Category
1890s French Victorian Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
$3,840 Sale Price
43% Off
French Art Nouveau Majolica Floral Dresser Mantel Clock and Garniture Set
By Esdeve, Sarreguemines
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The beautiful set by Esdeve - Sarreguemines features a lovely pink French Majolica dresser mantel clock and a matching pair of pink floral garniture vases. It features an Art Nouveau...
Category
Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
Blue and White Dutch Delft Tile: Stil life with vase and fruit, 17th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
The Netherlands
Circa 1700
A fine blue and white Dutch tile with a still life painting of a vase with leaves and grapes and an apple on the sides.
The scene is painted without corn...
Category
1690s Dutch Baroque Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Charles Lemanceau French Art Deco Borzoi Greyhound Couple, 1930s Majolica
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
A rare majolica ceramic sculpture by Charles Lemanceau for Saint Clément. The piece depicts two sleek, streamlined greyhounds in motion, capturing the essence of speed and grace. The...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
French Pottery Majolica Tureen circa 1930
Located in Austin, TX
French Pottery Majolica Tureen circa 1930.
Category
1930s French Rustic Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica, Pottery
$304 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Majolica Rooster Vase Choisy Le Roi by Carrier Belleuse
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica rooster vase signed Carrier Belleuse for the manufacture of Choisy le Roi, circa 1875.
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (born Albert-Ernest Carrier de Belleuse; 12 Jun...
Category
1890s French Country Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Faience, Majolica
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Majolica Cicada Vase Jerome Massier Fils, circa 1940
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica vase with cicada signed Jerome Massier Fils, circa 1940.
Provençal style.
Category
1950s French Country Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Vallauris Glazed Ceramic Majolica Gurgle Fish Jug Pitchers, 1950s
By Vallauris
Located in Barcelona, ES
Unmatching pair of Modernist glazed ceramic gurgling fish water jugs / pitchers by Vallauris, France, 1950s-1960s
Eye-catching hand painted fat lava gurgle fish vases...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic
Art Nouveau French Antique Ceramic Vase in Blue Majolica with White Gold Flowers
Located in New York, NY
1900-1910 French Art Nouveau Earthenware Vase in faience by Keller & Guérin - Lunéville, raised on 4 feet and decorated with hand-painted flowers enameled in white and azure sky blue...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold
Jasba Vase, West German Pottery 1950s-1960s
By Jasba
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Mid Century Modern ceramic vase features an abstract motif in Burgundy red glaze, sponged on in free-flowing patterns and outlined with gold, on light green background. The decor ap...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica, Pottery
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of 19th Century English Majolica Bamboo Vase
By Minton
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century Pair of English Majolica vases bamboo with a pink bow.
Category
1890s English Victorian Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$464 Sale Price
20% Off
Spanish Bull Shaped Glazed Ceramic Pitcher
Located in Barcelona, ES
Eye-catching ceramic bull jug / pitcher, Spain, 1960s.
Spanish ceramic bull shaped jug with romanesque inspired decorative details in green, white and brown-black.
This kind of tradi...
Category
20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
19th Century French Majolica Pigeon Wall Pocket
Located in Austin, TX
Large 19th century French Majolica Pigeon wall pocket.
The pigeon have a pink ribbon and carry a white card.
Category
1890s French Rustic Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century French Painted Ceramic Barbotine Jardinière with Floral Decor
Located in Dallas, TX
This elegant colorful hand painted Majolica planter was sculpted in Montigny sur Loing, France, circa 1860. The ceramic jardinière with root shape handles features high relief soft pink, blue and beige rose flowers with pale green leaves, and brown and grey background. The ceramic vase is in good condition commensurate with age and use (minor chips on few petals).
Impressionist ceramics term generally applies to "paint the slip" or "batch gouache". At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the towns of Montigny-sur-Loing and Marlotte are many artists living places like Jean-Baptiste Corot, Eugène Thirion (1839-1910), Adrien Schulz (1851-1931), Numa Gillet (1868-1940) and Lucien Cahen-Michel (1888-1980), all attracted by the quality of the landscape and the light. When Eugene Schopin founded in 1872 a ceramics factory, he worked with the painters to create a range of designs inspired by Impressionism and decorated according to new public demands. Several ceramic factories will develop around this Impressionist movement. The most famous, such as Georges Delvaux (1834-1909), Albert Boué (1862-1918) and Charles Alphonse Petit (1862-1927), will produce until 1922. Other manufacturers, such as Theodore Lefront...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Antique and Vintage Majolica Vases, Bowls, Candleholders and Other Decorative Objects
The popularity of Victorian majolica, the gaily colored, metallic-oxide-glazed earthenware, has ebbed and flowed for more than a century. Right now, antique and vintage vases, bowls and other decorative objects appear to be having a moment — again.
Starting in the 1850s, people in the U.S. and the U.K. embraced these affordable housewares with unusual polychrome palettes (turquoise and pink) and whimsical forms (candlesticks shaped like dolphins). By the 1870s, majolica was being mass-produced for an ever-expanding middle class in countries like England, France, Sweden, Hungary and Portugal. Majolica was Art for Everyman. Its popularity coincided with interest in exotic Japonisme and scientific studies by the likes of Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin and John James Audobon.
Despite a similarity in name, Victorian majolica is significantly different in subject matter and form from its Italian forebear, Renaissance maiolica. That earlier earthenware bore gaily painted religious and mythological scenes, and unlike majolica, with its lively contours, was not molded or three dimensional.
What was the attraction of majolica for the 19th-century collector? “Imagine what it looked like in a Victorian interior, with dark woods, heavy drapes and upholstered chairs and sofas,” says Susan Weber, founder of the Bard Graduate Center in New York. “Majolica is robust and extremely tactile. With its naturalistic shapes, colorful glazes and often humorous themes, it appealed to the growing consumer society.”
In England, manufacturers like Minton began to produce decorative, relief-molded majolica tiles for the interiors of taverns, train stations, even the famous Queen’s Dairy at Frogmore, on the grounds of Windsor Castle. In 19th-century France, Sèvres and smaller ceramics firms began to reinterpret the snake-decorated platters made by Bernard Palissy, a 16th-century self-taught French potter. The result was a type of majolica called Palissy ware, which, like the originals, was festooned with odd creatures (lobsters, lizards and snakes) modeled by hand.
The late Moroccan-born, Paris-based decorator Alberto Pinto often placed Palissy ware in his clients’ living rooms, posing individual pieces on brackets against a background of stamped, gilded leather. Pinto, in turn, influenced such contemporary decorators as Harry Heissmann of New York. After 1900, people got swept up in the romanticism of Art Nouveau and ceased buying majolica. The 1970s saw a revival of interest, and in 1982, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York, organized “English Majolica,” an exhibition featuring 75 examples from Minton, Wedgwood and George Jones, among other makers.
On 1stDibs, find antique and vintage majolica tea sets, vases, candlesticks, tureens and other furniture and decorative objects.
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After synthetic dyes changed fashion, home goods and printed matter, it was only a matter of time till glass caught up.
Kazuyo Sejima’s Flowering Tree Blooms Year-Round
The brilliantly simple design turns a modest bouquet into a major statement.
He Wrote ‘Oedipus Rex,’ but Do You Know What He Looked Like?
The Greek tragedian is said to have been handsome in his day.
Cigar Culture Was Once the Peak of Masculinity. Now, It’s a Compelling Curiosity
Even for those who don’t indulge, elegant smoking accessories and audacious art portraying cigar enthusiasts hold a nostalgic allure.
African Travel Plans on Hold? This Ardmore Leopard Vase Brings the Beauty of the Savanna to You
It’s an excellent example of the sought-after ceramics coming out of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province.
With a High-Tech Flagship and Cool Collabs, Lladró Is Breaking the Mold for Porcelain Production
Thanks to its new leadership, the Spanish maker of figurines, busts and lighting is on a mission to update the art of porcelain for the 21st century.
Zoë Powell’s Magnolia 05 Vessel Is Handmade from Clay She Unearthed Herself
The free-form stoneware piece is inspired by the magnolia tree and its associations with home.
8 Ways to Breathe New Life into a Space with Plants
The pair behind the Instagram account @houseplantclub share their tips for making any room of the house gloriously green.
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