Stoneware Decorative Objects

Among the most desirable pieces from L. Hjorth Ceramic in Denmark comes pieces by the Swedish Ceramist Eva Sjögren who worked with Hjorth for a period o...

This elegant handcrafted studio pottery vase is a captivating example of mid-century ceramic artistry, blending rustic charm with refined craftsmanship. Its gently undulating form is...

An exceptional pair of Art Nouveau purple and blue streak glazed art pottery candlesticks dating between 1909 and 1922. The stoneware candlesticks are heavily potted standing on wide rounded bases with tall graduating column stems with bud shaped tops with flat rounded rims. The candlesticks are decorated in streaked blue and purple glazes over a lighter red glazed ground and both have clear glazed foot rims with recessed bases. The candlesticks are both impressed ASHBY GUILD...

Large Mid-Century Danish Stoneware Vase by Jørgen Mogensen for Royal Copenhagen, 1970s. Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern ceramic vase in beige and brown earth colors. With blue bird ...

Unusual naively executed studio stoneware vase displaying sausage/coil roll technique. Hand applied glazes in different shades of brown, black and grey. It was made in Denmark circa ...

A brown and blue-glazed stoneware vase designed and produced by Michael Andersen Keramik, Denmark, 1960s.

A lovely stoneware vase designed by Stig Lindberg at Gustavsberg. The vase is 14,5 cm high and 12,5 cm in diameter. It is in excellent condition and marked as on photos. This is a un...

Unique Organic Sculptural Vase by Maria Loram Dimensions: W 30.5 x D 30.5 x H 21.6 cm Materials: Stoneware with a glazed finish. Colors: Beige. Custom dimensions and glaze finishes ...

A green glazed stoneware vase designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane and produced by Rörstrand, Sweden, 1960s.

Unique fish sculpture by the renowned Danish artist Carl Hugo Liisberg (1896-1958). Its executed in glazed stoneware and has a rather naturalistic look to it. The old crown from Saxb...

Minimalist Scandinavian modern cylinder vase handmade by Swedish artist Gunnar Nylund for Nymølle in the 1960s. Rustic matte dark brown chamotte clay on the outside and shiny bright ...

This tall vintage vase is distinguished by its richly layered oxblood flambé glaze — a deep burgundy red that subtly shifts toward violet and plum, especially near the rim and should...

A scarce large Doulton Lambeth early Art Deco figure of a Dutch Woman designed by renowned designer and modeler Leslie A Harradine and dating from around 1914. The figure modeled in ...

European Studio Potters Two stoneware vases, one with a wide body and flared neck, decorated with blue and brown glaze over a chamotte-like base, the other cylindrical with a narrow ...

A pair Winchcombe Pottery wood fired studio pottery chamber sticks decorated in oatmeal glazes dating from the 20th century. The chambersticks have ...

European Studio Potters Two small stoneware vases, one cylindrical with an incised signature “Ernst Faxe” underneath, the other with a flared neck and yellow-brown running glaze. Ma...

Nils Kähler for Kähler, Denmark. Small bowl in uranium glaze with impressed zigzag decoration. Designer: Nils Kähler Manufacturer: Kähler, Næstved, Denmark Material: Glazed stonewar...

Small 1940s Danish art nouveau ceramic vide-poche bowl with rose and burgundy organic decor on warm gray glaze. Manufactured on the island of Bornholm by Lauritz Hjorth in the 1940s....

Early and unique stoneware vase with amazing glaze. Made by Yngve Blixt, in his studio in Höganäs, Sweden, 1957. Excellent condition. Incised Yngve Blixt, Höganäs, 1957. Yngv...

The Danish artist and ceramist Aino Grib was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1972. This unique vase is an early piece and ...

Handmade Danish midcentury modern decorative dish bowl designed and manufactured on the island of Bornholm by Michael Andersen & Son in the early 1960s. Crisp white glaze with a ...

Mid-century Danish vase designed by Einar Johansen for Søholm Stentøj. Made circa 1960s. The sculptural vase has a shiny and vivid glaze in blue green and brown shades. It's made of ...

Scandinavian midcentury modern ceramic pitcher bottle vase handmade by designer Børge Christoffersen for Chris Keramik in the small town of Haslev in the 1960s. Shiny midnight blue s...

An exceptional quality German Bauhaus inspired art pottery glazed stoneware vase probably dating between 1930 and 1950. The vase is beautifully made of large bulbous shape standing o...

French ceramic stoneware bottle vase Neutral toned ceramic stoneware ceramic bottle Organic composition and feel This large bottle is grand in scale and substantial enough to hold a...

Arne Bang inspired ceramic vase with vertical flutings and blue glaze. Designed by Danish ceramist Einar Johansen and created in his own workshop during the 1960s before he started a...

A grand white vase in chamotte stoneware. Art Deco / Swedish Grace. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for Rorstrand, Sweden, 1930s. Great condition. It has some dark firing spots at the bas...

Handmade Danish 1940s ceramic vase by Herman Kähler Keramik. Cream glaze with hand-painted lined and organically wavy decorations in clear blue. Signed and stamped under base. Rustic...

Set of 3 ceramic vases in beige-brown earth tones. They come with a discrete glaze. Scandinavian Mid-Century ceramic. Produced in the 1960s by Palshus (Denmark), founded by Per and...

A lovely animal sculpture of a monkey designed by Gunnar Nylund at Rörstrand, it is 16 cm high and in very good condition with a lovely glaze. It comes with the original wooden base....

Stunning Danish midcentury modern Kähler handmade centrepiece, decorative dish or wall decoration with glossy organic floral patterns and turquoise glaze - Kähler's signature color. ...

Collapsed face vase or wall plaque in salt glazed stoneware. Interesting naive almost surreal expression. Its a piece unique studio made by the Danish ceramist Gunner Michael Anderse...

Article: Ceramic pottery vase Origin: Germany Designer: Heinz Siery Producer: Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany Decade: 1970s This original vintage...

A beautiful miniature stoneware vase with amazing dark blue hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1968. Great condi...

Stunning blue glazed stoneware vessel by notable Michigan Ceramic artist Gawaine Dart circa 1970s A beautiful ombre of deep blue and turquoise glazes with contrasting black rim Ori...

Unique artist/ceramist signed unicorn in Baku burnt stoneware. A waste variety of different glaze colors and the 'horn' itself is actually made from wood. Unknown/un-identified Danis...

Gunnar Nylund ‚Caolina‘ vase in white glazed stoneware, designed in 1955 for Rörstrand factory in Sweden. 1st class quality sorting, very good c...

Wall-mounted relief in glazed stoneware with wooden frame. Signed on the back. 1969.

A stylish English studio pottery bowl decorated in blue glazes with a trailing snake design by William Illesley (British, b.1948) and made at hi...

Unique Stig Lindberg vase in a wonderful turquoise blue glaze, hand-crafted for Gustavsberg in Sweden in 1963. Hand-thrown stoneware with impressed pattern, overglazed. Signed with ...

A beautiful miniature stoneware vase with amazing light brown hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1956. Great con...

This rectangular stoneware vase was designed by Danish ceramist Jorgen Mogensen (Royal Copenhagen designer) and created in his own workshop/studio. It is a unique piece and its signe...

A beige-glazed stoneware "Vitrin" vase designed by Stig Lindberg and produced by Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1956.

Sven Wejsfelt's vase boasts a robust, earthy form, adorned with a rich brown glaze and an intricate relief stamp. This chamotte creation hails from the 1970s and is a notable additio...

Large sculptural stoneware vase by Eds-Keramik, Benshausen, Germany. Model 2012/40 with hand-painted geometric decoration in warm earthy tones. A powerful Mid-Century Modern art obje...

A very fine vintage hand-crafted studio pottery faceted bud vase by renowned potter Atsuya Hamada (Japanese, 1932-1986) and made at the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall dating from...

Rare, elegant and highly decorative studio pottery ceramic vase. No 06. Designed and made by famous German studio ceramic artist Ilse Ludwig-Korbel, Tittmoning, Germany, 1980s. Arti...

Mid-century stoneware vase by Danish ceramist Chris (Christian Verner) Moes (1914-1998). Made 1972. The vase features an interesting both matte and glossy surface. The colors are gr...

A pair of decorative, large Scandinavian modern square bowls / plates with wonderful abstract motifs. Designed and manufactured by the Danish ceramic artist Jeppe Hagedorn-Olsen in ...

A brown stoneware vase designed and produced by Lise Dirch Jans, Denmark, 1975.

A stone object of unknown author from Japan. The stone is carved and polished. Very attractive shape and high quality nice work.

Claude Conover vase, "Toluca", ceramic, signed. Large hand built incised stoneware vase, glazed in subtle two tone and finely decorated with Conover's signature hatching and scratchi...

Tall mid-century signed California studio stoneware vase / pot, circa 1962. The vase is in very good vintage with no chips or cracks and measures 7.75"D x 10"H. The piece is signed "...

A beautiful miniature stoneware vase with amazing glossy glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1960s. Great condition. Incise...

A work by Carl-Harry Stalhåne, who led Rorstrand's golden age in the 1950s alongside Gunnar Nylund and worked as a designer and art director. After his first exhibition in 1948, he s...

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...

A stoneware art deco vase with beautiful brown glaze. Foot and mouth detailed in gold. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for ALP (Lidköpings Porslinsfabrik), Sweden, 1930s. Great condition,...

Extremely rare Japanese inspired Søholm vase. Handmade Danish Mid-Century Modern stoneware vase with mint and aqua green glaze and hand-carved minimalist, geometric pattern around th...

A matching set of 3 animal relief vases in glazed ceramics/stoneware. Designed and manufactured by Michael & Son in Denmark during the 1950s and 60s. Des...

Curated lot of 3 Scandinavian ceramic/stoneware pieces. A bowl/dish by Jette Hellerøe, a ball vase by Robert Bentsen and an unknown octagonal trinket wi...