Stoneware Decorative Objects

There's something about art that hangs in space rather than on the wall. This piece, "Hanging Rachis With Tail" consists of graduating stonewa...

From Thom Lussier's Oxidized Copper Collection - a series of ceramic vessels that stand out for their rich textures and brilliant palette of copper and turquoise...

Hollow yet weighted, this contemplative ceramic sculpture is both an object to look at as well as to hold. The center opening creates negative space, suggesting the passing through o...

A Swedish Scandinavian Modern wine-red and grey stoneware bowl by Swedish Modernist designer Carl-Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand. This model is named "California" or "Californien" in S...

This 3-part crusty yellow-gold hand built ceramic TOTEM is a true gift from the "kiln gods", a term ceramicists often use. Here, the result was totally unpredictable and unexpected. ...

Carl-Harry Stålhane (1920‑1990). Floor vase. Rörstrand. Signed with crowned R SWEDEN and CHS SDA. Stoneware, glaze in blue tones. H 20″. D 8.3"

One of a trio of fully hand built ceramic TOTEMS in matte black under glazed stoneware. This one, "Take a Bite" has a small arc-like bite at the top. They each have their own personality which occurs when clay is hand-formed into shapes, connected together, and fired in a hot kiln. The surface is textured and coated with underglaze, giving the impression of black clay. Pictured below with 2 sister pieces: "Tall Feather" and "First Walk on the Moon...

Mid-century studio ceramic stoneware pottery wall hanging vase from France. Large sized wall hanging stoneware pottery vase depicting a quiet farmhouse against moonlit night sky. The...

Wonderful unique stoneware table lamp handmade by Bjørn Wiinblad at his own studio "Det blaa Hus" ("The Blue House") in the 1970s. The lamp base is made from stoneware with a glossy ...

A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing 'leopard' glaze. Made by Yngve Blixt, in his studio in Höganäs, Sweden, 1974. Excellent condition. Incised Yngve Blixt, Höganäs. Yngve Blix...

Elegant stoneware pitcher with a rich brown glaze, designed by Danish ceramist Erik Rahr (1908–1982) for Saxbo. A fine example of modernist Danish ceramic design, marked on the base...

A charming late 20th century American studio pottery bowl with an etched duck motif and glazed in earthy browns, blues, and whites, perfect for catching your pocket change...

A glazed stoneware vase by Berndt Friberg. Signed. Measures: H 6.75" D 4.5".

A Hand Formed Chalice on Tripod Legs, one in a series of Modern TOTEMS, in matte black, underglazed stoneware. Each TOTEM is unique and has its own person...

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Blue Planet Sphere is a round elliptically shaped sculpture, like a flattened, angle-edged ball. Not exactly shaped like our Blue Planet, it still looks li...

Pre-owned goods are exempt from import duties for U.S. customers. Therefore, no import tariffs will be applicable to your purchase. Carl Harry Stålhane (1920-1990) for "Designhuset...

A beautiful stoneware bowl with amazing hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1962. Great condition. Incised signa...

Marcello Fantoni Raymor Vase, Ceramic, Drip Glaze, Burgundy Red, Yellow, Signed. Tall slender vase with soft rounded shoulders and a slightly tapered body. Thoughtfully executed text...

This 19th-century French confit pot features a classic glazed stoneware body with traditional dual handles, both decorative and functional. This handcrafted piece reflects the rustic...

A beautiful 'Swedish Modern' stoneware vase with white 'Carrara' glaze. Made by Wilhelm Kåge at Gustavsberg in Sweden, 1930s. Great condition. Stamped 'Gustavsberg / CARRARA' and ...

This new collection features the technique of layering colored clay onto vessels, a process that feels much like painting on a canvas. It’s been an exciting and deeply personal journ...

Small stoneware vase by Eric and Ingrid Triller, with a wide mouth and warm brown and terracotta colored glaze. Fleeing World War II, German potters Eric and Ingrid Triller settled ...

A black and brown-glazed stoneware vase designed by Berndt Friberg and produced by Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1976.

A set of miniature black ceramic vases designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane and produced by Rörstrand, Sweden, 1950s. Carl-Harry Stålhane joined Rörstrand in 1939, beginning as a decorat...

This striking studio pottery box by Dr. Sequoia Miller was created in the 1990s, a formative period before he shifted from full-time maker to one of the most important thinkers and c...

A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing hare’s fur glaze. Made by master thrower Berndt Friberg, in the artist's studio at Gustavsberg, Sweden. Excellent condition. Incised signa...

Miniature stoneware turtle sculpture by Meissen Boettger, circa 1970s. The piece is in very good condition with no chips or cracks and measures 2.25"W x 3""D x 1.5"H. Great detail a...

A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing glaze. Made by Stig Lindberg in Gustavsberg Studio, Sweden. 1950s. Great condition. Incised 'Stig L.' and Gustavsberg studio hand. Stig Lind...

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 hollow oval sculpture on 4 button feet. Part of a new series of related pieces, a sculptural "Family" of Modern Shapes as ceramic stoneware objects. This piece has a dark matte bro...

Beautiful stoneware vase by Carl-Harry Stålhane in a neat Size and sleek form. Steely blue glaze with color speckles that have a golden effect.

Lene Regius, born 1940. Danish ceramicist and artist. Colossal stoneware vase. Unique, one of a kind. Decorated with motifs inspired by African cultural ...

A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing 'leopard' glaze. Made by Yngve Blixt, in his studio in Höganäs, Sweden, 1974. Excellent condition. Incised Yngve Blixt, Höganäs. Yngve Blix...

Hand built Ceramic Sculpture, in Gray/Green Underglaze. The Gray/Green is hard to capture: more dark gray than green, it has the feeling of the color sage green. The piece is a composite of hollow pods, elongated, pointed oval or elliptical shapes. They are individually hand-formed, attached together and fused during the firing. White stoneware clay with gray/green underglazes create a soft, powdery surface that still shows a bit of texture from the clay. It is not glazed. The Composite Series has an earthy presence, inspired by the huge bare boulders of the Anza Borrego...

Article: Pottery ceramic vase set of 2 Producer: Dümler and Breiden, Germany Decade: 1960s Description: Original vintage 1960s pottery ceramic vases in G...

Beautiful and rare stoneware vases designed by Gertrud Lönegren. These studio pieces were created at Rorstrand in Sweden between 1936-41. Excellent condition. Impressed 'Rörstr...

Lovely miniature stoneware vase by Stig Lindberg, model called “Gnurgla”. Unique, in a whimsical, smooth drop form. Glazed glossy nuances of rich brown.

Large Japanese ikebana stoneware vase, circa 1960s. The vase is in great shape with no chips or cracks and has a wonderful mid-century circular shape ...

The stoneware has a satin warm grey over brown glaze. Incised to bottom, "COLLEGE of CERAMICS, alfred M. Negoro." The piece is in very good condition with no chips or cracks. Has imperfection under glaze/or in glaze on the top on rim, but not rough to touch. MINNIE NEGORO...

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 pair of stoneware fish figures by Willi Fischer for his own company Fischer Stengods, Sweden 1970s.

A tall stoneware vase France, 1960s

Vintage Blue Ceramic Ashtray by Aldo Londi for Bitossi Handcrafted in Italy "Rimini Blu" enameled terra cotta turquoise blue ashtray by Aldo Londi for Bitossi. Handcrafted in Italy w...

A stoneware vase in brown glaze designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane and produced by Rörstrand, Sweden, 1950s. Carl-Harry Stålhane joined Rörstrand in 1939, beginning as a decorator unde...

Noomi backhausen and Poul Brandborg for Søholm Keramik, Bornholm. A pair of vases in stoneware. Hand-painted geometric patterns. 1960s/70s. Marked. Perfect condition. Largest: Heigh...

Beautiful and rare vase designed by Gertrud Lönegren. This studio piece was created at Rorstrand in Sweden between 1936-41. Excellent condition. Beautiful glaze. Impressed 'Rör...

Amphora - white Measures: H: 25 cm / L: 19 cm H: 10 inch. / L: 7.5 inch. - Stoneware fired at high temperature finished with transparent glossy glaze inside. - Raw exterior...

3 Stunning handmade stoneware vases by Danish artist Ole Bjørn Krüger (1922-2007) in his own workshop in the 1960s. Beautiful organic shape and thick green glazing. Krüger was known ...

‘Lune [M] - circles black N°1' ceramic vase This vase is part of a new series inspired by iconic Art (and more precisely paintings) movements. Here is our LUNE [M] model with moti...

Bitossi Vase, Ceramic, Brushed, Metallic Silver. Small scale slender cylinder vase glazed in brushed metallic platinum.

Stunning handmade stoneware wall relief by Danish artist Ole Bjørn Krüger (1922-2007). Made in his own workshop in the 1960s. Beautiful organic shape and contrasts between the stonew...

Striking stoneware vase by Stig Lindberg, model called “Gnurgla”. Unique, in a whimsical, drawn out drop form. Glazed glossy, rich aubergine purple.

Stoneware ceramic reptilian pitcher created by Jack Mason of Stone Mountain, Georgia. Pitcher measures 14.5" high by 8" wide. Signed J. Mason Stone Mountain...

This Swedish Studio Pottery Vase made by Agne Aronsson has a wonderfully sculptural form, with a gently tapering neck surmounted by a delicate cup shaped mouth. The vase is covered i...

A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing glaze. Made by Marianne Westman for Rorstrand, Sweden, 1960s. Great condition. Incised signatu...

Keith Simpson rather instinctively made ceramic cacti for the show. They were a last minute thought that evolved out of a daydream. Keith was musing about the possibility of moving t...

Large ceramic vide-poche or low bowl in earth tones beige-grey brown. Square with rounded edges. Scandinavian Mid-Century 1960s, produced by Palshus (Denmark), founded by Per and h...

This glazed black hand built ceramic modern TOTEM consists of a freeform open top with a middle spherical shape on tripod legs. Part of a series of Modern Totemic works. The dark brown stoneware clay is hand formed in 3 sections which are attached before firing. The rich Black Glaze on the lower forms alternates between satin and gloss and shows the texture of the clay, while the White Glazed top reveals the artist's hand and the brown clay beneath. Several ceramic techniques are used here, slab construction, coiling and pinching...

A beautiful stoneware art deco footed bowl. Amazing glaze with details in hand-painted gold. Designed by Gunnar Nylund for ALP (Lidköpings Porslinsfabrik), Sweden, 1930s. Great cond...