German Decorative Objects

Beautiful interior vase made of elite high quality porcelain by Kaiser, Eleonore Series. The vase is painted by designer -K. Nossek. His design solutions always attract attention an...

German pendant mirror box in Guilloché enamel. This is a beautiful guilloche open-box pendant created in Pforzheim Germany during the belle Epoque-Edwardian period, back in the begi...

Excellent and rare Meissen porcelain genre group: Elegantly dressed Rococo couple in the shade of a group of trees: a young lady sitting at the feet of her beau, leaning back against...

An elegant Dresden porcelain vessel crafted in Germany during the early decades of the 20th century. The piece is distinguished by its vibrant green ground, richly enhanced with hand...

Peill & Putzler vase, Germany, 1970s. Very good condition.

Article: ceramic pottery vase. Origin: Germany. Producer: Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany. Decade: 1970s. This original vintage pottery object was designed and produced by C...

German mid-century style square shaped orange \"fat lava\"ceramic vase with blue circle design and cylindrical neck (BAY KERAMIC).

A unique vintage vase made from a glass block. A rounded rectangular opening has been cut into the top for use as a vase. Nice heavy weight, would work well doubling as a bookend. Ha...

Set of four handmade and hand-painted christmas candle holders in wood. Four different figures like an angel, santa . The handmade figures are...

A rare carved Hawk's Eye agate tiger on a 14k gold mounted rock crystal base, circa 1960. "A Jeweled Sculpture" An incredible carved tiger made...

Around the world, Döttling luxury safes find homes among select connoisseurs and enthusiasts of the finest locksmith artisanry. They originate from the Döttling manufactory in Sindel...

Handblown crystal vase in blue with a country style easter design. Hand-carved by Bavarian glass artists . A rich garland of trees and flowers with rabi...

Meissen, pair of antique candlesticks. Rare candlesticks in high quality. Measures: 28 cm. tall, 11 cm. in diameter. In good conditi...

A tall and richly decorated mid-century studio pottery vase from Steuler Keramik, hand painted by the artist A. Becker, Germany, circa 1955–1965. A sculptural statement piece with Mo...

Body of clear glass with multi colored shapes in yellow, pink, and black. Potsch is a Munich artist whose development moved from paints on canvas to three-dimensional "paintings" in ...

Article: Brutalist candleholder Origin: France Material: solid bronze Decade: 1970s This original vintage candleholder, was produced in the 1970s in France. It is made of solid brass, and has a lovely patination due to the age of about 50 years. It is a high quality French production with a fantastic surface structure and sculptural Brutalist optic. With its original formed shape, it can hold 3 candles...

this is a wonderful example of a late 18th century Meissen reticulate bowl or basket and stand in white porcelain with Meissen blue accents. Both the bowl and the stand are in overal...

A very fine early 20th Century gilt bronze figure of the famous Cleopatra with a snake wrapped around her wrist drinking from a bowl. Exhibiting fine colour and excellent hand fi...

Article: Set of two ceramic candleholder elements Model: 150-25 Producer: Steuler, Germany Design: Cari Zalloni Decade: 1970s Description: The...

Art Deco 1930 porcelain figure by Karl Tutter (1883-1969) for Hutschenreuther. This piece has been created in Bavaria, Germany back in the 1930. This was designed by the artist Karl Tutter-one of the premiere porcelain modelers of his day!-and made by the Lorenz Hutschenreuther depicting a naked women, with the arms open in direction to the sun, this pose called Sun Child. The main body is decorated with delicate skin cream color, with accents of black, red and light gilding. all mounted in a ball on a round pedestal base. This piece have a height measure of 12.75 inches (32.40 Cm) and the base have a diameter of 3 inches (7.6 Cm). Signed at the base, with the company maker's logo for "HUTSCHENREUTHER GERMANY" and the incised inscription "K TUTTER...

Article: Glass bowl Producer: WMF, Germany Designer: Karl Wiedmann Design 1930s, this item was produced in the 1960s. Description: Wonderful heavy Art...

Goerz Tenax Folding Medium Format Roll Film With A Zeiss Ikon Compur With C.P.Goerz Berlin Dogmar 12.5cm F6.3 Prime Lens With A Leather Case Shutter speed 1 - 1/250 Takes 6.5 x 4 c...

This porcelain vases is hand crafted and hand painted in the historic studios at Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg. Designed by the artist Ruth Gurvich, this vase is like folded paper...

Life-sized, mohair Steiff Elk, probably from the 1960s. Steiff referred to these life-size stuffed creatures as, “studio animals” and were very expensive when new. As I child, we wou...

Vintage bark glass vase yellow and green , 1970’s

Karim Rashid for Leonardo Germany Limited Edition New Move Silver Glass Vase, ca 1999. Measures 8” high, base 3-1/2” wide, and mouth 2-1/4” wide. There is a small scratch of silver finish/coating on glass (we've posted an image of the interior and exterior at the area of the scratch). There is also a faint area of small blemishes at the base See images for more detail. If there’s one thing karim rashid hates, it’s trophies. The 40-year-old designer has more than 40 of them, from big international ones like the 1999 George Nelson Award (given for breakthrough furniture design), to quaint little Canadian ones like Designer of the Year 2001. “It came with a little pin,” says Rashid, “and a … a … very nice …” He tries to describe the shape of the award with his hands but gives up. “It’s time that whole trophy thing changes. It’s kitsch. They’re functionless things.” Rashid was asked to design one for the DaimlerChrysler Design Awards (he’s a past recipient). “I was going to make it electro-luminescent. When the lights go out, it has a sensor so it turns on,” he says. But the trophy-as-night-light, a reminder of one’s worth in the darkest hours, didn’t impress Chrysler’s people. He never heard back. They may well be gnawing their knuckles over that decision right now because Rashid’s conquest of the realm of product design is all but complete. A lush and suitably worshipful retrospective of his work, Karim Rashid: I Want to Change the World (Thames & Hudson; 249 pages), hits Australasian bookstores this month. There was a crowd around anything with his stamp on it-including stools, chess sets and storage units-at the recent International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City. More than 2 million North Americans are throwing their rubbish into a receptacle he designed, while 750,000 or so park their rears on one of his cheapo plastic chairs. It’s not just in North America. He has been dubbed Der Poet des Plastiks by a retailer in Germany and the prolifico progettista Americano by Interni magazine in Italy. Trophies he may despise, but accolades Rashid can handle. The problem with being the Most Famous Industrial Designer in All the Americas is that you’re still less famous than someone who got kicked off Survivor the first week. Most people cannot name the designer of one nonclothing item in their homes. Rashid, who was born in Egypt, raised in Canada and is living in New York City, is more than happy to bring an end to this anonymity. Not just because he wants to be famous, although there seems to be that, but because he believes design should be a bigger part of the social discourse. “I have been almost alone in this country, trying to make design become a public subject,” he says. His chief method of persuasion is to make the banal better so that people notice design more. He likes creating expensive furniture and perfume bottles just fine, but what really gets his juices going is the everyday: manhole covers, a cremation urn, disposable cigarette lighters, garbage bins, salt and pepper shakers, plastic pens. “I want American Standard to come to me to do the toilets for Home Depot,” he says. In many ways Rashid is more like an itinerant industrial evangelist than a designer. He traveled 200 days last year. He claims to have been to every major mall in America, where he signs his products in high-end design stores and trolls about observing humans interacting with the objects around them. He has taught at design schools for more than a decade, and his work has been in 11 art shows in the past eight months. But mostly he has proselytized the corporate barbarians. And like any good missionary, he has learned to speak the language of his converts. One of the first things he does when he gets new clients is tour their factories to understand their manufacturing capacity. He also visits the retail outlets to see how the product might be displayed. And he really knows how to sell, especially himself. “I work with a guy in L.A.,” says Rashid, declining to name him. “He made a lot of really bad furniture. His business was hand-to-mouth. I proposed seven or eight projects. The pieces I’ve done for him have already become iconic.” The subtitle of his monograph, I Want to Change the World, is not ironic, just characteristically immodest. “Most industrial-design studios try to interpret a client’s needs and come up with a style,” says Paul Rowan, co-founder of housewares manufacturer Umbra. “Karim has his own personal vision.” It helps that Rashid’s vision incorporates things that Rowan needs, like a design that will stack and ship easily and that creates little waste in the making. Rashid’s father was a set designer for Canadian TV who rearranged the family furniture every Sunday. So perhaps it was ordained that Karim would grow up to become one of the pioneers in non-cheesy plastic, making objects that have energy and personality but aren’t wacky. He, like many of his generation, has championed the could-only-be-designed-with-computers blob. But his is not just a blob for its own sake. His Oh Chair...

A refined set of five dessert plates featuring hand-painted landscape medallions by Rudolf Sieck, each with its own unique motif. Decagonal shape with pearl rim. Porcelain with polyc...

Huge floor vase Classic: 1970s Carstens 'Fat Lava Relief' Floor Vase (WGP), orange Manufacturer: Carstens Tönnieshof Design period: 1968–1978 Production period: 1968–1978 Country ...

This fine antique tumbler cup has a plain circular form. Made from the rare and highly prized metal Paktong. Similar in shape to silver examples of ...

Very rare Meissen Art Nouveau porcelain group: A dancing couple in elegant casual wear: the lady in a long, fitted dress with a white skirt and black-and-green striped sleeves; on he...

Postmodern Glass Candleholder from Rosenthal Studio Line, 1980s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1980 to 1989 This piece has an attribution mark. Additional information: Materials...

Rectangular cherrywood box with square parquetry in various woods. The lid is fitted with a bronze key escutcheon and handle. A sliding side mechanism with a removable panel reveals ...

Art Glass Vase, Style of WMF in Germany, 1950s Style Karl Wiedmann German glass bowl style of Karl Wiedmann, 1950s A decorative glass vase, style of WMF (Wurttembergische Metall...

Article: Op Art porcelain vase set of 2 Producer: AK Kaiser, Germany Description: This original vintage OP Art Vase was produced in the 1970s in Germany. it is mad...

Striking original Rosenthal porcelain hand painted flower vase Series LIGURIA designed by Gilbert Portanier and made in Germany for Studio-Linie. The vase features multi-color abstra...

Article: Ceramic objects, set of 2 Designer and producer: Rudi Stahl, Germany Information: Rudi Stahl (1918 - 1987) / Höhr-Grenzhausen Decade: 1970s This original vintage studio object set was designed by Rudi Stahl and produced in his own Studio in the 1970s in Germany. It is made of pottery and has a very unique brown tone etc. coloration. The bottom is marked with typical Stahl Producer signature. A very collectible and very rare item of the Stahl Collection. The object has a very sculptural form and in its size of 12 and 21cm in height, it is very impressive. Straightforward and minimalistic design of the 1970s design era. This item is a wonderful addition to every modern home. Dimensions: left Height 21cm Diameter 25,5cm right Height 12,5cm Diameter 16cm Condition: This item is in a very good vintage condition with patina. VITA Rudi Stahl: Apprenticeship in pottery with Wim Mühlendyck (1936 journeyman's examination there), 1937 to 1939 studies at the State College for Ceramics in Höhr-Grenzhausen; from 1940 own workshop there; 1942 master craftsman examination; later he was chief master of the pottery guild of Rhineland-Palatinate. He received numerous awards, in 1975 Rudi Stahl (together with Wim Mühlendyck) was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. Collaboration with, among others, Theodor Bogler.

This tall stoneware vase was made in the 1980s by the German factory Asa Selection. Handmade with the utmost care and attention to detail. The intriguing oval shape in a unique brick...

Bavarian German Mid-Century white porcelain vase with a square vase and a bulbous bottom extending to a narrow square neck with an incised spiral pattern. (mark on bottom, BAVARIA SC...

This antique sculpture was done by the well known Hans Arnoldt of Germany and dates to the early 20th Century and done in an Art Deco style. The sculpture is composed of cast and pat...

Article: Ceramic vase Producer: Bertoncello Ceramics, Schiavon, Italy Decade: 1970s This original vintage Studio Pottery vase was produced in the 1970s by B...

German Modern 800 silver box, ca 1920. Rectangular with straight sides and crisp corners. Cover hinged with tapering tab; cover top gently curved and inlaid with shagreen in geometri...

Based on the design of their 1920s "MET2" and a post-war re-make from their 1930's "C210t", Siemens-Schuckert produced this model "W250T" in Germany between 1949 and 1955. Showcasing their aviation heritage - Siemens-Schuckert also produced aircraft during World War 1, such as the "Riesenflugzeug" (giant plane or R-plane) - this desk fan became THE GERMAN FAN...

A shapely pair of West German Roth Keramik art pottery 'fat lava' guitar vases with red glaze; each with square mouth above a bulbous body all in a thick ...

Woman with a parrot, KPM Berlin, 19th century.. Beautiful figurine of a standing woman in oriental dress holding a parrot in her right hand. Naturalistically painted with fired KPM mark...

70s sewing box sewing basket Utensilio wood mesh Space Age mid century design Object: sewing basket Manufacturer: Condition: good Age: around 1960-1970 Dimensions: ...

German 19th century giltwood chandelier for burning taper candles, untouched by the modern convenience of electricity as a delightfully analog source of light. This elegant design fr...

Elegant and petite porcelain bud vase designed by renowned Danish ceramicist, Bjorn Wiinblad, for Rosenthal studio-line Germany. Vase itself has a modernist, curvaceous form with Wi...

Stunning mid-century large fat lava vase. This beautiful piece is glazed in a deep ocean blue with a red glaze band around it in the middle. The en...

Ceramic blue vase is an original decorative object realized in 19th century by Franz Anton Mehlem. Elegant vase with floral decorations. Excellent condition

Pre-owned goods are exempt from import duties for U.S. customers. Therefore, no import tariffs will be applicable to your purchase. Meissen, Germany. Porcelain figurine of girl wit...

Collection of four Meissen porcelain bird models German, 20th Century Largest (parrot): Height 14cm, width 10cm, depth 5cm This superb collection of four porcelain bird sculptures, was masterfully created by the celebrated artisans of the historic Meissen porcelain factory. Each bird is perched gracefully on a white porcelain tree...

Sculpture life-size Muckle Batman The Dark Knight Rises from studio OXMOX (6.2 feet tall). In mint condition and factory sealed. Casted sculpture f...

Note: We highly recommend shipping through 1stDibs for its cost effectiveness, full insurance coverage, and reliable handling. While standard parcel services are an option, the default quote does not include packing and insurance. 1stDibs shipping provides a level of value, protection, and care that aligns with our commitment to safeguarding historic artworks and providing excellent client service. Created while a lead designer for J. Winhart & Co., Ludwig Vierthaler’s cicada themed copper vase showcases the design principles which he developed at J. Winhart in the pre-war years, where emphasis was placed on craftsmanship and the characteristics of the material itself. The vase’s ambiguous quality and use of allegory also shows his uncanny understanding of the dual nature of German life at the time. On the one hand, under Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany was asserting herself strongly in the Weltpolitik through alliances with other central-European powers and in making grand plans to grow in military strength. With hindsight, Vierthaler’s vase is all the more remarkable for his prescience in the twilight of an empire. By presenting a cicada, he evokes a conundrum. Is this cicada a strong adult, newly emerged from a long dormancy? Or is this the cicada...

West German Mid-Century hourglass-form ceramic vase with a red and orange speckled glaze. (SCHEURICH, mark on bottom, W. GERMANY 244-17)

This is a figure in hand crafted porcelain by Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory. The collection Circus by the artist Luise Terletzki Scherf is a joy to have in your space. She crafte...

Article: Pottery ceramic vase Producer: Dümmler and Breiden, Germany Decade: 1950s Original vintage 1950s pottery stoneware ceramic vase in Germany. Hig...

Article: Ceramic stoneware object Designer and producer: Gerhard Liebenthron Information: Gerhard Liebenthron, Bremen 1925 †2005 Decade: 1970s This ori...

Excellent piece of Meissen porcelain of the 18th century: Four cupids in cloths grouped together with a billy goat lying on the ground, a cupid crowned with vines sitting on the anim...

Eli Keller, Germany Vase, mid-20th century. Unique hand-thrown stoneware vase with a light glaze and characteristic marbled decoration in brown and black tones. Soft, rounded form wi...

Eli Keller, Germany Vase, mid-20th century. Unique hand-thrown stoneware vase with a light glaze and characteristic marbled decoration in brown and black tones. Organic, classic form...