Stoneware Sculptures

Article: ceramic pottery vase. Origin: Germany. Producer: Walter Gerhards, Germany. Decade: 1970s. This original vintage pottery object was designed and produced by WALTER...

Large Totem Carbon by Maxence De Bagneux Dimensions: D 30 x H 180 cm Materials: Stoneware, burnt laminated wood. Maxence de Bagneux has devoted his free time since childhood to his ...

Mandrill sculpture designed by Vicke Lindstrand for Uppsala Ekeby Sweden, 1940s Stoneware. Signed. H: 31 cm / 1'' L: 43 cm / 1'' 1' 3 / 4

Sculpture by Hassan Heshmat, Egypt. 1960's. Stoneware. Unique. Dimensions: H: 52 cm/ 20 1/2''

Stoneware, Silicone Small Wrinkled by Daniel Elkayam Dimensions: D 12 x W 12 x H 14 cm Materials: Stoneware, Silicone. Jerusalem-born Art-designer and Photographer based in Tel-Av...

A stunning and unique stoneware rooster sculpture with amazing glaze. Made by Tyra Lundgren. Executed in her own studio in Sweden, 1955. Great condition, but with a couple of chips to the base (pictured). Signed by the artist in two places, and dated 1955-06-20. Provenance: bought from the estate of the artist in 1979. 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...

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...

A striking 1920s glazed stoneware pelican sculpture attributed to Leeds Fireclay Co. (LEFCO). Though unstamped, the stoneware is finished with a mottled grey-brown glaze typical of L...

Unique piece Signed: Astoul. Master ceramicist Eric Astoul created this piece as part of a series inspired by both modern and ancient stoneware, which, with its rough firing, fli...

Article: Ceramic stoneware object, UFO Vase Designer and producer: Gerhard Liebenthron Information: Gerhard Liebenthron, Bremen 1925 †2005 Decade: 19...

“Dune I” Wall by Agnès Debizet, 2017 Monumental wall sculpture comprising twenty elements made of stoneware and porcelain slip with dark cracks surface, unique piece signed and da...

Ritual Tray by Ilona Golovina Hand built from groggy stoneware, this sculptural tray by Ilona Golovina embodies the quiet power of ritual and the beauty of imperfection. Elevated by...

French Art Deco stoneware bear by Paul MILET, 8, rue Troyon, Sèvres, France, 1920s. Height : 32.5cm - 12.8 in. , Width : 34cm - 13.4 in., Depth : 13.5cm-5.3in. A pinhead lack of cove...

Article: Ceramic pottery vase Origin: Germany Designer: Gerda Heukeroth Producer: Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany Decade: 1970s This original vin...

Glazed stoneware vase by Andrée & Michel Hirlet. Material: Stoneware, glazing. Dimensions: H 42 x 27 cm. Year: circa 1970. Unique piece, signed. Working outside of any wider artisti...

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

Article: Ceramic pottery vase Origin: Germany Producer: Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany Decade: 1970s This original vintage pottery object was produced...

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

Glazed stoneware sculpture. Wood fired.

A rare and beautiful stoneware fish sculpture with amazing glaze, on a wooden base. Made by Carl-Harry Stålhane in his own studio in Lidköping, Sweden, 1970s. Excellent condition. S...

Hand built ceramic sculpture in mottled black glaze. This piece, one in a series of Modern TOTEMS has a crimped curve open top, an elongated center form, tripod legs and a luscious b...

Valérie Courtet. Sculpture in chamotte stoneware representing a crocodile carrying hippos. Work of a contemporary French artist. Dimensions: H 56 x W 30 x D 22 cm Reference: LS64...

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A beautiful set of two glazed stoneware elephant sculptures by Valérie Courtet, made around 2010. The details are truly exquisite, and the quality of the work is exceptional. Each pi...

Ritual Tray by Ilona Golovina Hand built from groggy stoneware, this sculptural tray by Ilona Golovina embodies the quiet power of ritual and the beauty of imperfection. Elevated by...

Mottled deep blue with light and dark areas, this amazing matte glaze surface was the result of a mistake in glaze chemistry and boy am I glad! It reminds me of Yves Klein Blue, a de...

Article: Ceramic pottery vase set of 2 Origin: Germany Designer: Heinz Siery Producer: Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany Decade: 1960s This set of ...

Cream white glazed ceramic bull made by Bruno Gambone in the 1970s, signed Gambone on the bottom.

Greenlandica. Hand painted unique stoneware figure. Inuit in traditional hunting clothes. circa. 1970s. In perfect condition. Signed illegibly. Dimensions: W 9.0 x H 20.5 cm.

Article: Ceramic stoneware object Designer and producer: Gerhard Liebenthron Information: Gerhard Liebenthron, Bremen 1925 †2005 Decade: 1960s This ori...

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...

One in a series of fully Hand Built Ceramic TOTEMS in Matte Black Underglazed Stoneware. This one, "First Walk On The Moon" has a full moon-like hollo...

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

One in a new series of Modern TOTEMS consisting of soft round or rectangular forms on small conical feet. The shapes begin as a solid piece. They are then hollowed out, stacked and t...

"Large Sliced Jupiter Vase" by Lauren Klenow 2024 5.5" dia. x 9.25" H Sculptural ceramic flower vase hand made by the artist using a multicolored stoneware clay. Lauren Klenow is ...

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.

Christina Muff, Danish contemporary ceramicist (b. 1971). Large cubist unique sculpture in glazed stoneware. "Silent scream". Measures: 45 x 20 cm. In excellent condition. Signe...

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

A very unusual midcentury handcrafted stoneware sculpture of an Elizabethan lady’s head, possibly Elizabeth I, wearing a period hat and ruff collar attributed to renowned artist and writer Quentin Bell (British, 1910-1996). The stoneware shoulder length head stands...

This naturalistic and dynamic scene of a deer and doe was designed by Knud Kyhn who worked for Royal Copenhagen for much of his career. Numbered 21449, incised KK.

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Untitled 19 Stoneware Sculpture by Laura Pasquino One of a kind Dimensions: D 50 x H 49 cm Material: White and beige stoneware, glaze. Laura Pasquino Incorporating references from ...

"Craie" sculptural piece in white stoneware, handcrafted by the artist Camille Le Dressay. Unique piece. Its organic design combines delicacy and modernity, with an openwork structu...

This Art Deco sculpture was produced in Italy and more precisely in Milan, by Guido Cacciapuoti in the 1930s.  The base is in ebonized wood and the sculpture, a typical Art Deco sty...

Stoneware Clay, Body I Sculpture by Aleksandra Krasnopolska Dimensions: W 21 x D 14 x H 16 cm Materials: Stoneware clay. Unglazed ceramicsulface. Weight: 2.9 kg. Collection: Body ...

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

An organic shaped stoneware sculpture by anonymous desginer from Denmark, c. 1970s.

One of the iconic early wedgwood pieces, the pair of ewers Sacred to Neptune & Sacred to Bacchus was designed by Flaxman in the 1780s for Josiah Wedgwood. They have remained popular ...

THE FOSSIL STORE™ is a unique 1.3-meter-long Paradoxides acadoparadoxides trilobite plate of scientific significance. The one-piece fossil bed shale is now set into a rustic iron fra...

Pair of Ming dynasty fish roof tiles, circa 1600.

La Linda Nedra by Elena Rakochy Artist Bio and Statement Elena Rakochy is a sculptor from Chicago, specializing in clay and drawing inspiration from nature and interpersonal connect...

Article: Ceramic pottery vase Origin: Germany, GDR Producer: Strehla, Germany GDR Decade: 1970s This original vintage pottery object was designed and ...

Sculpture designed by Vicke Lindstrand for Upsala-Ekeby in Sweden during the 1950s. Impressive size with beautiful glaze. Very rare model.

Article: Ceramic pottery vase Origin: Germany Model: ROBOT Designer: Heinz Siery Producer: Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany Decade: 1960s Th...

MALCOLM MOBUTU SMITH Currentbodies, 2013 Stoneware, slip and glaze 5 x 5 x 8 in

Stoneware relief with black decoration. Engraved MA, 67. By Mogens Andersen.

Valérie Courtet, by. White bear, in glazed and chamotte stoneware, standing. Work of a contemporary French artist. Dimensions: H 61 x W 28 x D 14 cm Reference: LS64171309P

Malcolm Mobutu Smith Uppity Uproar, 2021 Stoneware, slip and glaze Measures: 9 x 13 x 19 in.

Artefact table lamp by Lea Munsch Dimensions: W 28 x D 16 x H 49 cm Materials: Stoneware Numbered on /20. Each piece is unique with its own personality and marks. There is an openin...

Exploring new firing and glazing techniques and their myriad effects on traditional forms was an exciting approach for many experimental turn-of-the-century ceramists. Here the acid ...