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1990s Postmodern Abstract Honey Bear Sculpture Large Architectural Form
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Wonderful Minimalist bear form, golden speckle textured matte glaze. Over 1 foot high and 15 lbs.
Category
1990s American Post-Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Esther Shimazu Signed Japanese Hawaiian American Female Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Esther Shimazu's bald female sculpture. She uses hand-built techniques to construct clay figures using colored slips, oxides when firing, then hand sands them and rubs in pigments to...
Category
20th Century Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Midcentury Lumpfish in Glazed Stoneware by Axella Denmark, 1970s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Stout, chubby and charming lumpfish / lumpsucker (Cyclopterus) in glazed stoneware. Earthy brown, grey and naturally perceived color. Executed by Axella in Denmark circa 1970. Measur...
Category
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Eric Astoul, "Module, " Contemporary Stoneware Sculpture, La Borne, France, 2015
By Eric Astoul
Located in New York, NY
French ceramist Eric Astoul (b. 1954, Morocco) infuses his sculptures with the essence of ancient and modern earthenware he has encountered along his travels in France, England, Japa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
South African Collectible Design White Ceramic Table Lamp Flux 1 by Jan Ernst
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Jan Ernst is a multidisciplinary designer specializing in functional art and spatial design using clay as his main medium. The work is driven by his fascination with natural structur...
Category
2010s South African Minimalist Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Scent, or Perfume, Bottle, in Pale Blue Jasperware, Wedgwood C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A scent bottle in pale blue jasperware, with original silver CAP and dipper.
Decorated with Cupid playing the lyre, and Cupid singing. The God of L...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Antique Lipscombe & Co. Glazed Buff Terracotta Mask Head
By Lipscombe & Co.
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A late 19th century glazed buff terracotta mask head of a putto or cherub by Lipscombe & Co, modelled after Francois Duquesnoy (1597-1643).
The expressive face of this antique sculp...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
South Africa Collectible Design White Ceramic Console Mirror Flux by Jan Ernst
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Jan Ernst is a multidisciplinary designer specializing in functional art and spatial design using clay as his main medium. The work is driven by his fascination with natural structur...
Category
2010s South African Minimalist Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Set of 2 Fat Lava Pottery Vases Heinz Siery Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany, 1970s
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Ceramic pottery vases set of 2
Origin:
Germany
Designer:
Heinz Siery
Producer:
Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany
...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Ceramic, Pottery
“Fleur Noir" Ceramic Centerpiece by Halima Cassell
By Halima Cassell
Located in New York, NY
“Fleur Noir," 2015.
Hand-carved, unglazed stoneware.
Halima Cassell is an award winning ceramic artist and her work is represented in several international museums including the Vi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Ceramic
Fat Lava Ceramic Pottery Vase Heinz Siery Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany, 1970s
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Ceramic pottery vase
Origin:
Germany
Designer:
Heinz Siery
Producer:
Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany
Decade:
1970s
This original vintage...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Glazed Ceramic Owl Form Tankard with Pewter Mounts
By Mettlach
Located in Stamford, CT
An extremely charming stoneware tankard in the form of an owl. With a two toned gray and blue glaze and handsome pewter mounts. The thumb lift depict...
Category
Late 19th Century German Black Forest Antique Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Large Moonfrog Sculptural Organic Modern Vase, Knabstrup, 1972
By Knabstrup
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Glazed organic Mid-Century Modern tactile ceramic sculpture vase by Danish ceramic artist Kirsten Günther for Knabstrup in the early 1970s. Peanut brow...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Jørgen Mogensen Large & Powerful Cubist Female Sculpture for Royal Copenhagen
Located in Kastrup, DK
Jørgen Mogensen, Danish 1922-2004
Rare and unique cubist-style sculpture created by Jørgen Mogensen for Royal Copenhagen.
The sculpture stands 81 cm tall and depicts a nude woman, c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Alan Wallwork Studio Pottery Split Pod Sculpture
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Stoneware studio pottery 'split pod' form designed by Alan Wallwork (British, 1931-2019) and dating from around 1980. The heavily made sculptural pod sta...
Category
1980s English Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
“Gazelle” Tree Sculpture by Agnès Debizet, 2002
Located in London, GB
“Gazelle” Tree by Agnès Debizet, 2002
Sculpture in stoneware and porcelain slip depicting a tree and its roots, unique piece signed and dated.
Dime...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Stoneware
Glazed Ceramic Bear Sculpture by Carl Johan Bonnesen, Denmark
By Carl Johan Bonnesen
Located in Kastrup, DK
Carl Johan Bonnesen, 1868–1933
Rare and impressive unique sculpture of two courting bears, crafted in glazed ceramic with a striking copper-rich glaze featuring vivid tonal variation...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Stylized Stoneware Horse Sculpture Bertil Vallien
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1938 -
Mr. Vallien originally from Sweden had brief employment with a small Los Angeles ceramic factory in the 1960's.
While there his talents were recognized and valued, and Soon a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Danish Naive Unicorn in Raku Burnt Stoneware
Located in Esbjerg, DK
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...
Category
Early 2000s Danish Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
rare turquoise fat lava "DOTS" Ceramic Vase VEB HALDENSLEBEN, GDR Germany, 1970s
By Strehla
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Ceramic pottery vase
Origin:
Germany, GDR
Producer:
VEB Haldensleben, Germany GDR
Decade:
1970s
This original vintage pottery object was designed and produced by...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Ceramic Relief “Figures” by Pipin Henderson Denmark, 1990s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Stoneware with a bronze glaze in an iron frame
Measurements:
H: 102.5 cm / 3' 5"
W: 77 cm / 2' 7"
D: 12 cm / 4 3/4".
Category
1990s Swedish Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Iron
20th Century Sculptural Ribbed Stone Object with Matching Plate
Located in Middleburg, VA
A distinctive and weighty sculptural object from the 20th century, crafted from solid stone with a unique ribbed texture that encircles its rounded midsection. Tapering elegantly int...
Category
20th Century European Brutalist Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Alabaster
Hand Built Ceramic Challis, Matte with Black Glazed Interior
Located in New York, NY
A further examination of "The Challis" , these pieces are an offering, a gift, a ritual. Rather than a cup to be used it is a piece to be celebrated. Each one completely unique. Bu...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
A brutalist relief, ”Chalice and Fruits" stoneware by Gunvor Olin, Arabia
Located in Stockholm, SE
A brutalist still life relief, ”Chalice and Fruits," signed by Gunvor Olin-Grönqvist, was crafted during the 1960s in stoneware. The wall panel boasts an impressive size of 19 x 53.5...
Category
1960s Finnish Brutalist Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Abstract Studio Pottery Vase "Brutalist" Gerhard Liebenthron, Germany, 1980s
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Ceramic stoneware object
Designer and producer:
Gerhard Liebenthron
Information:
Gerhard Liebenthron, Bremen
*1925 †2005
Decade:
1980s
This or...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
"Black 3 Flower Vase" glazed ceramic vase by Laure Klenow, 2024, flower vessel
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Black 3 Flower Vase" by Lauren Klenow
2024
6.5" dia. x 12" H
Sculptural black ceramic flower vase hand made by the artist. Three separate openings at the top allow for unique flora...
Category
2010s Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
"Link" abstract geometric ceramic sculpture by Lauren Klenow, 2024, stoneware
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Link" by Lauren Klenow
2024
Tabletop ceramic sculpture consisting of two interlocking geometric shapes.
Hand built by the artist in using a textured beige/light brown stoneware cl...
Category
2010s Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Vintage stoneware penguin by John Seymour
By John Seymour
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Wonderful stoneware penguin sculpture signed by artist John Seymour, 1986.
Category
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Knud Kyhn Royal Copenhagen, Designed 1920's Sung Glaze Stoneware Mammoth #20207
By Knud Kyhn
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
Knud Kyhn designed this sung glazed stoneware Mammoth in the 1920's for Royal Copenhagen, Denmark.
This item was purchased 45 years ago at Georg Jensen in New York and is in 'as new...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
1920s Glazed Stoneware Pelican Sculpture
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
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...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Abstract 37cm Ceramic Studio Pottery Vase, Gerhard Liebenthron, Germany, 1979
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Ceramic stoneware object
Designer and producer:
Gerhard Liebenthron
Information:
Gerhard Liebenthron, Bremen
1925 †2005
Decade:
1970s
This original vintage Studio...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Quentin Bell Attributed Stoneware Elizabethan Lady’s Head
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
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...
Category
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Hanging Rachis With Tail, Hand Built Ceramic Mobile, Stoneware and Porcelain
Located in New York, NY
There's something about art that hangs in space rather than on the wall. This piece, "Hanging Rachis With Tail" consists of graduating stonewa...
Category
Early 2000s American Organic Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Polar Bear Sculpture by Oscar Hartung for Ego Stengods 1970
By Ego Stengods
Located in Benalmadena, ES
Fantastic Polar Bear made of stoneware designed by Oscar Hartung for Ego Stengods in the 70s.
Category
1970s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Danish Knud Kyhn Baby Bear Figurine for Royal Copenhagen
Located in Knebel, DK
Danish Knud Kyhn baby bear sculpture for Royal Copenhagen
The lively bear sculpture of a playing baby bear was created by Knud Kyhn (1880-1969) Knud Kyhn ...
Category
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Midcentury Lee Rosen for Design-Technics Brutalist Figural Stoneware Sculpture
By Lee Rosen
Located in Southampton, NJ
A mid-1960s Lee Rosen for Design-Technics brutalist, figural stoneware sculpture. The sculpture is fully signed "LEE" with the DT cipher. The work features two figures, one of which ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Organic Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Set of 2 Ceramic Pottery Vase Heinz Siery Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany, 1960s
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Ceramic pottery vase set of 2
Origin:
Germany
Designer:
Heinz Siery
Producer:
Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany
Decade:
1960s
This set of ...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Wedgwood Black Basalt Figure of Rousseau
By Wedgwood
Located in New Orleans, LA
One of history’s greatest thinkers, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is the subject of this black basalt figure by Wedgwood. The individual features and personality of the celebrated philosoph...
Category
19th Century English Antique Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Brampton Rare Salt Glazed Stoneware Model of Two Saddled Horses
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A charming unusual and rare antique English Brampton salt glazed model of two saddled horses dating from around 1830/40. The stoneware model shows the horses standing closely alongsi...
Category
1830s English Regency Antique Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Royal Copenhagen Stoneware Elephant and Bear by Knud Kyhn, 1950s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
This series of elephants / mammoths, bears, deers etc was designed by the Danish ceramist Knud Kyhn (KK) all the way back in 1929-36. Hugely inspired by the sung glazes applied in Ax...
Category
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Stoneware Sculpture on Steel Base with Glaze in Grey-White-Black, signed ZAULI
By Carlo Zauli
Located in Salzburg, AT
Turned stoneware sculpture on a steel base with iridescent glaze in grey-white-black.
Lively object with different structures and glazes, signed Zauli
Carlo Zauli was born in Fen...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Huge George Roby Stoneware Sculpture "Curved Image"
By George Roby
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A monumental example of abstract expressionism translated into clay.George Roby is an Ohio Potter,he studied at Cranbrook and his work is part of the permanent collection of the Clev...
Category
1960s American Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Large Spherical Stoneware Flower Vase by Ingeborg and Bruno Asshoff 'c. 1960s'
Located in London, GB
Large spherical stoneware vase by Ingeborg and Bruno Asshoff (circa 1960s). A multi-hued overflow glaze with mulberry and turquoise sections over olive, o...
Category
1960s German Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Ceramic Figurine Monkey, Gunnar Nylund, Rörstrand, 1950-1960s Lovely Glaze
Located in Stockholm, SE
A sculpture of a deer in ceramic designed by Gunnar Nylund at Rörstrand. It is 27,5 x 16.5 cm (11" x 6.6") and 21.5 cm (8.6") high. It is in excellent condition and comes with the or...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Contemporary Ceramic "Geode" Sculpture by Agnès Debizet, 2020
Located in London, GB
"Coupe Geode" Sculpture by Agnès Debizet, 2020
Impressive and large stoneware bowl or cup covered with porcelain slip and glass. Evoking a rounded, hollow stone or rock, the inter...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Stoneware, Glass
GUIDO CACCIAPUOTI - Grés d'arte - Made in Italy 1940.
Located in Milano, IT
An original piece is of great quality and design, signed GUIDO CACCIAPUOTI, made in the 1940s and published in the various books concerning the production of this author.
Category
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
1965 Sculpture "Le Hibou" in Stone and Metal Signed J.Maugeais and Dated 1965
By J. Maugeais
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Sculpture "The Owl" in stone and metal signed J. Maugeais and dated 1965.
The bust of the owl is represented by a slate stone, the other parts of the body, the head, the wings and t...
Category
1960s French Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Wrought Iron
Abstract Ceramic Studio Pottery Vase by Gerhard Liebenthron, Germany, 1980s
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Ceramic stoneware object
Designer and producer:
Gerhard Liebenthron
Information:
Gerhard Liebenthron, Bremen
1925 †2005
Decade:
1970s
This original vintage Studio...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Walter Bosse Huge Pottery Ceramic Horse Sculpture, Austria, 1950s
By Walter Bosse
Located in Vienna, AT
A lovely and huge handmade figurine / statue displaying a horse dated from 1947 to 1951. Designed by Walter Bosse, made of ceramic / terracotta in Kufst...
Category
Mid-20th Century Austrian Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta, Stoneware, Pottery, Ceramic
xxl Fat Lava Floor Ceramic Pottery Floor Vase by Fritz van Daalen, Germany 1960s
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Ceramic pottery vase
Origin:
Germany
Designer:
Fritz van Daalen
Producer:
Fritz van Daalen, Germany
Decade:
1960s
This original vinta...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
3 Rectangular Ovals on Short Angled Legs, Metallic Black-Glaze Clay Sculpture #2
Located in New York, NY
This tall "Modern Totem" sculpture consists of softly rectangular rings stacked one on top of the other, on short angled feet. Another smaller angled foot shape is replicated above u...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Contemporary Ceramic Centerpiece by Dominique Legros, 2021
Located in London, GB
Centerpiece Sculpture made of stoneware by Dominique Legros
Unique piece, signed.
Material: Soneware, hand-polish
Dimensions: H 16 x 30 x 29 cm
Y...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Organic Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Abstract Ceramic Studio Pottery Object by Gerhard Liebenthron, Germany, 1970s
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Ceramic stoneware object
Designer and producer:
Gerhard Liebenthron
Information:
Gerhard Liebenthron, Bremen
1925-2005
Decade:
1970s
This origin...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Knud Kyhn for Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Baby Bear Figurine, Scandinavian Modern
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Porcelain playing baby bear was designed by Knud Kyhn for Royal Copenhagen as a part of the series created in 1940s-1950s. The small bear modeled lying on its back huddled up with i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Stoneware
White Winged Crown, 4 Part Ceramic TOTEM, Hand Built Sculpture by H. Starcevic
Located in New York, NY
A tall, hand built ceramic Modern TOTEM, created by artist Helena Starcevic, this is one in an ongoing study of the totemic form. Here, there are 4 separate parts hand-formed and att...
Category
2010s American Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Eric James Mellon Studio Pottery Raku Glazed Horse Head, 1982
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine stoneware small horse head sculpture raku glazed in bright blue and white glazes with a black craquelure finish by renowned ceramic artist Eric James Mellon (British, 192...
Category
1980s English Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Sculpture Ceramic Fish - Gunnar Nylund - Rörstrand
Located in Stockholm, SE
A lovely fish sculpture in ceramic designed by Gunnar Nylund at Rörstrand. It is 16.5 cm (6.6") high. It is in excellent condition except from some chips on the fish mouth.
Gunnar ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Handbuilt Ceramic Sculpture, Pod Composite 'Black Coal' in Matte Black
Located in New York, NY
Hand Built Ceramic Sculpture, "Black Coal". A composite of hollow, elongated, pointed oval or elliptical shapes, individually hand-formed clay parts, attached together and fused during the firing. This is a dark stoneware with a black underglaze revealing all the scrapes and marks of the clay underneath. The individual parts are all different, together they create a landscape inspired by the huge bare boulders of the Anza Borrego...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
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