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Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

ART NOUVEAU STYLE

In its sinuous lines and flamboyant curves inspired by the natural world, antique Art Nouveau furniture reflects a desire for freedom from the stuffy social and artistic strictures of the Victorian era. The Art Nouveau movement developed in the decorative arts in France and Britain in the early 1880s and quickly became a dominant aesthetic style in Western Europe and the United States.

ORIGINS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN

CHARACTERISTICS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN

  • Sinuous, organic and flowing lines
  • Forms that mimic flowers and plant life
  • Decorative inlays and ornate carvings of natural-world motifs such as insects and animals 
  • Use of hardwoods such as oak, mahogany and rosewood

ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

ANTIQUE ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS

Art Nouveau — which spanned furniture, architecture, jewelry and graphic design — can be easily identified by its lush, flowing forms suggested by flowers and plants, as well as the lissome tendrils of sea life. Although Art Deco and Art Nouveau were both in the forefront of turn-of-the-20th-century design, they are very different styles — Art Deco is marked by bold, geometric shapes while Art Nouveau incorporates dreamlike, floral motifs. The latter’s signature motif is the "whiplash" curve — a deep, narrow, dynamic parabola that appears as an element in everything from chair arms to cabinetry and mirror frames.

The visual vocabulary of Art Nouveau was particularly influenced by the soft colors and abstract images of nature seen in Japanese art prints, which arrived in large numbers in the West after open trade was forced upon Japan in the 1860s. Impressionist artists were moved by the artistic tradition of Japanese woodblock printmaking, and Japonisme — a term used to describe the appetite for Japanese art and culture in Europe at the time — greatly informed Art Nouveau. 

The Art Nouveau style quickly reached a wide audience in Europe via advertising posters, book covers, illustrations and other work by such artists as Aubrey Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha. While all Art Nouveau designs share common formal elements, different countries and regions produced their own variants.

In Scotland, the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh developed a singular, restrained look based on scale rather than ornament; a style best known from his narrow chairs with exceedingly tall backs, designed for Glasgow tea rooms. Meanwhile in France, Hector Guimard — whose iconic 1896 entry arches for the Paris Metro are still in use — and Louis Majorelle produced chairs, desks, bed frames and cabinets with sweeping lines and rich veneers. 

The Art Nouveau movement was known as Jugendstil ("Youth Style") in Germany, and in Austria the designers of the Vienna Secession group — notably Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich — produced a relatively austere iteration of the Art Nouveau style, which mixed curving and geometric elements.

Art Nouveau revitalized all of the applied arts. Ceramists such as Ernest Chaplet and Edmond Lachenal created new forms covered in novel and rediscovered glazes that produced thick, foam-like finishes. Bold vases, bowls and lighting designs in acid-etched and marquetry cameo glass by Émile Gallé and the Daum Freres appeared in France, while in New York the glass workshop-cum-laboratory of Louis Comfort Tiffany — the core of what eventually became a multimedia decorative-arts manufactory called Tiffany Studios — brought out buoyant pieces in opalescent favrile glass. 

Jewelry design was revolutionized, as settings, for the first time, were emphasized as much as, or more than, gemstones. A favorite Art Nouveau jewelry motif was insects (think of Tiffany, in his famed Dragonflies glass lampshade).

Like a mayfly, Art Nouveau was short-lived. The sensuous, languorous style fell out of favor early in the 20th century, deemed perhaps too light and insubstantial for European tastes in the aftermath of World War I. But as the designs on 1stDibs demonstrate, Art Nouveau retains its power to fascinate and seduce.

There are ways to tastefully integrate a touch of Art Nouveau into even the most modern interior — browse an extraordinary collection of original antique Art Nouveau furniture on 1stDibs, which includes decorative objects, seating, tables, garden elements and more.

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Style: Art Nouveau
Fine Josef Hoffman Wiener Werkstätte Art Nouveau box Austria 1912
Located in Vienna, AT
Fine and distinguished box, designed by the “Hero” of the Wiener Werkstatte, Josef Hoffmann. Made of nickel plated brass, leaves and stars in the pattern. This box is not marked, but...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Brass, Nickel

1940s Alabaster Bust Of A Young Woman On A Marble Base
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1940s Art Nouveau Style Bust Of A Young Woman On A Marble Base The sheaf of wheat represents fertility No signature found Small knick on the top of hat (as shown)
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1940s Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Alabaster

Art Nouveau Drip Glazed Ceramic Bud Vase
By Faience Manufacturing Company
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Antique drip glazed ceramic bud vase in rich earth tones. A classic example of Art Nouveau earthenware. Controlled drip has a lovely ombre effect that graduates from mohagany, to pale peach, and into aubergine with a dark finish at the bottom. Attributed to Faiencerie Thulin...
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Early 20th Century Belgian Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Ceramic, Faience

Albert Chezal French Art Nouveau Pewter Box with Lilac Decor
Located in Atlanta, GA
Albert Chezal designed this stunning Art Nouveau, distinctly illustrated, dinanderie-pewter-covered box, handcrafted in France's Etains d'Art workshop around 1910. The large, hand-wr...
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1910s French Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Metal, Pewter

Jugendstil art glass vase by Wilhelm Kralik Sohne
Located in Banská Štiavnica, SK
Jugendstil art glass vase by Wilhelm Kralik Sohne in silver plated brass mount.
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Silver Plate, Brass

Art Nouveau Majolica Jardiniere Flowerpot Cache-pot Rörstrand Sweden 1890
Located in Uppsala , SE
Art Nouveau Swedish majolica Rörstrand Antique Swedish Majolica Jardinière Cache Pot Flowerpot Direct from Sweden, a beautiful antique 19th century majolica jardinière or cache-p...
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Late 19th Century Swedish Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Ceramic

Pair of head sculptures Franz Hagenauer Werkstatte Hagenauer Wien circa 1981
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
Pair of head sculptures, Franz Hagenauer, Werkstatte Hagenauer Wien, ca. 1981, marked Beginning in the 1970s, and inspired by his contact with students at the University of Applied ...
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1980s Austrian Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Brass

French Art Nouveau Gilded Bronze of a Mermaid Holding a Shell by Louchet Foundry
Located in Sarasota, FL
French Art Nouveau gilt bronze of a mermaid holding a shell. Possibly used as a card tr fonay. Fine detail and casting. Stamped for Louchet, Phearis foundry on the back of the base.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Gold, Bronze

Gallé Signed, Set of Acid Etched Double Overlay Cameo Vases, 1920
Located in Rijssen, NL
This exquisite Art Nouveau set vases by Émile Gallé in Nancy are statement pieces in the room. Signed Gallé. Original Acid Etched Double Overlay Cameo Vase. In purple over beige and...
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1920s French Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Glass

Art Nouveau Perfume Bottle with Ornate Flora and Monogrammed Sterling Overlay
Located in Louisville, KY
This beautiful piece of functional art is a gorgeous reflection of the Art Nouveau era from which it came. Used primarily as a perfume bottle, this stunning work of art was created b...
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Late 19th Century American Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Sterling Silver

20th Century French Sculpture
Located in Atlanta, GA
This charming early 20th-century French sculpture combines the elegance of gilt bronze and the lifelike detail of ivory to create a captivating piece. Depicting a young child in peri...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Marble, Bronze

19th Century Majolica Purple Iris Cache Pot Delphin Massier
Located in Austin, TX
Rare 19th century Majolica purple iris cache pot Delphin Massier. The Massier family are known for the quality of their unique enamels and paintings. They produced an incredible who...
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1890s French Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Ceramic

Art Nouveau Gres Bijou Three-Handled Vase by RStK Amphora with Gilding
Located in Chicago, US
Model #3356 Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel (RSt&K), consistently marked pieces with the tradename “Amphora” by the late 1890s and became known by that name. The Amphora pottery fa...
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Earthenware, Glass

Art Nouveau Gres Bijou Butterfly & Spiderweb Tall Semiramis Vase by RStK Amphora
Located in Chicago, US
Model #3771 Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel (RSt&K), consistently marked pieces with the tradename “Amphora” by the late 1890s and became known by that name. The Amphora pottery fa...
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Earthenware, Glass

Franz Xaver Bergmann, Koran Scribe, Vienna Bronze Sculpture, Ca. 1900
Located in New York, NY
This wonderful life-like sculpture depicts a Koran scriber, who, bending his legs under him, holds sheets of paper in his hands, on which he transcribes verses from the Koran lying i...
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1890s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Bronze

Small Hans Müller Art Nouveau Bronze Cabinet Sculpture/Bust of a Half-Clad Woman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine, small-scale antique Art Nouveau cabinet bronze. In the form of a half-naked young woman in three-quarter profile. Likely an allegory to Summer or The Harvest (or possibly a...
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Early 20th Century Unknown Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Bronze

Unusual Unger Brothers Sterling Jester Letter Opener
Located in Riverdale, NY
Rare and Unusual Unger Brothers Jester Sterling Letter Opener from the 1900's. Wonderful detailing and unusual subject matter. 1900 USA. 9.5" x 1.85" x 1.25".
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Early 1900s American Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Sterling Silver

Art Nouveau Gilt Bronze Female Nude Statue by Georges Flamand.
Located in Sarasota, FL
Art Nouveau gilded bronze nude statue by George Flamand. Very fine period work. Sits on 3 3./4" square base. Signed "FLAMAND"
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Late 19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Gold Plate, Bronze

Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Glass "Hearts and Vines Vase" by Louis Tiffany
Located in London, GB
An impressive early 20th Century American iridescent glass vase of slender form with green hearts shining through an attractive golden iridescence, signed L C Tiffany Favrile and numbered to base. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 23 cm Condition: Very Good Condition Circa: 1905 Materials: Iridescent Coloured Glass SKU: 6667 ABOUT Louis Comfort Tiffany Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. Tiffany was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewellery, enamels and metalwork. Early Life He was born in New York City, New York, the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany and Company; and Harriet Olivia Avery Young. He attended school at Pennsylvania Military Academy in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. His first artistic training was as a painter, studying under George Inness in Eagleswood, New Jersey and Samuel Colman in Irvington, New York. He also studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1866-67 and with salon painter Leon-Adolphe-Auguste Belly in 1868-69. Belly’s landscape paintings had a great influence on Tiffany. Career Louis started out as a painter, but became interested in glassmaking from about 1875 and worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn between then and 1878. In 1879, he joined with Candace Wheeler, Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists. The business was short-lived, lasting only four years. The group made designs for wallpaper, furniture, and textiles. He later opened his own glass factory in Corona, New York, determined to provide designs that improved the quality of contemporary glass. Tiffany’s leadership and talent, as well as his father’s money and connections, led this business to thrive. In 1881 Tiffany did the interior design of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, which still remains, but the new firm’s most notable work came in 1882 when President Chester Alan Arthur refused to move into the White House until it had been redecorated. He commissioned Tiffany, who had begun to make a name for himself in New York society for the firm’s interior design work, to redo the state rooms, which Arthur found charmless. He worked on the East Room, the Blue Room, the Red Room, the State Dining Room and the Entrance Hall, refurnishing, repainting in decorative patterns, installing newly designed mantelpieces, changing to wallpaper with dense patterns and, of course, adding Tiffany glass to gaslight fixtures, windows and adding an opalescent floor-to-ceiling glass screen in the Entrance Hall. The Tiffany screen and other Victorian additions were all removed in the Roosevelt renovations of 1902, which restored the White House interiors to Federal style in keeping with its architecture. A desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885 when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm that same year. The first Tiffany Glass Company was incorporated December 1, 1885 and in 1902 became known as the Tiffany Studios. In the beginning of his career, he used cheap jelly jars and bottles because they had the mineral impurities that finer glass lacked. When he was unable to convince fine glassmakers to leave the impurities in, he began making his own glass. Tiffany used opalescent glass in a variety of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass. He developed the “copper foil” technique, which, by edging each piece of cut glass in copper foil and soldering the whole together to create his windows and lamps, made possible a level of detail previously unknown. This can be contrasted with the method of painting in enamels or glass paint on colorless glass, and then setting the glass pieces in lead channels, that had been the dominant method of creating stained glass for hundreds of years in Europe. (The First Presbyterian Church building of 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is unique in that it uses Tiffany windows that partially make use of painted glass.) Use of the colored glass itself to create stained glass pictures was motivated by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and its leader William Morris in England. Fellow artists and glassmakers Oliver Kimberly and Frank Duffner, founders of the Duffner and Kimberly Company and John La Farge were Tiffany’s chief competitors in this new American style of stained glass. Tiffany, Duffner and Kimberly, along with La Farge, had learned their craft at the same glasshouses in Brooklyn in the late 1870s. In 1889 at the Paris Exposition, he is said to have been “Overwhelmed” by the glass work of Émile Gallé, French Art Nouveau artisan. He also met artist Alphonse Mucha. In 1893, Tiffany built a new factory called the Stourbridge Glass Company, later called Tiffany Glass Furnaces, which was located in Corona, Queens, New York, hiring the Englishman Arthur J. Nash to oversee it. In 1893, his company also introduced the term Favrilein conjunction with his first production of blown glass at his new glass factory. Some early examples of his lamps were exhibited in the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. At the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, he won a gold medal with his stained glass windows The Four Seasons He trademarked Favrile (from the old French word for handmade) on November 13, 1894. He later used this word to apply to all of his glass, enamel and pottery. His first commercially produced lamps date from around 1895. Much of his company’s production was in making stained glass windows and Tiffany lamps, but his company designed a complete range of interior decorations. At its peak, his factory employed more than 300 artisans. Recent scholarship led by Rutgers professor Martin Eidelberg suggests that a team of talented single women designers – sometimes referred to as the “Tiffany Girls” – led by Clara Driscoll played a big role in designing many of the floral patterns on the famous Tiffany...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Glass

Amphora Art Nouveau Vase with Pine Cone Motif by Paul Dachsel for Kunstkeramik
Located in Chicago, US
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 defau...
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Earthenware

Antique German Cast Iron Christmas Tree Stand with Angel and Cherub Motif
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This stunning antique German cast iron Christmas tree stand features a richly detailed design, adorned with angel and cherub motifs. The cylindrical ...
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Early 1900s German Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Iron

Art Nouveau Celtic Hound Casket Repoussé Box by Alfred Daguet
Located in Chicago, US
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 defau...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Enamel, Steel, Brass

Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase With Flowers, Gallé, 1900s
Located in Lisbon, PT
This exquisite Art Nouveau vase by Émile Gallé features acid-etched clematis flowers and leaves in warm brown and amber tones over a yellow ground. The design is meticulously carved ...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Art Glass

Art Nouveau Figural Double Sided Hotel Front Desk Call Bell
Located in Milan, IT
Splendid Art Nouveau Young Boy Figural Double Sided Hotel Front Desk Call Bell Marked Dep.
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1920s French Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Metal, Chrome

Art Nouveau Frosted Glass Cachepot w/ Foliate Sterling Overlay by Emile Lanlois
Located in New York, NY
This elegant Art Nouveau Cachepot was realized by the esteemed silversmith Emile Langlois in France circa 1900. It offers a subtly conical form with stylized foliate forms, suggestiv...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Sterling Silver

Antique Bohemian Egermann Cut to Clear Vine and Hunt Scene Vase, 19th Century
Located in Bochum, NRW
This Bohemian crystal glass vase was crafted in the late 19th century by Fredrich Egermann manufactory. This splendid glass vase has been finely engraved with the grindstone to depic...
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1880s Czech Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Crystal

Large Antique Tiffany Favrile Art Glass Bowl
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine, antique Tiffany & Co. Favrile glass bowl with a principally orange iridescent finish. The polished pontil on base bears a factory sticker. ...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Art Glass

small Jugendstil Austrian Art Nouveau bowl ar. 1910 lion crest red clay signed
Located in Landshut, BY
Beautiful & quite unique Austrian Art Nouveau Bowl " LION CREST " red clay The design of the motif is typical of Alpine Art Nouveau Production Period around 1915 Country of Manuf...
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1910s German Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Stoneware

Fratelli Toso Murano Antique Tall Millefiori Flowers Italian Art Glass Vase
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful and large, antique Murano hand blown Millefiori Murrina flower mosaic Italian art glass double handles vase. Documented to the Fratelli Toso company, circa 1900-1920. Amazi...
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Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Murrine

Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Amphora Pine Cone Vase by, Paul Dachsel
Located in Englewood, NJ
A Monumental Austrian Art Nouveau Amphora "Pine Cone" Ceramic Vase decorated with applied pine cone decoration against Green Blue Matte glaze and further enameled gilt. The vase is...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Ceramic

Émile Gallé Marquetry "Mayfly and Ferns" Coffret
Located in New York, NY
The motifs on this coffret by Émile Gallé depict a mayfly flitting among a bed of ferns. Hatching in summer and living only a few hours before mating and dying, the mayfly has long s...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Fruitwood

Bronze Cat Figurine by Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
This exquisite bronze figurine from the early 1900s, by renowned French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet, depicts a seated cat with exceptional elegance and realism. The sculpture captures ...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Bronze

Muller Freres Cameo Glass, Wheel Cut and Applied Glass Vase
Located in Sarasota, FL
Early and rare Muller cameo glass vase, circ 1907-1914. Heavily applied cameo glass with wheel cut finish. Applied outside decoration. Red, brown and whit...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Glass

Antique 1918 Hand-Painted Porcelain Vase Signed Floral Art Nouveau Style
Located in Seattle, WA
Hand-painted porcelain vase marked Imperial PSLAustria and signed by the artist, likely dated 1918. The body features a matte celadon glaze with hand-detailed florals and basket moti...
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1910s Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Porcelain

Le Verre Francais ( Plant Rubaniers ) Style: Art Nouveau, Jugendstil
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Vase Le Verre Francais acid worked Le Verre cameo glass was a separate line of art glass designed by Charles Schneider. Its production was made at the same time as the Schneider des...
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1920s French Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Art Glass

Art Nouveau Sculpture "The Invincable" by Arthur Strasser for RStK Amphora
By Reissner Stellmacher & Kessel, Arthur Strasser
Located in Chicago, US
Model #8190. Note: We highly recommend shipping through 1stDibs for its cost effectiveness, full insurance coverage, and reliable handling. While standard parcel services are an opt...
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Earthenware

Vintage Decorative Jesus Metal Statue on Ebonized Wooden Base, Germany 1910s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A classic decorative Jesus statue. Some wear with a nice patina, but this is old-age. Made of a kind of Metal (probably white metal) on a wooden base. Ver...
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1910s German Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Metal

Glazed Ceramic rooster. Czech, early 20th century.
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Glazed Ceramic rooster. Czech, early 20th century.
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Early 20th Century Czech Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Ceramic

Majolica Iris Vase Massier, circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
Tall Majolica iris vase Massier unsigned of the end of 19th century. Art Nouveau period.
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1880s French Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Ceramic

L C Tiffany Blue Miniature Favrile Glass Vase, Signed
Located in Worcester Park, GB
A very rare organic ribbed Louis Comfort Tiffany blue Favrile miniature vase in the Jugendstil style. Beautifully signed 'L. C. Tiffany Inc Favrile' Then (indistinctly) '7168 U' and ...
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1910s American Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Art Glass

Emile Galle Art Glass Cameo Vase
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is an Emile Galle Art Glass Cameo Vase. It is an elongated ovoid shaped vase. It has a frosted orange glass at the upper top highlighted by differ...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Art Glass

Huge Charles Schneider Le Verre Francais French Art Nouveau Dahlia Glass Vase
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A monumentally large Charles Schneider French art glass floor vase. In the 'decor Dahlia' pattern. The vase has a pink and purple palette and i...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Art Glass

Art Nouveau Majolica Vase by Gerbing & Stephan, Bohemia circa 1910
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
Remarkable rare Art Nouveau Majolica vase by Gerbing & Stephan from the early period in Bohemia around 1910. The beautiful shaped grey blue c...
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Early 20th Century Czech Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Majolica

"Honoring Svatopluk Čech", Art Nouveau Relief Plaque w/ Male & Female Nudes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fine and unusual example of Czech Art Nouveau sculpture -- complete with male and female nudes in profile, and a border of pine branches -- features at its center a portrait of ...
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1910s Czech Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Pewter

Friedrich Goldscheider '1845-1897', Bust of Moor, Polychrome Terracotta, 1890
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Friedrich Goldscheider (1845 - 1897). Bust of Moor. Polychrome terracotta. Marked reserved and numbered reproduction. circa 1890.  
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Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Terracotta

Vintage Steuben 'Pomona' Green Art Glass Bowl
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine vintage signed American art glass bowl. By Steuben. In the 'Pomona' green glass pattern. Model no. 6241. With a ribbed swirl pattern throughout. With a pontil mark to th...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Art Glass

Art Nouveau Water Lily Vase w/Frog & Fly by Eduard Stellmacher & Co.
Located in Chicago, US
Model #5 Eduard Stellmacher and Co, Porzellanfabrik und Kunstkeramische Industriewerke Driven to establish a new company that produced luxury porcelain and ceramic items based on h...
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Earthenware

Jugendstil Austrian Bronze Oriental Woman with Bowl Sculpture by Franz Bergmann
Located in North Miami, FL
1900s Jugendstil cold-painted bronze sculpture of an oriental woman with a fruit bowl by Franz Bergmann, Austria By: Franz Bergmann Material: bronze, copper, tin, metal, paint Techn...
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Metal, Bronze, Copper, Tin

1940s Lauritz Hjorth Gray and Rose Vide-Poche, Denmark
Located in Copenhagen, DK
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....
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Mid-20th Century Danish Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware

Vintage Mid-Century Jozefina Krosno Octopus Glass Pedestal Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is very heavy fabulous piece of Fabulously flowing free form design. The ribbons of glass wrap around like an octopus tendrils when you see it from the side. Fabulous abstract d...
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Late 20th Century Polish Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Blown Glass

Mid 20th century German art Nevo style polished steel and brass trinket box
Located in Allentown, PA
This is a mid 20th century beautifully handcrafted Art Nouveau polished steel and brass trinket box or lock box. This box has beautifully handcrafted polished steel art...
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1950s German Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Brass

Art Nouveau Vase, signed by LeGras, 1900
Located in Zurich, CH
The Legras vases, from around 1900, feature white glass overlaid with violet and green, etched with delicate wisteria motifs. Signed by the renowned French glassmaker Legras, these v...
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Glass

Antique Art Nouveau Daum Nancy Cameo Glass Vase
By Daum
Located in Bochum, NRW
Antique Art Nouveau Daum Nancy Cameo Glass Vase, France circa 1910. Multilayered glass cameo vase with exquisite detailed decor of flowers and leaves etched in purple glass against a...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Glass

Tiffany Studios New York Bronze and Green Glass Inkwell
Located in New York, NY
Among the most visually alluring and technically excellent of all Tiffany Studios New York's desk accessories, the exciting design for this refined but robustly rounded inkwell features green blown glass in pinched triangular forms that appear to dance in perfectly coordinated movement around the circumference of the piece. The negative space between the blown green glass appears in the form of stylized flowers with Minimalist linear accents in patinated bronze. Artist: Tiffany Studios New York Country: United States circa 1900 Dimensions: 3.75" height, 6.25" diameter Materials: Leaded glass, bronze Signed: "Tiffany Studios New York 25055” along with the Tiffany Studios monogram...
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Early 1900s American Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Bronze

Artist-Signed Brass Pair Abstract Bird Sculptures
Located in Round Top, TX
Elegant curved, artist-signed abstract bird sculptures. Signed "Ogden 82". Figure #1: 15"W x 3.13"D x 19"H Figure #2: 19"W x 4.25"D x 18.5"H Attributed to Samuel (Sam) Ogden (192...
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Late 20th Century American Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Brass

Art Nouveau Dante Alighieri Bust Antique Italy, 1900s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Beautiful Art Nouveau bronzed colored plaster bust. Bust with lots of patina, damages, as found condition, this adds lots of character to the item. A nice addition in every living ro...
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Early 1900s Italian Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Plaster

1900 Rosewood Box Art Nouveau by Erhard & Soehne
Located in Marseille, FR
Box rosewood and brass inlay cover Art Nouveau by Erhard and Soehne, circa 1900.
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Copper

Vienna Art Ceramics Art Nouveau Bowl 'Goose Dance' by Michael Mörtl ca 1910
Located in Vienna, AT
Art Nouveau ceramic centerpiece, twelve geese designed in a circle to form a bowl. White earthenware painted in color and glazed. Designed by Michael MÖRTL (1878 - 1939) around 190...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Ceramic

Set of Exquise XL Vases, Deep Rose Red Crystal, Czech Republic and France, 1960
By OTHR
Located in Rijssen, NL
Glorifying the effects of refracted light for a long time, the iconic Bohemian vases are well-known all over the world. A crystal masterpiece set of exceptional proportions, the set...
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1950s French Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Crystal

Antique French Animalier Bronze Marble Greyhound Sculpture Desk Paperweight 1900
Located in Portland, OR
A very handsome antique French Animalier bronze greyhound sculpture, paperweight, circa 1900. The bronze in the style of Emmanuel Fremiet, mad...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Marble, Bronze

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