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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
Jugendstil J.P. Kayser Inkstand / Inkwell with Great Hamlet & Skull Sculpture
Located in Lisse, NL
Stunning and important Kayserzinn pewter inkwell, designed by Hugo Leven. Who, in this day and age, would ask a top quality sculptor to design and execute a stunning sculpture with ...
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Early 20th Century German Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Metal

WMF Ignatius Taschner Jugendstil Copper and Brass Goat & Sleigh Candleholder
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare and unusual German Jugendstil copper and brass smokers companion or candleholder formed as a goat pulling a sleigh the design attributed to renowned sculptor Ignatius Taschner...
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Early 1900s German Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Brass, Copper

Viking Soldier Decorative Bronze Statue Sculpture, Vienna Austria 1950s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A gorgeous classic decorative Statue or Miniature Sculpture. Some wear with a nice patina, but this is old-age. Made of a kind of metal, we think it's bronze or brass. Very decorativ...
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1950s Austrian Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Metal

Amalric Walter and Daum Nancy "Crabe" Pâte de Verre Glass Paperweight
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite “Crabe” pâte de verre glass paperweight, by Amalric Walter and Daum Nancy is decorated with a relief of a reddish-brown crab poised upon a bright contrast of green and...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Glass

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

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

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

Fratelli Toso Murano Antique Fenicio Blue Orange White Italian Art Glass Vase
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful antique Murano hand blown cobalt and sky blue, orange, and white Italian art glass decorative double handle cabinet vase. Documented to the Fratelli Toso company, circa 190...
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Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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

Art Nouveau Stoneware Copper Drip Bowl in Silver Mount by Auguste Delaherche
By Auguste Delaherche, Antoine Cardeilhac, Hughes-Paul-Lucien Bonvallet
Located in Chicago, US
Model #3289. Mount designed by Lucien Bonvallet (1861-1919), Metalsmith: Antoine-Ernest Cardeilach (1851-1904) Auguste Delaherche turned the science of experimentation in ceramic w...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Silver

1920's Hand-Crafted Danish Art Nouveau Pekingese Dog Ash Tray / Bowl
Located in Knebel, DK
1920's Hand-Crafted Danish Art Nouveau Pekingese Dog Ash Tray / Bowl by P. Ipsens Enke. The art nuveau ash tray / bowl feature a well made lively pekingese dog and was designed by...
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Early 20th Century Danish Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Ceramic

Liberty Sculpture in Bronze and Marble, Signed: Beer
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Liberty sculpture in Bronze and marble. French-Austrian sculptor, Friedrich Solomon Beer (1846-1912) Friedrich Salomon Beer (1846-1912) was a promin...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Daum Nancy "Paysage d’été" Cameo Glass Vase
By Daum
Located in New York, NY
Daum’s "Paysage d’été" vase captures the willow tree in the fullness of summer, its pollarded branches bursting into dense green foliage. Silhouetted against a vivid red-orange sunse...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

Materials

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

Materials

Majolica

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

20th Century Glass Sculpture entitled "Chat Reposé" by Marc Lalique
Located in London, GB
A wonderful mid 20th Century frosted glass figure of a crouching cat with good hand finished surface detail, signed Lalique France ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: ...
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Late 20th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

Materials

Glass

Daum Crystal Pate de Verre Flower Bowl
By Daum
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This a Daum crystal Pate de Verre single flower (it can be a Groundsel) and large leaves bowl depicting different shades of blue and turquoi...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Crystal

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

Carlsbad Austrian Art Nouveau Porcelain Iridesecent Vase, Late 19th Century
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Art Nouveau period iridescent porcelain vase In the manner of Loetz By Carlsbad Porcelain Austria, Late 19th Century Measures: 4.5"W x 4.5"D x 8.5"H. Very good origin...
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Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Porcelain

Art Nouveau Alpaca Matchstick Case, Vintage Austria, Monogram J.P.
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Beautiful Art Nouveau matchstick holder case by an Austrian manufacturer. Silver plated alpaca. with makers mark, year around 1910s or older. With J.P. monogram. Some minor dings and...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Silver Plate

French Post Office Mailbox - Cast Iron - Delachanal Model - Late 19th Century
Located in BARSAC, FR
Public mailbox of the French Post Office Model in molded cast iron manufactured by Delachanal in Paris - Late 19th Century Good general condition - presented in its original conditi...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Iron

Sign: Le Verre Francais ( Flowers Dahlias) Style: Art Nouveau, Liberty
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

Materials

Art Glass

French Copper & Wood Desk Art Nouveau Ink Blotter, circa 1920
Located in Labrit, Landes
French ink blotter for blooting paper Made circa 1900, in wood and embossed copper Vegetal motifs To be placed on a desk or a side table. Good antique condition
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Copper

Italian Early 20th C. Glass Grape Bunch Pendant Light (2 available)
Located in San Francisco, CA
A vibrant pendant light from the 1920s; ruddy-red to amber, Venetian glass grape bunches with detailed green and pink leaves. The grapes are hanging from a green, patinated brass "vi...
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Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

Materials

Brass

H. Copillet Et Cie Art Nouveau Iridescent Art Glass Bud Vase
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous antique Art Nouveau iridescent art glass bud vase By H. Copillet Et Cie (signed to the underside) France, Circa 1900 Measures: 4"W x 4"D x 4.75"H. Very good original v...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Art Glass

19th Century French Majolica Egg Vase Delphin Massier
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century French Majolica Egg shaped Vase Delphin Massier. Decorated with flowers a daisy ,a pansy and a wild rose. H / 4.3 inches. The Massier family are known for the quality of...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Ceramic, Faience, Majolica

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

Austrian Loetz Iridescent Art Nouveau Glass Vase Sterling Overlay
Located in Toledo, OH
Austrian Loetz iridescent art glass vase in papillon finish with sterling silver applied overlay. Art Nouveau style in a dimpled form shades of green ...
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Early 20th Century European Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

Materials

Glass

Cristallerie de Pantin Vase Art Nouveau Decor Floral
Located in NANTES, FR
Art Nouveau vase around 1910. In perfect condition. Decorated with chrisenthems. Rose-colored leaves, buds, and flower clusters executed in two layers on colorless ground, signed on ...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Glass

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

Red Rubin Murano Glass Decorative Bowl Style of Zecchin Cappellin 1920s Italy
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Glass red Rubin Murano glass bowl in the style of Vittorio Zecchin Cappellin 1920s Italy, note the decoration as if it were an embroidery, it has decorations with typical Venetian mo...
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1920s Italian Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Murano Glass

Sculpture Giant Amphora Vase Majolica Hand Painted Four Seasons Art Nouveau
Located in Recanati, IT
Majestic amphora in glazed majolica, handmade and hand painted in central Italy. On the amphora are represented, in great detail, the four seasons personified by graceful women surro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Ceramic, Majolica

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

Tiffany Studios Bud Vase
Located in Bronx, NY
This stylish & artistic Tiffany Studios, New York bud vase is beautifully designed in brilliant iridescent favrile art glass. The vase has a sturdy round base, from which a tall slen...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

Materials

Glass

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

Loetz Art Nouveau Iridescent Art Glass Vase
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Art Nouveau period iridescent art glass vase By Loetz Austria, Early 20th Century Measures: 5"W x 5"D x 7.25"H. Good original vintage condition.
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Art Glass

19th Century Majolica Vase with Floral and Foliage Motifs
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
19th Century Majolica Vase with Floral and Foliage Motifs Description: This is a majolica vase dating from the 19th century, made in glazed ceramic with a rich and earthy brown tone...
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19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Majolica

XL 1940s Azure Blue Art Nouveau Floor Vase by Carl Viggo Larsen, Denmark
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Large bright azure blue Art Nouveau stoneware floor vase by Danish artist Carl Viggo Larsen. Handmade in his Cavila studio in the small town of Næstved in southern Zealand in the 194...
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Early 20th Century Danish Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Ceramic, Clay, Pottery, Stoneware

Picture Frame for a round and a rectangular picture Fabergé style
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped frame for a round and a rectangular photograph in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on a radial guilloché and rich friezes in the Russia...
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1960s Italian Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

Materials

Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

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

Pair of Art Nouveau Kralik Loetz-Type Rigaree Art Glass Vases
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine pair of Loetz type art glass vases. Attributed to the Kralik Glassworks. Similar to the Loetz Nautilus Pattern. Both with applied bands of rigaree to sides. The rigaree ha...
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Early 20th Century Czech Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

Materials

Art Glass, Blown Glass

Art Nouveau Bronze Sculpture "Polo Players" by Fred Voelckerling, 1919
Located in Bochum, NRW
A German Expressionist bronze sculpture "Polospielers" (Polo Players). Signed and marked 'Fred Voelckerling, 1919' on the base. In very good condition, normal wear and patina. Dimensions: 45x28x36.5 cm The aesthetic composition is depicting two polo players on horseback, in full competition. The horses' movement has a special elegance and sobriety, and the finish is of remarkable sensitivity, the anatomical elements are distinguished, without the stylization becoming of a trivial naturalism. The polo players are caught in a moment of maximum tension, struggling to keep both the horses in check and the clubs in play. The whole ensemble exudes the emotion of movement and competition, being a perfect example for the expressionist sculpture. Alfred (Fred) Hans Voelckerling (1872-1945) was a German artist who worked as both a sculptor and a painter. He has created many works of art that have been exhibited in different countries. His works are very impressive and often show people or animals in different situations. Voelckerling's art is well known and admired by many people around the world. After graduating from the Dresden school for arts and crafts where he worked in the studio of Robert Diez...
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1910s German Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Bronze

Kähler, Denmark. Two Art Nouveau ceramic candlesticks decorated with foliage.
Located in København, Copenhagen
PRE-OWNED GOODS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT TARIFFS FOR U.S., UK, AUSTRALIAN & CANADIAN CUSTOMERS. THEREFORE, NO IMPORT TARIFFS WILL BE APPLICABLE TO YOUR PURCHASE. Kähler, Denmark. ...
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1930s Danish Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Ceramic

20th Century Pug Dog Austrian Miniature Figurine Statue 1950s France
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Classic early 1950s metal (bronze) figurine. Shows a beautiful pug dog. Found at an estate sale in Strasbourg, France. A nice addition to any collection. You can use it also as pape...
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1950s French Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Metal

Rare Majolica Pink Daisy Basket Delphin Massier, Circa 1890
Located in Austin, TX
Rare Majolica Pink Daisy basket Delphin Massier Circa 1890.
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1890s French Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Ceramic, Faience

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

Art Nouveau, Liberty & Co., Tudric Hammered Antique Pewter Tazza c1910
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
Splendid Art Nouveau antique pewter tazza for Liberty & Co., Regent Street, London Tall, impressive table centrepiece with hand hammered and stylised decoration Circa 1910 Signed 'Tu...
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1910s English Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Pewter

20th Century German Art Nouveau Solid Silver Candelabra, Eugen Marcus, c.1900
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
20th Century German Art Nouveau silver monumental seven-light candelabra, beautifully modelled, on shaped and beautifully decorated bases, applied with whiplash leaves, the two amazo...
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20th Century German Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Silver

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 Cameo Vase with Wisteria Decor, Émile Gallé, France 1903/04
Located in Vienna, AT
Vase in the form of a baluster: oval stand, wall widening towards the top, forming shoulders and converging into a short, narrow neck. Colorless glass with yellow-orange color powder...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

Materials

Glass

Majolica Swan Jardinière Planter Style of Imperiale Nimy, Belgium 1900s
Located in Verviers, BE
Majolica white swan jardinière Nimy, circa 1900. A real treasure for the ceramics' collector. Small chip to top rim not visible during use see photo. Please don't hesitate to get i...
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Early 1900s Belgian Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Majolica

Early 20th Century Czech Royal Dux Bohemian Carved Porcelain Woman Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a woman's vanity or powder room with this vintage elegant ceramic Bohemian sculpture dish, crafted in the Czech Republic circa 1930. The Art Deco sculpture features a woman ...
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Early 20th Century Czech Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Porcelain

Émile Gallé (1846-1904) French Art Nouveau Glass Vase « Magnolias» circa 1900
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Émile Gallé (1846-1904) French Art Nouveau Caméo Glass Vase «Magnolias » circa 1900 A multilayer deep red and yellow glass vase with acid-etched and wheel-engraved decoration. Desig...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Art Glass

Large Galle Cameo Glass Vase
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A large and impressive original Art Nouveau Emile Gallé cameo glass vase. colourless glass with a degrading amber layer overlaid in brown blue and green, e...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Art Glass

Halcyon Days Fine Enamel British Pillbox National History Museum of Los Angeles
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Stunning little porcelain box by Halcyon Days Enamels. The inside lid is inscribed "National History Museum of Los Angeles County 1913-1988." The bottom o...
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20th Century English Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Porcelain

Swedish Designer, Candlesticks, Pewter, Sweden, 1930s
Located in High Point, NC
A pair of pewter candlesticks designed and produced in Sweden, 1930s. Holds 0.65” diameter candles
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1930s Swedish Vintage Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Pewter

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

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

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

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

Young woman with jug, Carrara marble, signed Bonnal, early 20th century
Located in NICE, FR
Charming sculpture of a young woman carrying a jug, signed by Bonnal on the back and inspired by “Rebecca at the Well” by 19th-century Italian School artist Guglielmo Pugi. The sculpture in fine white Carrara marble, created between the end of the 19ᵉ century and the beginning of the 20ᵉ century, depicts a pensive, lascivious young woman dressed in the fashion of the turn of the century: she wears a turban from which escapes curls of hair and a bracelet characteristic of the period; the cut of her dress is also very elaborate for a simple peasant woman. The finely embroidered motifs on the dress and turban are further evidence of the sculptor's mastery. A delicate, feminine piece that will look great in a hallway or on a dressing table, and will make a lovely gift for an aesthete woman. Guglielmo Pugi lived in Florence, where he ran a sculpture workshop with his two sons. Their workshop, “Guglielmo Pugi e Figli”, was mainly dedicated to exports, particularly to the United States. Guglielmo Pugi's work, emblematic of the Art Nouveau style, is characterized by direct carving in alabaster and Carrara marble (often white or veined). Some of his sculptures are now housed in Volterra's Historical Alabaster Museum. Many of his works were shown at major international exhibitions, such as the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo and the 1904 Exposition...
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Early 1900s Antique Art Nouveau Decorative Objects

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Marble

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