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Moorish Head, Handmade Sicily, Vase, Size L, Colorful, Metallized Finishing E23
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The Collection
This collection offers ideas for contemporary décor through sophisticated revelations of art bound to the tradition of ceramics of Caltagirone, objets d’art that comb...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
$1,221 Sale Price / item
25% Off
Antique Japanese Signed Imari Porcelain Plum Shaped Bowl by Hichozan Fukagawa
By Hichozan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique signed Japanese Imari porcelain bowl.
In the form of a shaped bowl with a plum-like shape.
Decorated throughout with exquisitely detailed painted or enameled dec...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Austrian Cold Painted Bronze Fox Hunting Group with Green Onyx Base
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Beautiful desk accessory for the fox hunter. Austrian/Vienna cold painted bronze fox hunter on his horse with his three hounds. Onyx base with letter opener or pen well/tray in excel...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Onyx, Bronze
Vintage French Clock Dial Face, Lepaute Paris, Industrial Fully Working
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A stunning vintage French industrial clock by the famed company of Henri Lepaute. Found abandoned in a French industrial building by our buyer,...
Category
Early 20th Century French Industrial Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
Meissen Art Nouveau Figure, Boy With Drinking Dog, by Konrad Hentschel, ca 1905
Located in Vienna, AT
Art Nouveau Meissen porcelain figure from the time the model was created:
Boy with brunette hair, dressed in typical children's clothing from around 1900 - dress with white apron, in...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Berlin KPM Guild Royal Blue Porcelain Vase
Located in Guaynabo, PR
Berlin KPM pedestal vaulted vase. It is hand painted on the front with a scene of Kronprinzepalais building redesigned by Johann Heinrich Strack for Prince Frederick William of Pruss...
Category
19th Century German Rococo Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
$14,400 Sale Price
52% Off
Midcentury Kienzle Wall Clockc
Located in Vienna, AT
Brass construction with antique pink painted clock face from the early 1950s.
Original mechanical movement but it can be changed to AAA-battery movement on request.
Delivery time a...
Category
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
A Pair of 19th C. Paris Porcelain Gilt and Portrait Painted Vases
By Old Paris
Located in New York, NY
A Pair of 19th C. Paris Porcelain Gilt and Portrait Painted Vases. Each vase features a neoclassical amphora form, richly decorated with gilt accents and hand-painted portrait panel...
Category
1840s French Empire Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
One of Two Chinese Porcelain Glazed Figural Ginger Jars with Lids, 19th Century
Located in Antwerp, BE
Two Chinese blue and white porcelain glazed decorative figural and floral ginger jars with the original removable lids, 19th century.
Measure: Diameter 28 cm.
Height 28 cm.
Two of t...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$720 Sale Price / item
50% Off
Pill Box oval Silver Sterling Enameled and handcarved Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Domed oval pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè, top and bottom, with fine hand-engravings. Viennese Art Nouveau style second h...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Louis XVI Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
"Cornovaso" Modern Ceramic Industrial Vase by Alessio Tasca, 1970s
Located in Bagnolo Mella, Brescia
A stunning creation by renowned Italian artist Alessio Tasca from the expressive era of the 1970s. This exceptional piece seamlessly blends form and function, showcasing Tasca's mast...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Art Nouveau Table Lamp 'Vignes Et Escargots', Daum Nancy, France, Circa 1905
By Daum
Located in Vienna, AT
A museum piece of French Art Nouveau glass art:
Lamp with baluster-shaped foot on a stepped, flat, round stand raised in the centre, hemispherical shade, slightly heat-stretched and pressed upwards on four sides, made of multi-layered glass with coloured powder fusions, predominantly in yellow-orange, red, brown, green and blue-violet tones, with highly etched vine leaves and grapevine decoration, two fully sculpted snails on the foot as a special accent, Cameo signature ‘DAUM NANCY’ with Lorraine cross on the foot in the lower area, and on the shade, which rests on a patinated metal mount, which also carries the threads for the light sources, one at the top and one inside the foot.
Technique: Handmade cameo glass
Glass overlaid with several layers, with high-cut worked out motifs. Since the middle of the 19th century, the design has also been done by etching. Cameo glass vessels were already being made in antiquity; cameo glass vessels were already being made in ancient times, and at the end of the 19th century this glass art was further developed,
especially in Nancy.
Manufactory: Daum Frères / Nancy, Lorraine, France
Dating: Circa 1905
Dimensions:
Height: 53,5 cm / 21.06 in
Diameter: 32,0 cm / 12.59 in
Bibliography:
Carolus Hartmann, Glasmarken-Lexikon / Encyclopedia of Glass Marks, Stuttgart / Germany 1997, Signature number 2984 on page 148, and page 561: Daum Frères & Cie, Verreries de Nancy
Condition: Very good
The electrification is functional, but should be renewed for safety reasons.
About the design:
The development of Art Nouveau glass art coincides with a revolution in lighting, the significance of which we can no longer fully appreciate today in the 21st century. Around 1880-1890, oil lamps and paraffin lamps were still almost unrivalled in every household. It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that the ‘electricity fairy’ emerged as a remarkable advance and gradually found its way into the daily lives of all social classes. The glassmakers at the Ecole de Nancy were true pioneers and eagerly seized the opportunity to use electricity to illuminate the colours
applied to the glass. Colour was one of the main concerns of the master glassmakers at the Ecole de Nancy.
Emile and Antonin Daum returned to the colours that had made the stained glass of the Middle Ages so splendid and extended the palette of colours in the glass mass as they needed it for the floral motifs and exact representations of nature. But the modulation of the colours, their arrangement in juxtaposed patches, the technique that the Impressionist painters practised on their canvases at the same time, was difficult to achieve due
to the nature of the glass melted in a large mass.
To achieve this richness of expression, around 1900 Daum developed ‘the process of applying glass powder and enamel to the outside of the vases to create coloured backgrounds or decorative spots’, according to the report of the jury of the 1900 World Exhibition.
The field of naturalistic, contrasting and shimmering colours was one in which Antonin Daum excelled. This new technical process made it possible to create the symphonies of colour that we find on the ‘Vignes et escargots’ lamp...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Glass
Japonisme Art Nouveau Heron Floor Lamp, France, circa 1900
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
An exceptional piece!
Superb sculpture floor lamp in patinated and painted bronze and brass, depicting a Japanese crane (tsuru) / heron / wading bird picking red berries in the middle of lush nature (flowers, water lily leaves).
5 lights with tulip shades in glass / opaline colors.
Art Nouveau / Japonisme style, France, around 1900.
Inspired by the productions of Meiji Japan, which was opening up to the rest of the world, Western artists, particularly the French, were inspired by them. The movement called "Japonisme" was born and from it flowed Art...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass, Bronze
$16,219 Sale Price
25% Off
Mid-Century Ubelacker Fat Lava Vase
By Ü Keramik
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Beautiful fat lava vase by Ubelacker Keramik with a sort of geometric pattern.
Category
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Red and Gilt Tole Chinoiserie Samovar
Located in New York, NY
Red and gold chinoiserie samovar. Antique English painted metal chinoiserie tea or coffee urn with gilt and silver gilt painted oriental figures in landscapes on three cabriole legs ...
Category
Late 18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Vienna Bronze Cold Painted Pineapple Inkwell
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Vienna bronze cold painted pineapple inkwell with porcelain insert.
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
Monster Bouquet Vase
Located in London, GB
This hand-painted ceramic vase features illustrations of our classic monsters. The vase is finished with a glossy glaze perfect for hand-picked flowers from the garden.
Dimensions: ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Louis XVI White Photo Frame Sterling Silver Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted miniature of a garland of flowers with oval border interna...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Famille Rose Celadon Chinoiserie POrcelain Covered Urns / Jars
Located in Tarry Town, NY
These exquisite late 19th century Chinese porcelain covered urns, crafted in the Famille Rose and Celadon Chinoiserie style, are a stunning testame...
Category
Late 19th Century Asian Chinoiserie Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Carl Thieme Potschappel German Porcelain Dresden Style Covered Urn
By Carl Thieme
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine Dresden style covered urn.
By Carl Thieme / Potschappel porcelain factory.
Of Campagna urn form with scrolling twin handles and a pierced lid or cover with stylized artichoke finial.
Decorated throughout with typical Deutsche Blumen floral sprays, bands of green flower head and s-scroll devices, and rich gilding throughout.
Fully marked to the base.
Simply a wonderful antique porcelain urn!
Date:
Late 19th or Early 20th Century
Overall Condition:
It is in overall good, as-pictured, used estate condition.
Condition Details:
The base has apparently been re-secured at one point with overpaint to the bolt. (One can twist the base to rest firmly in place, but it can rotate the other direction to loosen some.) Otherwise, there are some fine & light surface scratches and other signs of expected light wear consistent with age.
Maker:
Carl Thieme / Potschappel
Pattern Name:
Dresden Potpourri...
Category
20th Century German Rococo Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Antique English Hand Painted Porcelain Compotes
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A pair of antique English hand painted and raised gilt porcelain compotes. Each one is painted a different Irish seaside landscape. The remarkable hand painted plates with raised gil...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$1,313 Sale Price / set
24% Off
Clock Cream Enamel on Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small table clock in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche, with columns in neo-classical Hellenic style. Swiss mechanical movement from Mai...
Category
1970s Italian Neoclassical Revival Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Japanese Meiji Period Arita Omoikane Deity of Wisdom 思兼 Vase, Fukagawa Studio
By Fukagawa
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Japanese Meiji Period Arita Omoikane Deity of Wisdom 思兼 Vase, Fukagawa Studio
Japan, circa 1900s
Inscribed or signed on the side
An extraordinary Japanese Meiji Period Arita Omoik...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$1,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Y. Gianni, Italian the Gulf of Naples, 19th Century
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Y. Gianni (Italian) The Gulf of Naples, 19th Century. A beautiful signed "Y. Gianni" gouche on paper, framed and matted with description & name on matti...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Paper
Chinese Vintage Blue and White Porcelain Vase with Landscapes and Architectures
Located in Yonkers, NY
A vintage Chinese porcelain vase from the mid 20th century, with hand-painted blue and white body. Created in China during the midcentur...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Antique English Pottery Horse with Sponged Decoration Circa 1800
Located in Katonah, NY
This pottery figure of a horse is sponge decorated in shades of pink and brown.
It was made at St. Anthony’s Pottery, located in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, between 1800 and 1810.
...
Category
Early 19th Century English Folk Art Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery
Pair of Halcyon Days Enamel Boxes – Friendship & Wisdom Quotes – Hand-Painted
By Halcyon Days
Located in Morristown, NJ
Pair of Halcyon Days Enamel Boxes – Friendship & Wisdom Quotes – Hand-Painted Collectible
This exquisite pair of Halcyon Days enamel boxes featur...
Category
Late 20th Century English Victorian Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal, Enamel
18th Century Italian Double-Mounted Cross on Hematite with Pyrite Inclusions
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian gilded double-mounted cross on hematite with pyrite inclusions and adorned with pyrite rosettes. A matching smaller cross is mounted onto the bigger cross...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Pyrite
$1,087 Sale Price
25% Off
Italian Painted and Parcel Gilt Tôle Bed Corona with Foliage Motif and Finial
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian bed corona from the 19th century, with painted and gilt décor and nicely weathered patina. Created in Italy during the 19th century, this bed corona features a circular bo...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Tôle
Antique Minton Staffordshire Porcelain Candelabra Centerpiece Cherub 19th Ct
By Minton
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning Example of a single English Minton Porcelain Two Branch Candelabra, modelled as a Cherub holding on each hand an out swept candle holder, seated on an oval base above an elaborate footed stand. Circa third quarter of the Nineteenth Century, possibly earlier
Exquisitely decorated in colours of turquoise on white glazed ground with lavish gold highlights.
Condition: Good condition for such an early piece with no losses, no discoloring anywhere. Typically unmarked as pieces of this early period.
Height: (entire as image one, an impressive) 11.5" (29cm). Width: (at oval base) 5.5” (13.5cm). Depth: (at base) 4.25” (10.25cm).
Location: Dublin City, Ireland.
Affordable fixed price Worldwide Store to door shipping.
Provenance: From the Collection of Kenneth Neame, Mount Street, Mayfair, offered by Sothebys London.
Mintons was a major English company in Staffordshire Pottery, "Europe's leading ceramic factory during the Victorian era" an independent business from 1793 to 1968. It was a leader in ceramic design, working in a number of different ceramic bodies, decorative techniques, and "a glorious pot-pourri of styles - Rococo shapes with Oriental motifs, Classical shapes with Medieval designs and Art Nouveau borders were among the many wonderful concoctions". As well as pottery vessels and sculptures, the firm was a leading manufacturer of tiles and other architectural ceramics, producing work for both the Houses of Parliment...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain, Pottery
Unusual Pair of Large Chinese Export Canton Famille Rose 1000 Butterfly Vases
Located in New York, NY
An unusual pair of large Chinese export canton famille rose thousand butterfly porcelain vases. The vase has a very unusual shape and was most pro...
Category
1840s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
Late 18th century George III leather hand painted fire bucket
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Late 18th century george iii leather hand painted fire bucket circa 1780.
Good quality leather fire bucket. Armorial decorated, inscribed honi soit-oui mal y pense, which means sha...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Leather, Paint
Large French Art Deco Faience Vases by Gustave Asch, circa 1920
By Gustave Asch
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This exceptional pair of large French Art Deco vases is attributed to Gustave Asch for the renowned Sainte Radegonde faience workshop, circa 1920. Each vase is finished in a rich, hi...
Category
Early 20th Century French Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Meissen Snake Handle Vase With Flower Painting And Gilding, by Leuteritz, 20th
Located in Vienna, AT
Very large double snake handle vase in baluster form on a mounted funnel-shaped stand, handles in the form of coiled snake pairs raised on the side, white and cobalt blue base, fine ...
Category
1940s German Baroque Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Evening Bag Sterling Silver Shape of an Envelope Black Fired Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Evening bag in the shape of an envelope in 925/1000 sterling silver with black fired enamel. Measure cm. 8.2 x 4.7 x 13.5 - interior with beveled mirror and velvet lining. With trian...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
$8,793 Sale Price
20% Off
1 of 2 Antique 1920s Boch Fréres Keramis Art Nouveau Delft Faience Vase, Belgium
Located in Copenhagen, DK
One of two colorful 100 year old Belgian Art Nouveau delft faience knobble vase by Charles Catteau's Boch Fréres Keramis at La Louviére, Belgium in the 1920s. Hand painted flowers, l...
Category
Early 20th Century Belgian Art Nouveau Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Earthenware, Faience, Delft
19th Century Italian Majolica Fountain Body/Vase
Located in Dallas, TX
This colorful antique Italian Majolica vase dates to the 1800s. This type of pottery was first produced during the Italian Renaissance, and it often depicted historical and mythologi...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
A Pair of Dutch Delft Covered Vases with Foo Dog Finials
Located in New York, NY
A pair of tin-glazed polychrome covered vases with foo dog finials, each topped with whimsical blue and white animal finials. The hand painted decoration wraps around in bright cobal...
Category
1920s French Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Limoges Castel 22K Gold Decorated Cobalt Porcelain Two Handled Vases
Located in Germantown, MD
An exceptional Pair of Limoges Castel 22K Gold Decorated Blue Cobalt Porcelain Two Handled Vases in good antique condition. Measures 8" in width and stand 10' tall.
Category
Mid-20th Century Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$2,240 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Iside I19, Woman's Moorish Head, Handmade in Sicily, 2021, Golden, Size S
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The Collection
This collection offers ideas for contemporary décor through sophisticated revelations of art bound to the tradition of ceramics of Caltagirone, objets d’art that comb...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
$446 Sale Price / item
25% Off
Unique Gothic Revival Gilt Bronze Table or Desk Clock w Rare Porcelain Plaques
By W.H. Tooke
Located in Lisse, NL
Wonderful clock for the collectors of truly stylish Gothic antiques, by W.H.Tooke, Paris.
Finding this unique (Germany made) Gothic table clock again felt like a blessing. The overall design is remarkable, but the combination of the craftsmanship of the bronze components and the hand crafted and hand painted Gothic porcelain plaques is what takes this clock to the next level. Whenever you find a piece that is this good then you can rest assure that there is a maker's mark. This late 1800s work of beauty was made and marked by the prolific Parisian clock...
Category
Late 19th Century German Gothic Revival Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Ostrich Ceramic Centerpiece, Gold details Completely Handmade Without Mold, 2024
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The piece is a unique representation of a Bird in a modern way. The animal is gently painted with a may different colors. All the pieces from Mosche Bianche are unique since they are...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
$4,036 Sale Price / item
20% Off
Two Fish Sculptures in Cobalt Blue Ceramic and White Porcelain
Located in Barcelona, ES
Set of Two Mid-Century Modern ceramic and porcelain fish Figures in cobalt blue and white. Spain, 1950s-1960s.
Unmatching glazed fish sculptures...
Category
20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain, Ceramic
Vintage Swedish, decorated, bent wooden box. Handpainted 'Kurbits' style.
Located in Skarpnäck, SE
A beautiful vintage bent wooden box known as a "Svepask" from Sweden. This item can be dated to 1947 and derives from Gagnef in the Dalarna region. It has been decorated with a tradi...
Category
1940s Swedish Folk Art Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Bentwood
Art Deco Stoneware Vase in Brown and Gold by Gunnar Nylund. ALP, Sweden, 1930s
Located in Malmö, SE
A stoneware art deco vase with beautiful brown glaze. Foot and mouth detailed in gold.
Designed by Gunnar Nylund for ALP (Lidköpings Porslinsfabrik), Sweden, 1930s.
Great condition,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Art Deco Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Large Chain Link Menorah Lamp with Star-Shaped Feet, France, circa 1950s
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Large Menorah style candelabra made of metal chain link, painted gold, with seven branches. Raised on a tripod base ending in star-shaped feet.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
Gio Ponti for Ginori Athletic Dish
By Gio Ponti
Located in New York, NY
Gio Ponti for Ginori athletic dish. Vintage Richard Ginori shaped nut dish/ small saucer from the athletic series designed by Gio Ponti featuring ...
Category
1930s Italian Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Naive Italian Glazed Stoneware Vase in the Style of Guido Gambone
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Rectangular handprinted stoneware vase with 4 motifs: 2 with fishes and two with flowers. It has no markings but we suspect it was made by Italian ceramist Guido Gambone during the 1...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
$428 Sale Price
25% Off
Mid Century Modern Porcelain Statue of Maria with Baby Jesus Made by Goebel
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Beautiful porcelain statue of Mary with baby Jesus on her arm. The statue is hand painted in beautiful colors. The statue is marked on the bottom with t...
Category
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Small Dish Hand Painted Enamel and Ormolu Bronze
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
An elegant small footed dish.
Made of gilded bronze with an enameled, hand painted dish in the centre.
The dish is in good condition.
Dimensions: 17 x 9 cm and 9 cm tall.
Made in Fra...
Category
1890s French Napoleon III Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Lane Gordon Thorlaksson Canadian Studio Pottery Bowl with Stand
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning Canadian studio pottery miniature bowl decorated in yellow glazes with an associated pottery stand by Lane Gordon Thorlaksson (Canadian, 1937-2009) dated 1976.
Lane Gordon Thorlaksson was born in 1937 in Winnipeg, Manitoba and moved to Vancouver as a child. In his twenties, he represented Canada in the 1959 Chicago Pan-American Games, running alongside Henry 'Harry' Winston Jerome in both the 100 yard and 220-yard dash. Following this, he attended San Jose University of California and in 1966 received a BFA in Ceramics.
Working with clay was Thorlaksson’s passion. He was fascinated with Asian ceramics, in particular the Song dynasty Chinese pot forms and glazes. In 1985, the Mayor of Vancouver, Mike Harcourt, visited China on a goodwill mission for the twinning of Vancouver with Guangzhou China. As gifts, he took with him several of Thorlaksson’s ceramics and presented them to Cao Yun-ping, Secretary-General of the People's Municipal Government of Guangzhou. The pieces were well received and local Chinese potters were interested to learn about his glazing techniques.
In 1987, Thorlaksson was invited to visit China’s Guangzhou University to exhibit more of his work. He was aided in this exchange by Joanne Mah, the Director of Intercultural Training and Educational Consultants (ITEC), who had worked with the Harcourt exchange. In 1988, she and her husband sponsored a pre-gallery showing of Thorlaksson’s ceramics at the ITEC’s Hong Kong office, prior to an exhibition at Alvin Gallery in Hong Kong. Thorlaksson was celebrated and introduced to academics and the media, including the head of ceramics at the Guangzhou Institute of Fine Arts. Local Chinese potters were eager to learn about his firing techniques, which used multiple firings to create special glaze characteristics. They were also intrigued to understand how he designed his own stands as an integrated part of his presentation. Unlike Asian potters who used wooden stands, Thorlaksson produced his stands in clay, matching each stand in aesthetic and tone to its pot. This two-part process elevated his pieces to sculpture. He believed that ceramics should be viewed as fine art and not craft. He was inspired by the female form and was quoted as saying 'Most potters make pots; I make parts of people'.
The bowl is of wide squat rounded form with a fold over rim and is decorated in pale yellow glazes over a brown ground and stands on a narrow round unglazed foot. The design is probably based and inspired by a Chinese brush washer...
Category
1970s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery
Late Georgian Derby Desert Dish Heart Shaped Porcelain Gilded Ptn, Circa 1825
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a beautiful porcelain heart shaped Desert dish, hand painted and gilded in a sprig pattern, made by the Derby factory, in the late Georgian period, circa 1825.
This dish has been hand decorated in a French influenced "Chantilly" pattern consisting of scattered sprigs painted in green and gold, with further rich hand gilding around the rim.
The dish has the printed Derby Crown mark, in red together with the "D" below.
A similar shaped Derby heart shaped dish...
Category
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Midcentury Gray Shepherd Ceramic Dog Sculpture, Europe, 1960s
Located in 05-080 Hornowek, PL
Painted ceramic, very good original vintage condition. No damages or cracks. Beautiful and unique decorative sculpture. Gray Shepherd Dog Sculpture was produced in England. Only one ...
Category
20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
$64 Sale Price
40% Off
MCM Dodo Designs Kinetic "Flirt" Sculpture with Original Box, Made in England
Located in Miami, FL
MCM Dodo Designs Kinetic "Flirt" Sculpture with Original Box, Made in England
Offered for sale is a mid-century modern Dodo Designs kinetic "Flirt" sculpture with original box. Thi...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Gilt Chinoiserie Cachepot
Located in New York, NY
Gilt Chinoiserie cachepot. Richly gilt painted porcelain footed planter with scrolled rocaille handles centering front and back charcoal painted orien...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Rustic Ox Cart Wooden Wheel from Thailand, Mounted on Black Painted Base
Located in Yonkers, NY
A rustic Thai 19th century ox cart wooden wheel mounted on a custom made black wooden Stand. Born in Thailand during the 19th century, this handmade wheel is pierced in its raised center with a hole reserved for the axle tree. The wheel showcases a nicely weathered patina witnessing its long use since the 19th century. This item is mounted on a custom made black painted stepped base. With its rustic appearance and large proportions, this 19th century Thai mounted wooden ox cart wheel...
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19th Century Thai Rustic Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Pink Flamingo Ceramic Sculpture Centerpiece, Handmade Without Mold, new 2023
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The piece is a unique representation of a Pink Flamingo in a modern way. The animal is gently painted with a pink different shades. The flamingo lives in Italy especially in Sicily. ...
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2010s Italian Modern Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
$3,784 Sale Price / item
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Blue and White Dutch Delft Charger Netherlands Circa 1780 with Mark of "The Axe"
By The Axe
Located in Katonah, NY
Made in the factory of "The Axe" circa 1780, this blue and white Delft charger shows a lovely garden scene hand-painted in cobalt blue.
In the center, we see a pine tree, a garden fe...
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Late 18th Century Dutch Chinoiserie Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Delft
Glitch #05. From the Glitch series
By Yongwon Noh
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Glitch #05, 2023 by Yongwon Noh
From the Glitch series
Ceramic
Size: 4.3 in. H x 5.1 in. W x 5.1 in. D
Weight: 2kg Unpacked
Unique Piece
Signature written on the bottom of the vase
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2010s North Korean Arts and Crafts Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Museum worthy 3-piece rare uranium glass hand-painted, Biedermeier 1840s Bohemia
Located in Wien, AT
This museum-worthy object is a uranium glass set consisting of a plate, a bowl, and a lid. Made in Bohemia around 1840 during the Biedermeier period.
This glass object is an outstan...
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1840s Czech Biedermeier Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Uranium Glass
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