German Vases and Vessels

Dating to the 1930's this very attractive and rare Art Deco trinket box is made by a German company. Rare and in excellent condition, I couldn't f...

Mid-Century West German mallet-form ceramic vase with a textured fat lava style exterior, a red and purple geometric design band around the body and a multi-tonal blue glazed ground....

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...

This exceptional late 19th century porcelain cabinet vase was hand painted at the Dresden based studio of Georg Heufel & Co. The artist signed vase has a slightly flared cylindr...

Beautiful interior vase made of elite high quality porcelain by Kaiser, Eleonore Series. The vase is painted by designer -K. Nossek. His design solutions always attract attention an...

We are delighted to offer you an extraordinary piece of Meissen Art Nouveau porcelain art: This unique object is the first known example of an Art Nouveau vase by Theodor Grust to ap...

Karim Rashid for Leonardo Germany Limited Edition New Move Silver Glass Vase, ca 1999. Measures 8” high, base 3-1/2” wide, and mouth 2-1/4” wide. There is a small scratch of silver finish/coating on glass (we've posted an image of the interior and exterior at the area of the scratch). There is also a faint area of small blemishes at the base See images for more detail. If there’s one thing karim rashid hates, it’s trophies. The 40-year-old designer has more than 40 of them, from big international ones like the 1999 George Nelson Award (given for breakthrough furniture design), to quaint little Canadian ones like Designer of the Year 2001. “It came with a little pin,” says Rashid, “and a … a … very nice …” He tries to describe the shape of the award with his hands but gives up. “It’s time that whole trophy thing changes. It’s kitsch. They’re functionless things.” Rashid was asked to design one for the DaimlerChrysler Design Awards (he’s a past recipient). “I was going to make it electro-luminescent. When the lights go out, it has a sensor so it turns on,” he says. But the trophy-as-night-light, a reminder of one’s worth in the darkest hours, didn’t impress Chrysler’s people. He never heard back. They may well be gnawing their knuckles over that decision right now because Rashid’s conquest of the realm of product design is all but complete. A lush and suitably worshipful retrospective of his work, Karim Rashid: I Want to Change the World (Thames & Hudson; 249 pages), hits Australasian bookstores this month. There was a crowd around anything with his stamp on it-including stools, chess sets and storage units-at the recent International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City. More than 2 million North Americans are throwing their rubbish into a receptacle he designed, while 750,000 or so park their rears on one of his cheapo plastic chairs. It’s not just in North America. He has been dubbed Der Poet des Plastiks by a retailer in Germany and the prolifico progettista Americano by Interni magazine in Italy. Trophies he may despise, but accolades Rashid can handle. The problem with being the Most Famous Industrial Designer in All the Americas is that you’re still less famous than someone who got kicked off Survivor the first week. Most people cannot name the designer of one nonclothing item in their homes. Rashid, who was born in Egypt, raised in Canada and is living in New York City, is more than happy to bring an end to this anonymity. Not just because he wants to be famous, although there seems to be that, but because he believes design should be a bigger part of the social discourse. “I have been almost alone in this country, trying to make design become a public subject,” he says. His chief method of persuasion is to make the banal better so that people notice design more. He likes creating expensive furniture and perfume bottles just fine, but what really gets his juices going is the everyday: manhole covers, a cremation urn, disposable cigarette lighters, garbage bins, salt and pepper shakers, plastic pens. “I want American Standard to come to me to do the toilets for Home Depot,” he says. In many ways Rashid is more like an itinerant industrial evangelist than a designer. He traveled 200 days last year. He claims to have been to every major mall in America, where he signs his products in high-end design stores and trolls about observing humans interacting with the objects around them. He has taught at design schools for more than a decade, and his work has been in 11 art shows in the past eight months. But mostly he has proselytized the corporate barbarians. And like any good missionary, he has learned to speak the language of his converts. One of the first things he does when he gets new clients is tour their factories to understand their manufacturing capacity. He also visits the retail outlets to see how the product might be displayed. And he really knows how to sell, especially himself. “I work with a guy in L.A.,” says Rashid, declining to name him. “He made a lot of really bad furniture. His business was hand-to-mouth. I proposed seven or eight projects. The pieces I’ve done for him have already become iconic.” The subtitle of his monograph, I Want to Change the World, is not ironic, just characteristically immodest. “Most industrial-design studios try to interpret a client’s needs and come up with a style,” says Paul Rowan, co-founder of housewares manufacturer Umbra. “Karim has his own personal vision.” It helps that Rashid’s vision incorporates things that Rowan needs, like a design that will stack and ship easily and that creates little waste in the making. Rashid’s father was a set designer for Canadian TV who rearranged the family furniture every Sunday. So perhaps it was ordained that Karim would grow up to become one of the pioneers in non-cheesy plastic, making objects that have energy and personality but aren’t wacky. He, like many of his generation, has championed the could-only-be-designed-with-computers blob. But his is not just a blob for its own sake. His Oh Chair...

Impressions made from tree bark were first used to make moulds in the early 1970s, as factories investigated new ways to bring surface texture to glass objects. Some models are color...

Classic early 1950s German Minimalist wall mount vase. Nice addition to your room. These small decoration items get found harder and harder, so take ...

Art Deco bronze WMF Ikora vase by Paul Haustein, 1920s An Art Deco bronze patinated vase by Paul Haustein for WMF Ikora, Germany, late 1920s When light...

A striking mid-century modern 1950s fat lava vase by the renowned West German pottery maker Jasba Keramik. The company was founded in 1926 by Jakob Schwaderlapp in Ransbach-Baumbach ...

Large Antique Dresden Porcelain Floral Urn. With hand painted classical scenes throughout exterior. Woman and man figures dressed with a garland of flowers on the lid. Marked on bottom, Carl Thieme...

Erwin Eisch (born 1929) is a renowned German glass artist, considered one of the pioneers of contemporary glass art. He is known for his innovative approaches to glassmaking, which t...

Set of three ceramic vases designed by Rudi Sthal, Germany 1970. The lower parts show a rough finish while the top parts are glazed in different tones of deep blue, burnt yellow and ...

Article: Set of two fat lava art vases Producer: Jopeko Ceramics, Germany Decade: 1970s These original vintage vases was produced in the 1970s in German...

West Germany Ceramic vase, 1970s. Elegant and stylised ceramic vase shaped as a cat, in black glaze with hand-painted yellow and white lines typical of 1970s design. A decorative and...

Meissen, Germany. Porcelain vase in Sevres Bleu. Amphora shape Polychrome flower motifs. Gold decoration. Vase with handles. Porcelain. Hand-painted. Approximately from the 1920s/30s...

Article: Pottery ceramic vase Producer: Dümmler and Breiden, Germany Decade: 1970s Original vintage 1970s pottery ceramic vase made in Germany. High qu...

Article: Fat lava art vase, heavy Brutalist glaze Producer: Scheurich, Germany Decade: 1970s This original vintage vase was produced in the 1970s in Germany. It is made o...

Article: Fat lava art vase extra large version Model: 408-40 Producer: Scheurich, Germany Decade: 1970s Description: This original vintage vase was ...

Article: Ceramic pottery vases set of 2. Origin: Germany Designer: Heinz Siery Producer: Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany ...

Article: Set of two fat lava art vases Producer: Scheurich, Germany Decade: 1970s These original vintage vases was produced in the 1970s in Germany. It is made of ceramic p...

West German Mid-Century flared form ceramic vase with a green and black marbled glaze and felt bottom. (label on side, OTTO KERAMIK)

Glass jar blown iridescent WMF Myra series. ORIGIN Germany PERIOD Years 20/30 MARK WMF MODEL Myra Series MATERIALS Iridescent blown glass DIMENSIONS Height: 13.5cm Ø 7.5 cm CO...

Article: Fat lava art vase super rare zig zag Producer: Scheurich, Germany Decade: 1970s This original vintage vase was produced in the 1970s in Germ...

Mid-Century, West Germany, studio vase but renowned ceramist Rudi Stahl. Featuring a wonderful organic multi stemmed mushroom form above a large bulbous base. Textured clear finished...

Schiller Majolica vase which features a peacock seated on a pedestal. Coloration: Blue, green, yellow, are predominant. The piece bears maker's marks for ...

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

Rare large paper bag vase designed by Tapio Wirkkala and manufactured by Rosenthal, Germany 1977. This vase is made of porcelain (stoneware) and looks like a paper bag. The vase is m...

A WMF "Ikora” Art Deco mixed metal vase from Germany circa 1930. This Art Deco vase is Stamped : WMF Ikora Germany. WMF (formerly known as Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik) is a...

Monumental Mid-Century West German Ceramic Floor Vase attributed to Scheurich Keramik, circa 1965 This striking and tall ceramic floor vase was crafted circa 1965. A quintessential ...

Vintage Chinoiserie Hand-Painted Porcelain Bavaria Vase — finely decorated porcelain with classic chinoiserie motifs, perfect for refined interiors. We sell items as acquired, wi...

An 18th Century German, or possibly Bohemian, Clear Glass Bottle. Flattened octagonal shape. Hand decorated with blue, orange and green flowers. 15.5cm / 6" High

Article: Fat lava art vase, heavy Brutalist glaze Producer: Scheurich, Germany Decade: 1970s This original vintage vase was produced in the 1970s in Germany. It is made o...

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

Funky Fat Lava in a lava red: mid-century ceramic vase from the ''volcano'' series. Executed by Kurt Tschörner, around 1960 for Ruscha, Western Germany. Lightly bubbly Fat Lava glaz...

Mid-Century Modern West German Pottery WGP Fat Lava Vase from Dümler & Breiden, 1960s

West German Mid-Century ceramic vase with a hand painted black floral pattern against a bright red glazed ground. (mark on bottom, BAY W. GERMANY 66-40)

Antique Meissen flowerpot in porcelain. 19th c. Motif of faun. Face in relief. Hand-painted bucolic scenes in Neo-Roccoco style. Gold decoration. Rare flowerpot. In excellent conditi...

West German Mid-Century ceramic vase with a blue band around the neck, a green vase with white spirals around the body, and thin black horizontal lines throughout against a beige gla...

A ceramic vase with the “Magic Flute” motif for the Rosenthal Studio Line designed by Bjorn Wiindblad from Germany circa 1990. The vase features a matte white porcelain with signatur...

Vintage Midcentury Modern Art Studio Pottery Jug Vase set by Scheurich Europ Linie, West Germany 1960's. Model 407-35. Dark to light green glazed pot. In very good condition. Each va...

Mid-Century, West Germany, studio vase but renowned ceramist Rudi Stahl. Finished in textured light earthy tones with a splash of oxide. Hand signed bye the artist to the underside a...

Article: Ceramic vase Producer: Bertoncello Ceramics, Schiavon, Italy Decade: 1970s This original vintage Studio Pottery vase was produced in the 1970s by B...

Fantastic large Sculptural red with black decorations vase / urn by Scheurich Keramik of West Germany c1955. Tall 21 inches x 12 at its widest point. In excellent vintage condition w...

Article: Fat lava art vase super rare brown "LINES" DECOR. Producer: Scheurich, Germany Decade: 1970s This original vintage vase was produced in the 1970s in Germany by ...

Vintage Kaiser vase made of high quality, high temperature, durable porcelain that is hand painted and glazed. It can be used as a storage jar, a vase for flowers or to display flow...

Mid-Century Modern German Studio Pottery Vase by Elke & Elmar Kubicek, 1960s

Mid-Century Brutalist Bubble Glass Model F231 Vase by Emil Funke for Gral, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1960 to 1969 official proof of authenticity such as vintage catalogs, des...

Vintage brass plant pot is an original object realized in the 1950s. Realized by Eugen Zint. Made in Germany. The label of Eugen Zint is ...

Excellent piece of Meissen porcelain of the 19th century: Two cupid boys wrapped in cloths, one seated on the ground and playing with a dog, the other leaning against a tree trunk pr...

Article: Set of four fat lava art vases Producer: Scheurich, Germany Decade: 1970s These original vintage vases was produced in the 1970s in Germany. It is ...

Handblown crystal vase in green glass with hand-edged hunting scene in the style of black forest. The decor is an antique decor with deers, trees and bambis all around. Completely ha...

Huge floor vase Classic: 1970s Carstens 'Fat Lava Relief' Floor Vase (WGP), orange Manufacturer: Carstens Tönnieshof Design period: 1968–1978 Production period: 1968–1978 Country ...

German Mid-Century urn-form ceramic vase with a white and black crackle glaze. (possibly JASBA)

**Rare Extra Large Mid-Century Modern Urn Vase by Bodo Mans for BAY Keramik, 1960s/1970s** This exceptional extra-large urn vase, designed by Bodo Mans for BAY Keramik in West Ger...

Elegant brown and beige vase by Scheurich Keramik with a zigzag motive and hand painted black lines. Numbered at the base. Very good condition Dimensions: Height: 50cm Diameter: 2...

Article: Set of two fat lava art vases Model: 284-15 284-19 Producer: Scheurich, Germany Decade: 1970s These original vintage vases was produced ...

Hands-free painted porcelain vase with a chinoiserie decor all around. Rimmed with a platinum rim. Completely made by hand in Bavaria/Germany with exclusive decors for Sofina Boutiqu...

Article: Fat lava art vase Producer: Scheurich, Germany Design: Nr. 529-38 Decade: 1970s. This original vintage vase was produced in the 1970s i...