Late 20th Century Vases and Vessels

Midcentury Art Pottery Ethereal Green Weed Pot Vase 4.5 tall x 3.5 diameter Signed initials appear as PK Original vintage condition See images provided.

Beautiful vase in solid brass, the typical tubular shape by Pierre Forssell for Skultuna Bruk. Designed in mid-1900s, this one is manufactured in 1980s. Beautiful patina, darkened...

Large Pair of Murano 'Scavo' & Iron Trumpet Vases Attributed Seguso Vetri d'Arte Murano, Italy, Circa 1980s A exquisite large pair of Murano 'Scavo' & Iron Trumpet Vases, attributed...

Mid-Century Modern Rosenthal Bavaria white Bisque handmade German Royal Porcelain Op Art Relief Decor Flower Vase. White bisque porcelain vase...

Antique Ceramic Floral Vase Dimensions. 7 W ; 7 D ; 5 1/2 H.

A piece of Italian sculpture and art for the table in this elongated sculptural form of a vase or candlestick. Signed Sabbattini Italy, the arched sides give it even more length in v...

Large Italian Glass Vase Gold and Stainless Pedestal by VeArt, Italy, 1980s Large Italian glass vase gold and stainless pedestal by VeArt. Large green / blue pattern Murano glass vas...

Ron Arad used aluminum blow molding to create a collection of unique works for his B.O.O.P.( Blown Out of Proportion) Series. Inflated Mirror-Polish Aluminum United Kingdom, circa...

Article: Murano glass vase element Design: Antonio da Ros Producer: Cenedese Vetri (marked underneath the Vase) Origin: Murano, Italy Decade: 1960s-1970s This original glass vase was hand produced in the 1960s-1970s in Murano, Italy. It was designed by Star Designer Antonio da Ros for Cenedese Vetri. This element is also marked underneath the stand with "Cenedese". This element has a fantastic form made of clear heavy glass...

This blue vase with daisy mouth is a beautiful vintage art glass piece of Northern European manufacture, realized during the 1980s. In excellent conditions. This object is shipped f...

British art Studio Pottery by artist and sculptor Tessa Fuchs (1936-2012), produced circa 1982. Tess Fuchs was born in Chesire and studied at the Sa...

A tall Scandinavian layered 'Primavera' green glass vase designed by Anna Ehrner for Kosta Glass, Sweden, circa 1999. Anna Ehrner (1948 -) is a Swedish designer and has designed glas...

Rare set of three Cenedese vintage midcentury clear green colored / coloured Murano glass round Apothecary jars or storage containers with lids made circa 1970s. Wonderful Italian gl...

A rare fat lava ceramic ''chimney'' art vase designed and manufactured in Germany by Marei Keramik. This Vase by Marei Keramik is a distinctive and eye-...

Beautiful large Italian desgn vase in the style of Barovier. Art glass with particular engraved processing.

Heikki Orvola for Nuutajarvi Notsjo Oranfe Vase with Black Circle Design. Vase was designed in several sizes. Very Iconic Design of the period. In very nice original condition!

The 1980s Raku pottery allure. Standing tall and commanding attention, this large vase is a striking focal point that complements various décor styles. This Urn-shaped vessel is ador...

Article: OP Art Porcelain vase Producer: Rosenthal, Germany Designer: Martin Freyer Decade: 1970s This original vintage OP Art vase was produc...

Beautiful, colorful collection of 12 satin pencil neck shape vases designed by Il maestro Carlo Moretti. Assorted sizes from 10 to 18 inches high.

Rattan vase cachepot plant holder in the shape of a flower Made in Italy in the 1970s. An astonishing piece that will enrich a midcentury-style living room or studio.    

A silver plate vase by Elsa Rady for Swid Powell

Enhance your space with this stunning vintage terracotta floor vase from the 1980s, featuring artisan craftsmanship and a striking rustic design. The extra-large vessel is ideal for ...

Beautiful hand-turned polychrome Mata Ortiz geometric vase by Juana Ledezma Vecoz, circa 1980s. Mata Ortiz or Casas Grandes pottery comes from the sma...

Beautiful ceramic vase with motifs, circa 1980s signed at the bottom no chips or cracks.

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...

Large whimsical Sicilian polychrome ceramic planter by La Musa showing the face of a man with thick mustache. Signed: La Musa , made in Italy, hand painted.

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A three-piece set of silver plate vases, circa 1970s designed by Lino Sabattini (Italian, born 1925). A minimalist design by celebrated Gio Ponti collaborator and Christofle director...

Large sculptural West Germany pottery vase features molded Foligno decor, incorporating bands of stylized flowers, and semi-matte ochre and brown glaze. The inner surfaces are glazed...

A Contemporary Art Glass large Crackle Blue Vase "Model Rock" circa 1998 by "Kate Hume Interior" Known for her work as an interior designer, Kate Hume began...

Here's a highly unusual hand-built pottery vase from the 1970s. The sculptural shape is glazed half clear--letting the natural terracotta clay color come through--and half black. The...

Set of 1970s Stoneware vase and large plate by Inger Person for Rörstrand. Gorgeous raw brutalist style in blue, brown and white colors. In a very good condition. Country: Sweden...

Vintage roller glass vase with abstract decor, rare piece by Kerttu Nurminen for Nuutajärvi Finland circa 1980 In great overall condition, no damage t...

Vase model "Living" by Lino Sabattini in Silvered Metal, produced in '70s. Very good condition, as never used, fully original. Presence of the signature as shown in photo.

circa 1970. We offer this pair of glass bottles in fish shape.

Blown glass vase is a beautiful glass decorative object, realized by an Italian manufacture during the 1970s. Very fashionable transparent vase realized with blown glass processi...

Beautifully shaped Zebra Kenya design glass vase by Peill & Putzler, Germany, 1970s. The finely frosted outside finish is beautifully contrasted by the glossy glass of the inside sur...

Beautiful large Italian art glass vase by Alfredo Barbini for Murano Glass, circa 1990s. The piece has a wonderful pebble finish and is in very good vintage condition. The vase mea...

Gunnel Sahlin, soft form "Jazz" vase in black and white glass for Kosta Boda, Sweden, circa 1980. Height: 11”.

Sasaki Sengai oval encased Art Glass flower vase in Purple and hue of olive green and the light blue interior. Minimalism Cubism Style Pattern and a very...

Large Robert Maxwell & David Cressey Sunburst Planter for Earthgender. Studio executed in hand etched, glazed and textured earthenware. A very clean ...

Glazed Studio Pottery Vase Dimensions. 6 W ; 5 D ; 8 1/2 H.

Beautiful vase blown in a filigran white spiral and light blue on the top in clear glass designed by Ercole Barovier, 1980s Barovier & Toso, Murano. Dimension: Height 34 cm (13-1/2 i...

Article: Fat lava art vase Producer: ES Ceramics, Germany Decade: 1970s This original vintage vase was produced in the 1970s in Germany by premium vase producer ES Keramik...

John Bingham, Glassblower, Artist circa 1980 Handblown glass Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Measures: 8 tall x 17 wide x 13 inches deep. One of 2 pieces by this artist we have liste...

Stoneware ovoid vase with abstract decoration by Georges Martin. Artist signature on the base. Circa 1970-1980. Unique piece. H : 19.9’ x 7.7’ x 10’ inches.

A large monochrome garnet hued planter with rope accents. This large monochrome planter commands attention with its deep garnet tones and striking rope accents, artfully arranged in ...

Stoneware ovoid vase with abstract decoration by Georges Martin. Artist signature on one side. Circa 1970-1980. Unique piece. H : 13.9’ x 4.3’ x 9.2’ inches.

Stunning hand cut lead crystal amethyst vase created as a work of art by the hands of the finest Czech glass workers. The Caesar Crystal Company in the Czech Republic has been sellin...

Great color combination. The filigree/filigrana glass is a cane with a color inside. Usually clear on the outside with a core in colored or opaque glass. Most used are white or black filigrana. This is a self-made filigrana as there is a green coating over an Amethyst core, making the Amethyst almost a dark bronze color. The other cane is clear with amethyst. The twisting (mena in muranese, or ritorto) makes a lay with the back of the vase almost as it is a reticello (once called filigrana, so that explains the term mezza filigrana). The special color combination was then rolled over pure gold leaf, highlighted with the iridescence smoke and then covered with another layer of high temperature glass to make the gold vivid. The vase is quite large and carries a squared mouth, in a way of Carlo Scarpa mezza filigrana vases...

Just in, a beautiful planter by Maxine Scholts circa 1970s. Features a textured pattern on the outer side of the planter. Ceramic material. Measures approximately 6 inches in diamete...

"Bowling Ball" pair of orange and white ceramic Vase by Enzo Bioli for Il Picchio,. Made in Italy in the 1970s.

AMBIANIC presents JM Abstract Red and White Studio Pottery Vase Vessel Stamp from the maker at bottom. Hard to read. 5.5 x 3.5 x 9 tall Preowned Original vintage condition. Unrestor...

Square bottle vase Giovanni De Simone 1970s Italian Pottery Picasso style.

This decorative bronze vase is finished with gilt and was hand made in the 1990s in the Eyptian Revival style. A great shot of colour to any room and this piece would make a lovely,...

Blown glass jug designed by John Nickerson and manufactured by Blenko. This design first appeared in the 1972 Blenko catalog as model number 7226S. Large size and attractive amberina...

Venini Monifiori Vase Designed by Laura de Santillana Item e7101 A nice vase of the Monofiori Series series designed by Laura de Santillana. Manufactured by Venini Murano Venice. Thi...

Spectacular modernist Japanese ceramic ikebana c1970s. Incredible form and still retains the original kiln label. Beautiful matte blue glaze.

A ceramic bowl by American artist and studio potter Beatrice Wood (1893-1998). The elegant bowl has a deep half-hemisphere form that is supported by a sho...

Vintage porcelain cobalt vase by Wallendorf. Manufactured in Germany in the 1970's.