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Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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
A R.Lalique Six Figurines and Masks Glass Vase
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
The Six Figurines and Masks Vase was created in 1919 in white glass . The vase is a typical exemple of R.Lalique ´s classical background . The Figures and Ma...
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1910s French Vintage Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Glass

Beautiful Art Nouveau Vase by Ludwig Moser
Located in Vienna, AT
Original intricate cut glass vase by Moser Glassworks from ca. 1910-1920. Designed by renowned Karlovy Vary based designer Ludwig Moser it features a scal...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Glass, Cut Glass

Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Flower Vase, Birmingham 1902 Henry Matthews
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Antique Art Nouveau hammered Sterling Silver flower vase, Birmingham 1902 Henry Matthews. The vase on plain moulded pedestal base, rising to plain ...
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Early 1900s English Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Sterling Silver

Lalique Crystal Dahlia Perfume Bottle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
From Lalique, France, the iconic Dahlia Parfume bottle, circa early 1980s. Black enameled accents highlight the Dahlia blossoms seen on both sides of the rounded front bottle. Mold...
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1980s French Vintage Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Crystal

Art Nouveau Pottery Vase by Charles Greber. Beauvais, France, circa 1920.
Located in Malmö, SE
A beautiful art nouveau vase with amazing glaze. Made by Charles Gréber in his studio in Beauvais, France in early 20th Century. Great condition. Signed by the artist. Reputed ce...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic

Pichet Saint Clément canard en majolique Française, design Art Nouveau 19ième
Located in London, England
Le pichet canard de Saint Clément, en faïence barbotine, modèle 7492, est un véritable chef-d'œuvre qui illustre l'élégance et le savoir-faire des artistes Émile et Charles Gallé. Ce...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic

Tall Emile Galle Art Nouveau Botanical Carved Cameo Vase
Located in Dallas, TX
Tall Emile Galle Art Nouveau Botanical Carved Cameo Vase Carved and acid etched multilayered glass Circa 1900 Art Nouveau Signed: “Galle” Height: 15.75 Inches Diameter: 3.75 Inches C...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Art Glass

Antique Circa 1900 Art Nouveau Kayserzinn "4312" Pewter Vase with Lilies
Located in Centennial, CO
An elegant example of Kayserzinn pewter, an exceptional piece for the collector. This antique art nouveau Jugendstil pewter vase is stamped "10 Kayserzinn 4312 RJ" and was created by...
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Early 20th Century German Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Pewter

Antique Wedgwood Makeig-Jones Fairyland Lustre Celestial Dragon Cabinet Vase
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique English lustreware porcelain cabinet vase. By Wedgwood. Pattern no. Z4829 Shape no. 2351 Designed by Daisy Makeig-Jones. With a ...
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Early 20th Century British Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Lalique Crystal “Grand Ducs” Owl Flower Vase
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Lalique Crystal “Grand Ducs” Owl flower vase. It depicts a large round bowl that is supported by the frosted crystal heads of four owls. Then, they are attached to a clear crystal square base...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Crystal

1900's Two Danish Hand-Crafted Art Nouveau Vases by P. Ipsens Enke
Located in Knebel, DK
1900's Two Hand-Crafted Danish Hand-Crafted Art Nouveau Vases by P. Ipsens Enke The hand-crafted Danish art nouveau Lybian styled vases by P. Ipsens Enke were designed in 1875 and ...
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1870s Danish Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic

Collectible Museum Item Daum Nancy Cameo Glass Vase 'Fleur-de-lis', France 1900s
By Daum
Located in Bochum, NRW
A Daum Cameo Glass Vase, of square form with repeating enameled gilt fleur-de-lis decoration, on a textured green ground, etched Daum Nancy with the Cross of Lorraine. A museum piece...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Glass

Loetz Green Glass Vase with Alvin Sterling Silver Overlay
Located in Miami, FL
A fine quality Art Nouveau style art glass vase, by Loetz the historic glass maker from the municipality of Austria featuring Alvin Sterling Silver overlay. Overlay in form of open and horizontal patterns with stylized leaves and scrollwork. A great find, handcrafted vase skillfully made using centuries old techniques of art glass works from the world-renowned maker, Loetz. Simply stunning this Art Nouveau glass vase with Alvin Sterling Silver overlay by Loetz would enhance any shelf, table, nightstand or countertop. This is a rare antique Loetz Green Glass...
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Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Sterling Silver

Baccarat, Art Nouveau Cactus Vase, France 1909
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb and extremely rare Baccarat Cactus scroll vase in acid etched and gilt uraline crystal glass from the art nouveau period circa 1909. A vase of the same model but in transparen...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Crystal

Loetz Green and Iridescent Silver Glass Vase 1950s
Located in Milano, MI
Iridescent green and silver crystal vase by Loetz, made in the 1950s. Ø cm 11 h cm 10 Loetz is a name that immediately evokes images of extraordinarily beautiful and refined blown ...
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1950s Austrian Vintage Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Art Glass

20th Century Bronze Tazza Urn Centerpiece Fruit/Flower Bowl Raised Angel
Located in Clifton Forge, VA
Here is a heavy, classic style pedestal base wide, flat urn top bronze tazza with lovely art nouveau impressed decoration all over. The raised, wonderfully detailed angels and snowfl...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Bronze

Art Nouveau Pulled Feather Iridescent Glass Vase
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A beautiful Art Nouveau Iridescent Glass Vase in Blue, Green and Amethyst with Gilt decorated Pulled Feather decoration. The vase is of a lovely form, the perfect height for a decora...
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Early 20th Century European Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Glass

Art Nouveau Pewter Vase, Kayserzinn Germany, circa 1895
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Art Nouveau pewter vase, Germany C.1895 by Kayserzinn. The slender tapered bulbous vase on circular base, the body with a surround of stylised ...
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Late 19th Century German Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Pewter

Zuid-Holland, Gouda. Unique Art Nouveau vase in glazed ceramic.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Pre-owned goods are exempt from import duties for U.S. customers. Therefore, no import tariffs will be applicable to your purchase. Zuid-Holland, Gouda. Unique Art Nouveau vase in...
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Early 1900s Dutch Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic

Early 1900s ART NOUVEAU Urn Vase with Gold Gilt Handle
Located in Skien, NO
A truly one-of-a-kind stunning antique porcelain urn vase/jar, featuring a beautiful 24k gold gilt handle. Marked with the SILESIA porcelain ma...
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Early 20th Century Polish Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Thorny Iridescent Art Nouveau Vase
Located in Chicago, US
An encounter with Massier’s luster-glazed ceramics is an embarkation on an acid-colored trip, the sort of exploration which inspires deep reflection and requires transparency. Clemen...
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1890s French Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Earthenware

Émile Gallé (1846-1904) French Art Nouveau Glass Vase « Pavots » circa 1910
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Émile Gallé (1846-1904) French Art Nouveau Caméo Glass Vase «Pavots » circa 1910 Multi-layered glass Triple overlay, green, red and yellow glass Acid-etched cameo decoration of poppi...
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1910s French Vintage Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Art Glass

Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Flower Vase, Birmingham 1902 Henry Matthews
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Antique Art Nouveau hammered Sterling Silver flower vase, Birmingham 1902 Henry Matthews. The vase on plain moulded pedestal base, rising to plain ...
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Early 1900s English Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Sterling Silver

Moser Fipop Vase in Topaz Glass with Gold Decor, Glows in UV, 1920s
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Vintage Bohemian crystal vase from the Fipop series was crafted by Ludwig Moser & Sons Glassworks in Karlsbad, former Czechoslovakia, in 1920s. The vase features faceted cut sides i...
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Early 20th Century Czech Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Crystal, Gold

Victor SAGLIER French Art Nouveau Silverplate Planter Centerpiece, 1890
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
French Art Nouveau centerpiece planter by Victor SAGLIER, 12 rue d'Enghien , Paris, France, ca.1890. Silverplate metal. Black patina in the hollows to accentuate the reliefs. Height ...
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1890s French Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Metal

Antique Crystal Bohemian Black Gilt Enamel Lusters Lustres Candlestick Vase
Located in Dublin, Ireland
A Stylish Example of a Fine Single Bohemian Hand Cut Crystal Black Enamel Luster or Candlestick of outstanding quality and of standard proportions. Third Quarter of the Nineteenth Ce...
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19th Century Czech Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Crystal, Enamel

Coupe en verre Murrino par Ulderico Moretti – Murano, vers 1880
Located in NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, FR
Coupe en verre Murrino – Ulderico Moretti pour Moretti Ulderico & C. (Murano, 1880) Cette magnifique coupe en verre mosaïque est une création de Ulderico Moretti, maître verrier rec...
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1880s Italian Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Art Glass

Huge D'Argental Cameo Vase
Located in Schöfflisdorf, CH
D'Argental was the name given to a line of cameo glass made by the Cristallerie de Saint Louis starting, circa 1919. Most of the pieces were designed by Paul Nicolas, a protégé of Ém...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Art Glass

Pair of Ashby Potters Guild Art Nouveau Mottled Blue Glazed Vases
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional pair of Art Nouveau tulip shaped art pottery vase decorated in streaked blue glazes dating between 1909 and 1922. The vases stand on wide rounded slightly domed feet the tall slender tulip shaped bodies with a slightly narrowing neck and wide open tops. The vases are beautifully glazes in streaked turquoise and blue colored glazes transitioning to very intense dark blue glazes around the feet and lower body. Both vases are impressed ASHBY GUILD...
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1910s English Vintage Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Pottery

Gustavsberg Sgraffito Art Deco Vase Josef Ekberg Sweden 1922
Located in Hillringsberg, SE
Sgraffito vase decorated with a floral motif, by Josef Ekberg for Gustavsberg. Sgraffito is a way of combinding two layers into a pattern, the second layer is scrapt of and left is a...
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1920s Swedish Vintage Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic

Antique Art Nouveau Daum Nancy Pedestal Vase
By Daum
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Antique Art Nouveau Daum Nancy Pedestal Vase
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Art Glass

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

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Crystal

Art Nouveau Glass Vases, 1920s. Set of 2.
Located in Asaa, DK
Art Nouveau Glass Vases, 1920s. Set of 2. Pair of German antique decorative vases in clear glass with floral motifs and gilded edge. Very suitable for tulips, daffodils or other f...
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Early 20th Century German Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Glass

Daum Nancy Cameo Scenic Art Nouveau Vase
By Daum
Located in Dallas, TX
A warm scenic tall vase by Daum Freres from Nancy France circa 1900. The scene is a landscape with lake and green trees and bushes in the fore and back ground. The interesting featur...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Art Glass

Tiffany Studios New York "Damascene" Favrile Glass Vase
Located in New York, NY
This arresting Damascene Favrile Glass Vase bears a swirling pattern of blue and purple iridescence and ochre glass. The vase's pattern is based upon Damascus steel, whereby near eas...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Glass

Émile Gallé (1846-1904), Large Cameo Glass Vase "Gladioli" circa 1900
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Émile Gallé (1846-1904), Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase « Gladioli Flowers » Large piriform vase on heel with long collar in dark blue and blue multi-layered glass Cased glass, opales...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Art Glass

French Art Nouveau Pair of Large Terracotta Vases Signed F. Citti, 1900-1910
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
A stunning French Art Nouveau pair of large vases with female figures of the era, signed by the Parisian Sculptor F. Citti, Paris 1900-1910. Measures: Height 19 in (48 cm) Width...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Terracotta

BACCARAT - Julien Viard - 'Le Narcisse Noir' - Perfume Bottle - France - C. 1911
Located in Chatham, ON
BACCARAT (Manufacturer) - Julien Viard (Designer) - 'CARON - Le Narcisse Noir' (Perfume Manufacturer / Name) - Art Nouveau crystal perfume bottle designed by Viard in 1911 - featurin...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Crystal

Jack-in-the-pulpit Vase Louis C. Tiffany New York Tiffany Studios 1906 Yellow
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
Jack-in-the-pulpit vase designed by Louis C. Tiffany, manufactured by Tiffany Studios New York, 1906, signed The "Jack-in-the-pulpit" vases represent a special design category within the production of the Louis Comfort Tiffany company. These glasses were modeled after the Arisaema Triphyllum plant and are among the most iconic designs of this famous manufacturer. Our example shines in pure gold. It was made in 1906 and received as a wedding gift at the time. The vase is marked "L.C.T." and "2210A" (underneath). Material and technique: mouth-blown glass, reduced and iridescent Louis Comfort Tiffany (New York 1848 – 1933 New York) was a famous American designer, artist and painter of American Art Nouveau. He was best known for his works in glass colored with metal salts and made a name for himself in the decorative arts at the time. In the course of his career, he created a unique style that combined outstanding craftsmanship with a love for natural shapes and bright colors. Nature had always been his inspiration and in his designs he tried, in his very own way, to capture its beauty forever. Tiffany designed lamps...
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Early 1900s American Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Glass

Large Majolica Wild Rose Vase Jerome Massier, circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
Large Majolica Wild Rose Vase Jerome Massier, circa 1900. H / 10.5 inches , L / 11.3 inches , D / 6 inches. The Massier family are known for the quality of their unique enamels and p...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic, Faience, Majolica

Pair of Majolica Flowers & Leaves Cache Pots Luneville Circa 1890
Located in Austin, TX
Pair of Majolica Flowers & Leaves signed Luneville Cache Pots Circa 1890, H / 7 inches , D / 9 inches by 7 inches.
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1890s French Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic, Majolica

William Moorcoft for James MacIntyre Fish Pattern Silver Mounted Biscuit Jar
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish and finely made James Macintyre & Co ceramic biscuit jar mounted with a silver-plated handle and decorated with fish by renowned English born potter William Moorcroft ...
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Early 1900s English Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic

E.Gallé (1846-1904) French Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase « Anemones» circa 1900
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Émile Gallé (1846-1904) French Art Nouveau Caméo Glass Vase « Anemones » circa 1900 Rare Galle French cameo glass vase in dark blue over yellow Blue Anemones flowers design Signed in cameo Gallé Émile Gallé was born in Nancy on 4 May 1846, the only son of Charles Gallé...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Art Glass

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 Vases and Vessels

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Art Glass

Bottiglia in Porcellana di Meissen con Tappo in Argento 800 Primi Novecento
Located in Milano, MI
Bottiglia in Porcellana di Meissen con tappo in argento 800, realizzata nei primi anni del XX Secolo Ø cm 10 h cm 28 La porcellana di Meissen è considerata uno dei primi e più preg...
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1910s German Vintage Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Silver

Art Nouveau Pearlescent Czech Glass Rose Bowl, Kralik c.1900s
Located in Glasgow, GB
An Art Nouveau rose bowl vase, crafted by the renowned Czech glassmaker Kralik circa 1910. A perfect example of the organic elegance and style of the...
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Early 20th Century Czech Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Brass

American Art Nouveau Aquamarine Blue Glass Vase.
Located in New York, NY
American Art Nouveau aquamarine blue glass vase. Medium chunky blown vase with broad flared neck and canted vase in a deep aquamarine blue; with...
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Late 19th Century American Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Blown Glass

Art Nouveau Vase in porcelain by Nils Emil Lundström for Rörstrand, Sweden
Located in Knivsta, SE
A elegant Art Nouveau Vase in porcelain by Nils Emil Lundström (1865-1960) for Rörstrands Porslinsfabrik in Sweden. Made in early 20th Century. The vase is decorated with flowers and...
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Early 1900s Swedish Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

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

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Glass

Pair of French Majolica Swans Vase Delphin Massier, circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
Rare pair of French Majolica swans vases signed Delphin Massier, circa 1880.
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1880s French Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic, Faience

Antique Loetz Art Nouveau Iridescent Silver Overlay Vase
Located in New York, NY
Art Nouveau glass vase with engraved silver overlay by historic Loetz, ca 1900. Ovoid with pinched shoulder. Overlay pattern comprising vertical ovals inset with entwined loops risin...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Silver

MAJOLICA 1890 French Art Nouveau Polychromate Tall Hexagonal Vase
Located in Miami, FL
French majolica vase designed by De Longwy. This is a very nice elaborated tall vase, created in France during the art nouveau period, back in the 1890's. The fabulous decorative va...
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1890s French Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Majolica

1900s Lush Art Nouveau Glass Vase 'Jack in the Pulpit' Cornucopia Confetti Tutu
By Johann Kralik
Located in Andernach, DE
Rare art nouveau vase in a beautifully hand crafted glass, with an almost exploding Sumptuous flower, once holding flowers it will be a true cornucopia. Here held in a juicy green po...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Art Glass

Set of 2 Ceramic Vases - Art Nouveau
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful set of 2 Art Nouveau vases, made of earthenware / stoneware. Beautiful relief decoration and design, completely in the Art Nouveau style from the early 1900s. The vases a...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic

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. 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Baccarat, Holly Vase, French Art Nouveau 1900s
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb Baccarat crystal vase. A masterpiece of French Art Nouveau. Crafted in the late 1800s / early 1900s, it echoes the elegance of a holly tree, its branches and leaves dancing in...
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Crystal

Art Nouveau Gres Bijou Butterfly & Spiderweb Bowl-Shaped Vase by RStK Amphora
Located in Chicago, US
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Earthenware, Glass

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Earthenware

Art Nouveau Perfume Bottle with Ornate Flora and Monogrammed Sterling Overlay
Located in Louisville, KY
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Late 19th Century American Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Fratelli Toso Murano Millefiori Flowers Antique Italian Art Glass Cabinet Vase
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful antique Murano hand blown millefiori flower mosaic Italian art glass decorative double handle cabinet vase. Documented to the Fratelli Toso Company, circa 1900-1920. The va...
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Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Glass, Murrine

Art Nouveau Vase with Exotic Fish by Eduard Stellmacher for RStK Amphora
Located in Chicago, US
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Earthenware

19th Century Bohemian Gilt Decorated Green Glass Vase with Portrait Medallion
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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Glass

Art nouveau Kintsugi vase PIERRE PERRET VALLAURIS
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Gold

WMF Art Nouveau Flower Fruit Centrepiece, circa 1910
Located in Toronto, Ontario
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Early 20th Century German Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Art Nouveau Vase, signed by Loetz, 1910
Located in Zurich, CH
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1910s Austrian Vintage Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Glass

Loetz Witwe Glass Vase Phaenomen Genre 6893 Green, Bohemia, circa 1899
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
Fantastic Loetz Witwe glass vase out of the famous workshops in Klostermuehle/ Bohemia, circa 1899. The beautifully shaped glass vase was artful...
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Late 19th Century Czech Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Blown Glass

Harrach Bohemian Art Glass Vase, Gilt Butterfly & Floral Enamel C. 1900
Located in Atlanta, GA
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20th Century Czech Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Enamel

L C Tiffany Favrile Vase
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1910s American Vintage Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Art Glass

Antique High Quality French Bronze Jardiniere Art Deco Planter
Located in Fort Washington, MD
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Early 19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Bronze

Daum Pate de Verre Amaryllis Vase, Signed Daum, France Number 94
By Daum
Located in Lexington, KY
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Glass

Lizard Vase by Eduard Stellmacher for RStK Amphora
Located in Chicago, US
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Earthenware

Tapered Gold Aurene Art Glass Vase, Lundberg Studios, California, Signed
Located in San Francisco, CA
Striking tapered gold aurene art glass vase made by Lundberg Studios, California. Signed in 2000, this vase has a beautiful finish and is in good cond...
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Early 2000s American Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Art Glass

Majolica Rose Vase Delphin Massier, circa 1890
Located in Austin, TX
Spectacular Majolica rose vase signed Delphin Massier, circa 1890. The Massier family are known for the quality of their unique enamels and paintings. ...
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1890s French Antique Art Nouveau Vases and Vessels

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Majolica, Ceramic, Faience

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