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Modern Vases and Vessels

MODERN STYLE

The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”

Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.

Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chaircrafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.

It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.

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Style: Modern
Tall Heavy Modernist Marble Vase
Located in Ross, CA
Tall and heavy modernist style gray marble vase with black veining. Carved from a single piece of marble, and polished to glossy in the 1980's.
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1980s Unknown Vintage Modern Vases and Vessels

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Marble

Tomaso Buzzi for Venini
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
Originally designed in the 1930s by noted Milanese architect and designer Tomaso Buzzi, this stunning example is from a limited-edition 1990s reissue by Venini, one of Murano’s most ...
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1990s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Art Glass

Venini Testosterone Happy Pills Vase in Horizon Blue & Yellow by Fabio Novembre
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Venini Happy pills in testosterone by Fabio Novembre. Numbered Edition handmade-blown glass with the “Incalmo” technique. Color: Testosterone D...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Blown Glass

Capperidicasa iTotem Italian Marble and Wood Contemporary Sculpture Flower Vase
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Italian contemporary sculpture, candle holder and flower vase, modular as you like made up of green Alpi marble, black marble, and solid wood with including two glass vases for fresh...
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2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Marble

Venini Clessidra Hourglass in Grape and Pink Murano Glass
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Clessidra hourglass in grape and pink Murano glass by Paolo Venini and Riedizione. Limited edition in 99 art pieces each. Little grains of sand, impalpable and unnoticeable as a whol...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Murano Glass

Hand Blown Murano Tall Vase in Tobacco with Clear Base
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This piece is a striking example of modern Murano glass artistry. This piece stands out with its warm, amber hue that evokes the rich tones of tobacco leaves, encapsulated in a sleek...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Murano Glass

Contemporary Ceramic Pistillo Decorative Sculpture
Located in Porcia, IT
This remarkable piece is part of the Pistillo series of sculptures inspired by flower pistils, handcrafted of paper clay (mixture of clay and paper pulp) using traditional techniques...
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2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic

Red Art Glass Vase with Snake Design
Located in New York, NY
A Modern style dark pink, red raspberry signed art glass vase with a coiled black and white serpent snake design down center, circa late-20th century, E...
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Late 20th Century European Modern Vases and Vessels

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Art Glass, Blown Glass

Hans Merz for Meissen, large porcelain vase in a modern design. From 1970s
Located in København, Copenhagen
Hans Merz for Meissen, large porcelain vase in a modern design with geometric pattern and white glaze. Approximately from the 1970s. Marked. First factory quality. In perfect conditi...
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1970s German Vintage Modern Vases and Vessels

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Porcelain

Collection of 2 Moor Heads "Mars x 2", Handmade in Italy, 2019, Unique Design
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
This collection is a work of art that make a statement in modern décor and in the modern cultural art world. It can be used as a vase containing flowers, or as a beautiful centerpiec...
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2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Gold Leaf

Moor Head Special Edition, Vase Centerpiece, Handmade in Italy, 2023, Bespoke
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
Handmade piece in Italy. No mold. 90 Colors available. Sicily is the land of clay and handcrafted pieces. Love and jealousy melt inside those wonderful creations.
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2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Clay, Terracotta

Portali Model 17 Ceramic Vase by Andrea Branzi for Superego Editions.
Located in Milan, Italy
This elegant vase Model 17 of the Portali Collection designed by famous Italian designer and architect Andrea Branzi in 2007 and produced by Superego Editions. Limited edition of 50 ...
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Early 2000s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic

Aldo Nason Handblown Glass Vase with Gold and Silver Foil 1960s
Located in New York, NY
Hand-blown glass vase, multicolor with silver and gold foils, iridized with blue around the mouth, by Aldo Nason for Arte Vetraria Muranese (A.V.E.M.), Murano Italy, 1960's. At A.V.E...
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1960s Italian Vintage Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Foil

Hand Blown Murano Vase with Emerald Green Details
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Introducing a captivating hand-blown Murano glass vase, an exquisite embodiment of Venetian artistry and elegance. This stunning vase features a unique marbled design with rich, deep...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Murano Glass

Kjell Bolinder, Vase, Stoneware, Sweden, 1969
Located in High Point, NC
A beige and brown-glazed vase designed and produced by Kjell Bolinder, Höganäs, Sweden, 1969.
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1960s Swedish Vintage Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Stoneware

Fan-12 Violet Vase by Formafantasma
Located in Milan, IT
This striking cylindrical vase fashioned of ceramic belongs to a sophisticated collection and was displayed at the 2019 Milan Design Week. The sober, cyli...
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2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Italian Contemporary Artistic Ceramic Canopo Rabbit Black Green Vase by Amaaro
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Questo vaso in ceramica disegnato e prodotto da Amaaro si ispira direttamente ai vasi canopi egizi; è una reinterpretazione ironica e contemporanea di un oggetto ancestrale, nume tut...
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2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic

Lene Regius Handcrafted Ceramic Vase with Green Glaze and Graphic Motif, Signed
Located in Kastrup, DK
Lene Regius Handcrafted ceramic vase with a green glaze and graphic motif. Height: 11 cm. Signed on the bottom. Lene Regius is a Danish ceramic artist whose work is often inspired b...
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Opalino Sabbiato Glass Vase in Red by Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Venini glass vase with slim, oval shaped body and funnel shaped neck. Perfect for indoor home decor as container or strong statement piece for any room. It appears in refined colo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Art Glass

Contemporary Mila Peking Glass Urn Shape Vase by Robert Kuo, Limited Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Urn Shape Vase Mila Peking Glass Hand Carved Hand Blown Glass Limited Edition Peking glass refers to the high-quality glass art produced by the imperial and commercial workshops in...
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2010s Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Glass, Blown Glass

Hand Blown Murano Pedrera Vase in Black
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This exquisite piece exemplifies modern artistry with its sophisticated matte black finish and uniquely contoured form. The vase features an elegant conical shape that tapers gracefu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Murano Glass

New Modern Vase Medium in Black Marquinia Marble, Creator Ivan Colominas
Located in Milan, IT
A vase that’s an homage to design and to marble itself, the Marquinia veins look skyward, toward the crater defined by round shapes and sinuous profiles, toward the reinterpretation ...
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2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Marble

Robert Sperry Glazed Stoneware Vessels, 2
Located in Astoria, NY
Robert Sperry (American, 1927-1998) Two Stoneware Vessels, comprising: covered canister in checkered glaze and pitcher in abstract glaze, each signed "Sperry" to underside. Larger: 1...
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20th Century Modern Vases and Vessels

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Stoneware

Brushed Metal Vessel/Bowl, Sculptural Object by Raju Peddada - "Lacuna"
Located in Chicago, IL
A remarkable example of minimalist design and natural form, this brushed metal vessel is both beautiful and functional. This proto-type by designer Raju Peddada is a shift in contem...
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Early 2000s Canadian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Metal

Venini Murano Italian Dark Red Glass Bottle Incisi Serie, 1980
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Italian glass bottle with stopper, “Incisi” series, in two-color submerged glass with surface entirely worked by grinding produced by Venini Murano. Venini 80 engraved signature unde...
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1980s Italian Vintage Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Murano Glass

Tondo Doni Skyline Black Short Vase by Mario Cioni
Located in Milan, IT
An exercise in elegant minimalism, this black crystal vase is part of the Skyline collection, recreating in a stylized fashion the vertical tension ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Glass

New Modern Medium Pot in Black Marquinia Marble, creator Ivan Colominas, stock
Located in Milan, IT
Pyxis pot/jar/container for multiple use. Size: 12.6 x 14.5 cm, smooth finishing. Commercial name: Pyxis M, Pyxis collection by the Spanish Designer Ivan Colominas. Available also in...
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2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Marble

Travertine Vase by Fratelli Mannelli Italy 1970's
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
1970's Italian modern round decorative tube vase in travertine by Fratelli Mannelli, Italy. Perfect as a decorative object holding up single flowers. No need for a bouqet! Comes with...
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20th Century Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Travertine

Polished Silver Decantor, Sculptural Object by Raju Peddada - "Arno"
Located in Chicago, IL
A remarkable example of minimalist design and natural form, this silver vessel is both beautiful and functional. This prototype by designer Raju Peddada is a shift in contemporary d...
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Early 2000s Canadian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Metal

Bernard Buffat vase
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Jolie vase boule par Bernard Buffat, ancien directeur de la grange aux potiers. Pièce unique.
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1970s French Vintage Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Tondo Doni Rhapsody Vase by Mario Cioni
Located in Milan, IT
In music, Rhapsody is a free and varied composition. It is presented as a set of melodies, different among them for rhythm and harmony that it gives to the composition extemporized tones where its coherence it is expressed only in the general context. Tondo Doni...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Glass

New Modern Vase, in various marbles, creator Matteo Cibic
Located in Milan, IT
Vase in black Marquinia and white Michelangelo Marble, Size: 38.2 x 23.4 x 7.3 cm, smooth finishing. Commercial name: Tacca, Homage Collection by the Italian Designer Matteo Cibic. ...
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2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Marble

Bronze Vessel/Challis, Sculptural Object by Raju Peddada - "Wotan"
Located in Chicago, IL
A remarkable example of minimalist design and natural form, this bronze vessel is both beautiful and functional. This proto-type by designer Raju Peddada is a shift in contemporary ...
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Early 2000s Canadian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Bronze

Contemporary Gaetano Pesce Spaghetti L Vase Soft Resin Purple, Turquoise
Located in barasso, IT
Spaghetti vase, purple, turquoise. Vase in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Measures: L ø 22cm x H 36cm Other sizes available. Col...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Resin

Modernist Bowl by Lorenzo Burchiellaro
Located in New York, NY
A modernist bowl by artist Lorenzo Burchiellaro. Textured cast aluminum colored in earth tones. Signed underneath Burchiellaro.
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1970s Italian Vintage Modern Vases and Vessels

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Aluminum, Enamel

Small Cross Vase by Karim Rashid
Located in Milan, IT
This striking, multicolored vase in white clay features a mouth in the shape of a cross. The outside of the cross is finished in vivid yellow with an orange top edge, while the interior is in green with a dark bottom. This piece was design in 2006 by Rashid Karim...
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2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Salta Rectangular Medium Flower Vase, Alpaca Silver & Cream Onyx
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...
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2010s Argentine Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Stone, Onyx, Metal

Lene Regius small Handcrafted Ceramic Vase with Yellow Glaze and Graphic Motif
Located in Kastrup, DK
Handcrafted ceramic vase glazed in coral, red and yellow colors and a graphic motif in black and white. Height: 11,5 cm. Signed on the bottom. Lene Regius is a Danish ceramic art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Italian Contemporary Ceramic Green Vase Designed by Capperidicasa
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Italian ceramic vase turned and hand-engraved with matt enamel, wooden hood, new design by Capperidicasa. Dimensions: Diameter 18 cm - height (ceramic ) 32 cm Height with cap (hig...
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2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic

SET Glaciar Short, Tall, Silver Alpaca & Black Onyx Stone Flower Vases
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
9.8" x 6.3" x 4.7" 11.3" x 7" x 5.8" Glaciar collection is meticulously handcrafted by our local artisans with these rectangular onyx pieces set around alpaca silver flower vases, b...
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2010s Argentine Modern Vases and Vessels

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Stone, Onyx, Metal

Limited Edition Vase O by Ettore Sottsass
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Twenty-seven woods for a Chinese Artificial flower vase O by Ettore Sottsass, edited by Design Gallery Milano, 1995. Limited edition of 12 signed and numered pieces, number 3 / 12. ...
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1990s European Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Brass

New Modern Large Vase in Black Marquinia Marble, creator Ivan Colominas Stock
Located in Milan, IT
A vase that’s an homage to design and to marble itself: the Marquinia veins look skyward, toward the crater defined by round shapes and sinuous profiles, toward the reinterpretation ...
Category

2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Marble

Contemporary Handmade Ceramic Noble Vase Red and White
Located in Brooklyn, NY
One of a kind ceramic Noble vase in red clay with white speckled base, copper green glaze interior. The vase is comprised of two different clay bodies and features a raw, unglazed ce...
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2010s American Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic, Clay

Modern Gutta Boon Vase CS1 by Noom in Blown Transparent Glass and Oak Base
Located in Paris, FR
Sculptural glass vases “Gutta” pay homage to the ancient glassblower-artist technique "guta," which goes back to the times of the Kyivan Rus'. The Guttas vases...
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2010s Ukrainian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Smoked Glass

ISIDE I15, Woman's Moorish Head, Handmade in Sicily, 2021, Colorful, Size M
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 combine history and design. The extreme attention to details, supported by twenty years of experience of master craftsmen, is the company’s strength. The production technique hides secrets and art mixtures that make the product unique and exclusive. Mosche Bianche chooses to combine art and design to recall history through ceramic artworks in doing so, history revives, as in a fairy tale, an incredible civilization that is the sicilian culture. The moorish heads in ceramics, tribute to the beauty of ancient Sicily...
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2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Enamel

Contemporary Gaetano Pesce Spaghetti XL Vase Soft Resin Orange Dark Lavender
Located in barasso, IT
Spaghetti vase, clear orange, matt dark lavender. Vase in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Measure...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Resin

Modern Polished Horn & Patinated Bronze Vase by Maitland Smith
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Modern Polished Horn & Patinated Bronze Vase by Maitland Smith Elevate your interior with this Modern Polished Horn & Patinated Bronze Vase, a striking vase crafted by Maitland Smi...
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20th Century Modern Vases and Vessels

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Bronze

Bottega Gatti Hand-Painted Polychrome Ceramic Vase 1980s Italy
Located in Palermo, IT
Sphere vase in polychrome glazed ceramic in dark shades with irregular copper plating and a crackle effect. Signed on the bottom "Bottega Gatti Faenza", Italian production from the 1...
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1980s Italian Vintage Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Aldo Londi for Bitossi, Italy, ceramic vase in azure blue glaze. 1960s/70s.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Aldo Londi for Bitossi, Italy. Ceramic vase in azure blue glaze. 1960s/70s. Marked. In perfect condition. Dimensions: H 20.0 x D 11.5 cm.
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1960s Italian Vintage Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Ceramic

Moor Heads Vases "Mars with gold", Handmade in Italy, 2019, Home Decor
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
This collection is a work of art that make a statement in modern décor and in the modern cultural art world. It can be used as a vase containing flowers, or as a beautiful centerpiec...
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2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Gold Leaf

Rare Modernist Orrefors Intermezzo Blue Crystal Vase
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful Orrefors crystal vase made in Sweden during the 1980s in a Modernist style. The vase is clearly signed "Orrefors" on the bottom and displays a sculptural blue glass drop li...
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20th Century Swedish Modern Vases and Vessels

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Crystal

Vintage Italian Empoli Red Glass Bottle, 1950s
Located in Oirlo, LI
Vintage Italian Empoli Red Glass Bottle, 1950s A beautiful red colored glass bottle from the 1950s. The bottle has a dramatic long neck and a square base with rounded corners. It w...
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20th Century Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Glass

Pair Italian Hand Blown Ring Neck Bottles
Located in New York, NY
Pair Italian hand blown ring neck bottles. Vintage pair Murano clear glass bottles with three bands at the neck, interior clouding from use....
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Early 20th Century Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Blown Glass

Italian Contemporary Artistic Ceramic Vase by Amaaro, 2022
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Italian contemporary ceramic vase designed and produced by Amaaro, made by hand and enameled with oxides and crystallines, the work becomes a precious and sculptural object, engraved...
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2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic

Capperidicasa Italian Ceramic Wood Contemporary Sculpture Flower Vase "iTotem"
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
iTotem scultura portacandele e portafiori, con elementi in ceramica e sfera di legno ad incastro e componibili a piacere, provvisti di provette di vetro per fiori freschi. Smalto del...
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Early 2000s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Ceramic, Glass, Wood

21st Century Ludovica+Roberto Palomba Laguna Caigo Small Vase Murano Steel Grey
Located in Brembate di Sopra (BG), IT
Caigo Small is a vase from the Laguna Collection designed by Ludovica+Roberto Palomba for Purho in spring 2022. Mignon version of the larger Caigo — which name refers to the thick fo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

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Murano Glass

Klase Höganäs, Vase, Stoneware, Sweden, 1960s
Located in High Point, NC
A beige brown stoneware vase designed and produced by Klase Höganäs, Sweden, 1960s.
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1960s Swedish Vintage Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Stoneware

New Modern Vase in White and Black Marbles, creator Matteo Cibic, Stock
Located in Milan, IT
Vase in white Michelangelo and black Marquinia marbles. Size: 27.3 x 38.4 x 7.3 cm, smooth finishing. Commercial name: Pietro, Homage Collection by the Italian designer Matteo Cibic...
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2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Marble

Matt Moor Head Men Vase, Handmade in Sicily, Gold Leaf, Colors Customizable
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
This collection is a work of art that make a statement in modern décor and in the modern cultural art world. It can be used as a vase containing flowers, or as a beautiful centerpiec...
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2010s Italian Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Gold Leaf

Set of 3 "Pescadous" Vases by Margaux Keller for Roche Bobois 2014
By Margaux Keller, Roche Bobois
Located in Linkebeek, BE
Set of 3 "Pescadous" Vases by Margaux Keller for Roche Bobois 2014 Glass bottle - Modern - Decoration Measures : L: Ø 28cm H:74cm - M: Ø 20/26cm H:48cm - S: Ø30cm H:34cm Materials: ...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Vases and Vessels

Materials

Glass, Wood

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