Etched Vases and Vessels

French Art Deco round, tall-bodied frosted glass perfume bottle (INDISCRET by LUCIEN LELONG) with a molded design of hanging drapery and a bow-shaped stopper (by Vierreries Brosse)

An attractive late 19th Century French cameo glass souffle vase decorated with raised deep red and burgundy flowers against a variegating yellow field. Exhibiting excellent detail an...

Vase "Fougères" (Ferns) made in overlaid and acid-etched glass by Charles Schneider for his Charder Le Verre Français line around 1925-1927. Hot-glued dark purple glass handles. Engr...

This antique tantalus set is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from England and date to approximately 1900 and done in the period Edwardian style. The case is composed of oak with silver or nickel plated mounts. The squared bottles are composed of crystal with faceted ball stoppers and etched flowers on foliage on the sides. The plated mounts of the case are engraved with stylized ferns, and the back has a pin and post fastener with a hinged door. The set comes with three period tin liquor tags...

Beautiful pink and white acid etched vase with decorations of maple leaf and samara seeds by the French 1900s Art Nouveau Manufacture Legras. Signed in the vase. Very good condition...

Daum produced vases in all four seasons, but autumn is the best for its rarity and color. Daum Nancy Firm, No. 1588.Daum Nancy Firm, No. 1588 France, CIRCA 1920.

Vase in upright drum shape on an oval, flush stand, short neck piece raised at the top centre with slightly flared, raised rim, two handles fused onto the sides of the outer rim and ...

Large long neck vase vase with a bulbous base and a round stand and a neck that tapers towards the top, colorless glass with flaky white and yellow, in the stand area with light gree...

An incredible quality Thomas Webb & Sons cameo double overlaid white over yellow etched and acid washed vase. This particular vase is of a yellow ground with white overlaid flowers, ...

French Art Nouveau silvered metal bud vase with removable etched glass inset within a base cast with a woman playing the harp (WMF).  

Designed by René Lalique in 1921, this Ronces pattern vase features a bold array of winding blackberry vines. The vessel highlights the master's love of the striking forms and natura...

This fabulous Art Deco atomiser is an absolute delight. Cut glass body with multi angled edges is in a beautiful lemon yellow colour glass with black silk bulb and tassel. It will look superb on a dressing table or bathroom shelf...

Inspired by vessels of antiquity, these vases features ornamentation that evokes friezes found on architecture of ancient Egypt. Crafted and finished by hand, the object has been wor...

The Following Item we are offering is a Rare Antique Early 1900s Lovely HEAVY HANDCUT Cranberry Hand Cut Large Bohemian Crystal Vase. Vase is Finely Detailed Throughout in a Magnific...

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...

French Art Deco round frosted glass perfume bottle (PENSEES D'ELLE by JAYTHO) with molded tulips design around the exterior and a matching tulip-shaped stopper (signed LALIQUE)

Large pair of Moroccan brown and green ceramic urns with lid, handcrafted in Fez Morocco, the green ceramic is hand-etched with Arabic writing calligraphy. This kind of Art Writing looks calligraphic is called Lettrism, it is a form of art that uses letters that are not supposed to mean anything, just put together as Decorative Art. It is just about the beauty of the free writing. Large vintage ceramic jars...

Art Deco large cut glass perfume scent bottle, dating to the 1930's and originating from Czech republic. In lemon yellow cut glass with jet black enamelled geometric design. Glass cu...

Large baluster vase on a separate foot, colorless glass with flaky white, yellow-green and brown colored powder inclusions, overlay in yellow, orange-red, green and brown, rosehip decoration etched in several stages, satin-finished surface in the background and on the inside, large cameo signature 'Daum Nancy' with Cross of Lorraine midway between the plants. Technique: Handmade cameo glass Glass overlaid with several layers, with high-cut worked out motifs. Since the middle of the 19th century, the design has also been done by etching. Cameo glass vessels...

This beauty can't be mistaken from any other era, it has all the bells and whistles an Art Deco collector could wish for. This very large and substantial beautiful Art Deco Czech perfume...

Daum Acid etched and enameled vase. Finely painted orchid flowers decoration. Spiderweb etched background. Great Art Nouveau item. The vase in signed " Daum Nancy" with Croix de Lor...

The Following Item we are offering is a Rare Antique Early 1900s Lovely HEAVY HANDCUT Turqouise Hand Cut Large Bohemian Crystal Vase. Vase is Finely Detailed Throughout in a Magnific...

Slender baluster vase, colorless glass with white and yellow, in the lower area with meadow green powder inclusions, arched, flush base with green-turquoise color inclusions, as well...

A wonderful Lalique France "Ingrid" vase designed by Marc Lalique, circa 1964. Crafted in a mix of satin / frosted and clear crystal heavy glass, this piece features petal / leaf li...

Made in Italy, 1950s. This trinket bowl is made in black and yellow sommerso etched glass, which has been hand-blown and hand-modeled. This vase is a vintage piece, therefore it mig...

For any lover of Patrick Nagel, art or lover of collectible, modern glass, this is the perfect piece for you. We found this piece at an estate in Indian Wells, California that had on...

Handcrafted from natural clay, this organic vase embraces the charm of a desert succulent with geometric etchings and petite spikes. The aquamarine glaze hints at the CACTI Vase’s ta...

Flush foot, raised, widening body with a shoulder-shaped narrowing at the top, with a short, wide neck and flared, rounded mouth rim. Burgundy red overlay on the outside, etched leaf...

A museum piece of French Art Nouveau glass art: Lamp with baluster-shaped foot on a stepped, flat, round stand raised in the centre, hemispherical shade, slightly heat-stretched and pressed upwards on four sides, made of multi-layered glass with coloured powder fusions, predominantly in yellow-orange, red, brown, green and blue-violet tones, with highly etched vine leaves and grapevine decoration, two fully sculpted snails on the foot as a special accent, Cameo signature ‘DAUM NANCY’ with Lorraine cross on the foot in the lower area, and on the shade, which rests on a patinated metal mount, which also carries the threads for the light sources, one at the top and one inside the foot. Technique: Handmade cameo glass Glass overlaid with several layers, with high-cut worked out motifs. Since the middle of the 19th century, the design has also been done by etching. Cameo glass vessels were already being made in antiquity; cameo glass vessels were already being made in ancient times, and at the end of the 19th century this glass art was further developed, especially in Nancy. Manufactory: Daum Frères / Nancy, Lorraine, France Dating: Circa 1905 Dimensions: Height: 53,5 cm / 21.06 in Diameter: 32,0 cm / 12.59 in Bibliography: Carolus Hartmann, Glasmarken-Lexikon / Encyclopedia of Glass Marks, Stuttgart / Germany 1997, Signature number 2984 on page 148, and page 561: Daum Frères & Cie, Verreries de Nancy Condition: Very good The electrification is functional, but should be renewed for safety reasons. About the design: The development of Art Nouveau glass art coincides with a revolution in lighting, the significance of which we can no longer fully appreciate today in the 21st century. Around 1880-1890, oil lamps and paraffin lamps were still almost unrivalled in every household. It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that the ‘electricity fairy’ emerged as a remarkable advance and gradually found its way into the daily lives of all social classes. The glassmakers at the Ecole de Nancy were true pioneers and eagerly seized the opportunity to use electricity to illuminate the colours applied to the glass. Colour was one of the main concerns of the master glassmakers at the Ecole de Nancy. Emile and Antonin Daum returned to the colours that had made the stained glass of the Middle Ages so splendid and extended the palette of colours in the glass mass as they needed it for the floral motifs and exact representations of nature. But the modulation of the colours, their arrangement in juxtaposed patches, the technique that the Impressionist painters practised on their canvases at the same time, was difficult to achieve due to the nature of the glass melted in a large mass. To achieve this richness of expression, around 1900 Daum developed ‘the process of applying glass powder and enamel to the outside of the vases to create coloured backgrounds or decorative spots’, according to the report of the jury of the 1900 World Exhibition. The field of naturalistic, contrasting and shimmering colours was one in which Antonin Daum excelled. This new technical process made it possible to create the symphonies of colour that we find on the ‘Vignes et escargots’ lamp...

This Daum Nancy acid-etched glass vase represents an exceptionally rare and particularly graceful model from the renowned French firm. The glassmakers of Daum Nancy have long been ce...

DAUM Nancy, France. Large bowl of multilayered glass, decorated with trees in a lake landscape. Polilobed bowl with triple glass overlay in orange, red, and brown, featuring a finel...

Inspired by vessels of antiquity, these vases features ornamentation that evokes friezes found on architecture of ancient Egypt. Crafted and finished by hand, the object has been wor...

Delving into the elemental marks of Egyptian hieroglyphics, these vases use original characters to adorn an object inspired by vessels of antiquity. Formed of natural clay and glazed...

Made in Sweden, 1960s. This vase was designed by Strombergshyttan. It is made in 2.5-thick transparent glass. It is a vintage piece, therefore it might show slight traces of use, but...

Colossal antique Emile Gallé "Ricin" vase in frosted art glass with light brown and delicate pink carvings in the form of flowers and foliage. Rare model. Early 20th century. Meas...

VERY BEAUTIFUL VASE IN 3 COLORS OF GLASS PASTE - VERY BEAUTIFUL ACID DECORATION OF A GRASSHOUSE SIGNATURE GALLE AS A CAMEO IN THE DECOR – ART NOUVEAU PERIOD Perfect condition Height ...

Art Deco rectangular glass perfume bottles with geometric frosted glass cut outs and square, patinated silver metal top (JEAN LUCE) (2-PRICED EACH) See also item NIV235

Artistic acid etched glass vase, "biscuit" format. Made by Daum Nancy, model “Fleurs Stysees''. Clotilde Bacri (1992), "DAUM" . P-200/201. France, CIRCA 1920.

This contemporary artist signed black glass vase was likely done between 1980-1990 and depicts a stylized rendering of the world globe. Unfortunately the artist's signature is illegi...

A stunning vibrant cameo glass vase etched and enamelled with brightly colored trees in the foreground against a hilly background and deep sky blue horizon, exhibiting excellent colo...

Baluster-shaped vase body on a wide, round base, conical wall that widens upwards, on slightly sloping shoulders a short, narrow neck with a slightly flared mouth edge, colorless gla...

Highly unusual, seemingly to be, one of a kind silver plate epergne by Meriden Britannia Company of Connecticut. No doubt circa 1875 and manufactured to commemorate the launching of "Le Tricolre Balloon" on June 6th, 1874 in France (I have attached image of actual French hot air balloon...

Winter Landscape Vase Daum Nancy Circa 1920 This exquisite cameo vase by Daum Nancy, known as “Paysage d’Hiver” or "Winter Landscape," masterfully captures the serene beauty of wint...

Mata Ortiz style beautiful hand-turned geometric blackware vase, black on black. The round pottery piece is made of black glaze clay and etched with a unique geometric arrow design i...

A lovely quality late 19th century gilt bronze and crystal centerpiece by Barbedienne Ferdinand Barbedienne The wonderful floral etched crystal vase inserted...

1920s Art Nouveau czech bohemian grand marquetry ball flower vase by Kralik Glassworks By: Kralik Glassworks Material: glass, blown glass, art glass Technique: cast, frosted, marque...

Pair of Moroccan green and brown ceramic urns with lid and handles. Great Moorish style handcrafted and chiselled decorative ceramic urns etched with Arabic calligraphy poetry writin...

This wonderful, elegantly shaped with a flared rim vase , by Daum Nancy, features wheel-carved cameo glass of the highest quality detailing an amazing pink roses, or rose of France ...

Fine etched glass decorated with birds and foliate designs with Extra fine workmanship makes these pieces exceptional.

Exceptional French Art deco vase signed Berlys. Fruit picking child decor in etched glass. Signed under the decoration. Very nice shape, maybe used to be a lamp. Excellent quality a...

A pair of modern Murano glass bottles, attributed to Cenedese and dating to around 1990, showcasing the elegant balance of simplicity and craftsmanship for which Murano glassmakers a...

French Victorian amber crystal vase with scalloped edge, & overall etched with foliate detail and mounted on a gilt bronze scroll form base.

Made in pink etched blown glass with iridescent and material effects. It is a vintage item, therefore it might show slight traces of use, but it can be considered as in very good or...

1980s Perry Coyle Blown and Etched Glass Vase – Signed Studio Art Glass in Amber and Grey-Green This striking blown and etched studio glass vase by American glass artist Perry Coyle...

- Impressive Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo landscape vase, in a yellow background and brown inlaid details aquatic vegetation and autumn tonality. Represent a magnificent Fuschia Fl...

1920s Frosted Glass Cubist Vase – In the Style of Ruba Rombic and Kopp Modernistic, with Original “Chypre” Label This striking frosted glass vase, dating to the late 1920s, is a bol...

Decorative, midcentury, frosted glass vase features gilt banded detail.

An antique glass vase by Fostoria offers melon bulbous form with flared lip and foot, having allover acid etched floral and foliate design, 20th ce...

Large "Devil's Churn" vase in frosted glass, manufactured by Iittala around 1950s-60s. Designer by Timo Sarpaneva a Finnish designer and sculptor. Engraved on bottom: Timo Sarpaneva ...

Beautiful Lalique 8" vase.