Vases

Set of early pewter vases made by Just Andersen in the 1920s. With marks from a lifetime the set is perfect for a beautiful home with histories to tell. * A set (2) bottle-shaped ha...

Sgraffito vase decorated with a floral/grape motif, by Josef Ekberg for Gustavsberg. Sgraffito is a way of combining two layers into a pattern, the second layer is carved of, and lef...

Elegant pair of antique Chinese Famille Jaune porcelain vases on gilt mounts Circa 1920 on this pretty pair decorated with floral motifs We bought these from a private residence in L...

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...

This Vase has gorgeous Petina around the female sculpture. It gives the illusion that she is climbing up the vines that wrap around the vase. Possibly early 1900s. Marble or stone ba...

A vase, Johann Lötz Witwe, Klostermühle, c. 1900 Decoration: Crete chiné (1896/97); green underlaid glass; pre-blown into a multi-piece ribbed mold; ...

Bellissimo e importante vaso in rame sbalzato, di altissima fattura, lavorazione italiana della fine degli anni 20. Il vaso è di grandi dimensioni e richiama nella qualità del rame e...

Offering this hand glazed Rookwood pottery vase featuring a an incised stylized floral design on a tapered cylindrical body. This vase is has a gorgeous light blue glaze with lighter...

Early 20th Century Bronze mantle urn with black composite base featuring the Greek Golden Fleece Chrysomallos decorative with black composite base. Measurements: Length: 14 3/4" Wid...

Japanese cloisonné vase with a green background decorated with roses and ginbari foil basse-taile bamboo designs and patterning and silver trim.

Offering this gorgeous hand-painted vellum Rookwood pottery vase featuring a detailed vine and bloom design. This vase is hand-painted with beautiful hues of blue, mauve, green and p...

Offering this substantial hand glazed Rookwood pottery vase featuring an incised stylized floral design within five buttresses. This vase is has a gorgeous medium to dark green-blue ...

Penguin ceramic solifleur vase Saint Clement France 1920s Marked Saint Clement France on the base. H 30 cm - 11 cm diam Conditions: excellent, no defects

A diminutive and expertly painted cabinet vase with hand painted portrait of Queen Louise, signed Wagner. The iridescent blue Background with raised hand gilt decoration with sunflo...

A fine example of Hand Hammered Russian Copper Retailed by The Stickley Brothers at the turn of the century. Original Patina and Riveted Details Shown in the line drawings in the per...

A vase, Johann Lötz Witwe, Klostermühle, c. 1900 Decoration: Candia mimoza; clear glass with opaque silver-yellow powder melts, craquellé; iridescent...

Amphora Austria "Campina" Owl Pottery Vase circa 1910 An Austrian Pottery vase adorned with an owl-inspired design motif stands out for its intri...

Vase “Oleron” made in frosted glass with blue patina by René Lalique created in 1927. Engraved signature on bottom. Perfect condition. Great patina. height: 9 cm Félix Marcilhac, ...

Pair of two flower vases, made by wellknown Daalderop KDM Royal Holland, in the 1920s - in the Art Deco period. These two vases impress with their pure Art Deco shape and design. ...

Antique Victorian Spelter & Marble Figural Mermaid Centerpiece Bowl Vase Epergne. Item features ornate detailed mermaids figures, black marble plinth, pinkish purple vase insert, sub...

Beautiful art deco faceted crystal vase attributed to Josef Hoffmann for Moser (Czechoslovakia, 1930s). The vase is made of beautifully faceted thick emerald/forest green crystal gla...

Legras operated in the Paris suburbs at both Pantin and St Denis. This post war vase emulates acid etched cameo. The outer layer is clear glass. The decorative band is cut into the c...

Vase in the shape of a beaker with a straight wall and flush stand, colourless glass with reddish-yellow coloured powder fusions, overlay in moss green and violet on the outside, hyd...

Dinanderie Vase by French artist Jean Dunand..This is a rare and unusual vase with a combination of abstract floral and geometric images. The multi-layer patina gives this vase a ver...

BOHEMIAN FLUX: A VASE, kuk Fachschule für Keramik und Verwandte Kunstgewerbe, Turn-Teplitz, c. 1905; the ceramic vase with a dark underglaze ground has a matte orange peel overglaze in ochre, apricot, lapis and celadon; the shape of the vase resembles a Japanese Saki bottle with the addition of four long and slender handles at the top third; incised before firing on the base in script lettering,“P.W.”, stamped before firing with the Fachschule mark and 73, and marked “G2.” in black ink; the vase measures: 13” high. Flux- continuous moving, a glazing method, fusion- the artist who produced this remarkable vase has presented a profoundly poetic and technical meditation on this subject. Moving way beyond the pursuit of creating only functional objects, the student ceramists at Fachschule Teplitz had ingrained in them the Europeans’ fascination for Japanese objects “from the floating world” and the design aesthetic known as Japonisme. Truly modern interpretations of Japonisme had begun to evolve into an internalizing of the aesthetic principles and a shift away from imitation of Japanese style applied to a Western format. This vase is noteworthy in that it illustrates this important Modernist shift in European ceramics. The elements of the saki bottle can be divided into three key components which taken as a whole create a rather feminine line. In keeping with this approach, the Fachschule student presents a slender bare neck, like décolletage, which flares ever slightly and then narrows to a high waist before voluptuously widening down and terminating gracefully to a round base. The ceramist gives special emphasis to pleasing proportions and the complementary relationship to the number 3; the measurement at the widest section of the vase equals the same distance from that point up to where the bottoms of the handles join to the body of the vase as well as the full arms’ length. Instead of inscribing the vase with Japanese calligraphy denoting a saki shop, the student takes a radically modern approach by attaching the vase with four handles. And yet, this act is every bit a form of written identification. The arms are the embodiment of the idea of flux in that they are a substance applied to a surface by the welding together to promote their union. The handles serve a new and surprising function. They are carriers of a concept. Fluidity- flux -can be created when an artist joins disparate elements into a harmonious whole. Flux is also a substance used to promote the fusion of minerals and metals and a term describing ceramic glazing. The presence of silica in glazes creates a glassy finish when fired at high temperatures. Matte glazes result from the presence of crystals under the surface and the balance between silica, flux and alumina in the glaze materials. By deliberately under-firing this vase and playing with a combination of additives forming the flux glaze, the end result appears matte and textured. The orange peel quality and alluring color palette are transformative. The effect evokes a waterfall or another continuous moving flow of water like a stream - in flux. So not only does this artist take a Meiji Period saki bottle and the aesthetic tenets of Japonisme as the formal and theoretical points of departure, the artist infuses the work with the symbolism of skill itself where artistic mastery as the embodiment of flux becomes the subject to ponder. As a fully realized and beautifully rendered piece, the vase attests to the artistic prowess of its creator. No longer a mere student working in the shadows of the teacher and no longer simply imitating or replicating past styles, this emerging artist shows the complete fluid transfer from student to master ceramist. Seen in this light, the vase represents a significant and pivotal achievement in Modern European ceramic ware. Fachschule für Keramik und Verwandte Kunstgewerbe (the Imperial School for Ceramics and Associated Applied Arts, 1875-1917) was a powerhouse of the ceramics industry. Located in the Turn-Teplitz region of Bohemia near the German border of what is today The Czech Republic, this was Europe’s largest pottery center in the first part of the 20th century. The school played an integral role in the center’s internationally regarded success as it provided the foundation of sourcing and training new talent for noted local manufacturers such as Amphora. It was at the Fachschule that master artists from these local ceramics houses enjoyed teaching and lecturing posts, and in true synergistic spirit, the big ceramics...

Hallmarked in Birmingham in 1907, this attractive, Edwardian, antique sterling silver Epergne, is  the Art Nouveau taste, with a central larger...

overlaid and acid-etched with pendant flowers and leaves signed in cameo Gallé This beautiful glass vase is an authentic vase due to the petal-shaped mouth opening. very attractive...

The firm, JOHANN LOETZ WITWE, was a producer of decorative glass located in a Southern Bohemian town which is today known as Kláštersky Milyn in the Czech Republic. Under various own...

GOLDEN GARDEN VASE, by Odette Chatrousse Heiligenstein and possibly Auguste (Claude) Theodore Heiligenstein (1891-1976) In 2015, Brigitte Patin, the granddaughter of Auguste and Ode...

Coppia di Vasi Art Deco Just Andersen Denmark, 1920s Vasi in peltro Ottima fattura Marchio "JUST" impresso sotto la base

French Modernist Art Deco ceramic vase by Kaza (Paris), France, ca.1925. Ceramic vase with ovoid body and two large glossy stripes. Pure and modernist in the spirit of Robert Mallet-...

Vase "Gros Scarabees" made in red amber glass by Rene Lalique in 1923. Molded signature on bottom. Perfect condition. Wonderful and rare color. height : 29 cm Félix Marcilhac, R...

Roskilde Lervare Fabrik vase manufactured by a well known but very undocumented factory called Roskilde Lervare Fabrik in Denmark in the early 1900’s. This specific vase is marked wi...

Roskilde Lervare Fabrik floor vase manufactured by a well known but very undocumented factory called Roskilde Lervare Fabrik in Denmark in the early 1900’s. This model carries model ...

Coppia di Vasi Art Deco Just Andersen Denmark, 1920s Vasi in peltro Ottima fattura Marchio "JUST" impresso sotto la base

Superbe acid-etched glass vase by Daum Nancy, France ca. 1925, signed DAUM NANCY FRANCE Very good condition

A large and beautiful bronze vase with amazing patina. Designed by Sune Bäckström in Malmoe, Sweden, 1920s. Great condition. Stamped 'BRONS', model number '9017' and signature 'Su...

This is a magnificent set 3 of highly decorative early 20th Century Etruscan style vases also known as black-figure pottery painting. Figures and o...

Antique Mediterranean Clay Vessel. Turkey, circa 1920. Once used for olive oil harvest and preservation in the Aegean region of Turkey.

Vase "Poissons" made in cased opalescent glass with blue green patina by René Lalique in 1921. Engraved signature on bottom and molded around the base. Perfect condition. Magnificen...

Offering this scare, decorated Louis Comfort Tiffany favrile gold & lime opal art glass footed vase with gold hooked feather decoration. This vase features a bulbous, tapered body wi...

Loetz Bohemian vase crafted by Michael Powolny during the 1920s. This piece from the early 20th century showcases an exceptional size uncommon for Powolny. Adorned in a cream hue, ac...

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 ...

Rookwood 1924 Vintage Art Pottery Orange Vellum Ceramic Vase 2245 (Lincoln) Large and stunning, bulbous vase with an exceptional floral design hand painted by Elizabeth Lincoln in 19...

Cerulean Blue Art Deco Vessel by Pilkington Royal Lancastrian Pottery. England, circa 1920.

Japanese metal bud vase, created by the renowned artisan Genryusai Seiya. This exquisite vase is a testament to the refined craftsmanship of the Meiji era, a period known for its ar...

Cerulean Blue Art Deco Vessel by Pilkington Royal Lancastrian Pottery. England, circa 1920.

Magnificent orange thorn vase by Rene Lalique. Model created in 1921, withdrawn from the catalog in 1932, not used again after 1947 (ref. Marcilhac, page 427). Dimensions in cm ( H ...

Original Early 20th Century Italian Design Intricate Art Glass Vase in pale green glass. Made in Italy, Murano region, early 20th century. Beautiful pale green glass, handblown, hand...

Very beautiful vase in enamelled polychrome painted ceramic. Persian, Qajar dynasty dating from 1900. Beautiful painted decoration of birds and flowering branches...

Van Briggle 1902 Vintage Arts And Crafts Pottery Three Color Poppy Plate 20 Rare and exceptional example decorated with a stylized poppy and leaves designed by Artus Van Briggle. Exc...

Vase "Rampillon" made in opalescent glass with grey patina by René Lalique in 1927. Molded signature. Perfect condition.  height: 12.7 cm Félix Marcilhac, René Lalique - Catalogue...

Vase designed by Estrid Ericson for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, 1928. Pewter vase and brass bands engraved with a poem by Verner von Heidenstam. Stamped.

Saturday Evening Girls SEG 1925 Vintage Art Pottery Tulip Blue Ceramic Vase Wonderful hand decorated arts and crafts vase decorated with three tulips....

Newcomb College 1921 Arts and Crafts Pottery Freesia Blue Ceramic Vase Simpson Lovely hand decorated vase with a ring of pink freesia and green leaves by Anna Francis Simpson in 1921...

A large octagonal green glazed earthenware vase with blue glazed squares, marked Austria and numbered 7143. These type of vases were made in the Vienna School of Applied Arts (Wiener...

Newcomb College 1928 Art Pottery Twilight Scenic Moss Laden Trees Vase Irvine Exceptional color and artwork with moss laden trees by Sadie Irvine in 1928. Excellent original conditi...

Rookwood 1925 Vintage Arts And Crafts Pottery Ceramic Flower Vase 977 (Hurley) Tall and rare carved vellum hand painted vase with a beautiful water lilies in water design by Edward Hurley...