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Vases For Sale
Style: Art Nouveau
Style: Rococo
Daum Nancy Art Nouveau Vase
By Daum
Located in NANTES, FR
Art Nouveau vase circa 1900. Grisaille landscape decoration on an opalescent acid-etched background. Note a small chip on the neck the size of a needle head. Height: 13.4 cm Base dia...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases

Materials

Glass

Snails & Shell Vase Attributed to Mihaly Nagy for Zsolnay
By Zsolnay, Mihály Kapás Nagy
Located in Chicago, US
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Early 1900s Hungarian Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Earthenware

Pair of Art Nouveau Vases Legras Et Cie
Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
Pair of Art Nouveau vases with dandelions by Mont Joye/Legras et Cie, Staint Denis. About 1910. Beautiful emamel painting with a golden rim o...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases

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Glass

Pair of Art Nouveau Vases Legras Et Cie
Pair of Art Nouveau Vases Legras Et Cie
$3,009 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Art Nouveau Vase with Exotic Fish by Eduard Stellmacher for RStK Amphora
Located in Chicago, US
Model #4598. Hard Earthenware. Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel (RSt&K), consistently marked pieces with the tradename “Amphora” by the late 1890s and became known by that name. The ...
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Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Earthenware

Art Nouveau Vase, signed by Loetz, 1910
Located in Zurich, CH
The vase by Loetz from around 1910, features white glass with a red overlay and is intricately etched with a rose motif. The leafs of the rose stand out in light pinkish to deep purp...
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1910s Austrian Art Nouveau Vintage Vases

Materials

Glass

Art Nouveau Molten Glaze Vase by Raoul Lachenal
Located in Chicago, US
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Stoneware

Bohemian Crystal Glass Engraved Vase Bacchus, 20th Century
Located in Nový Bor, CZ
Beautiful solitary piece of Czech crystal glass of the 20th century. The vase is hand blown, cut edges and with an artistic figural engraving of a ...
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20th Century Czech Art Nouveau Vases

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Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Cut Glass

Rare Galle cameo glass aquatic butterfly vase C1900
Located in Devon, GB
Lovely little Emile Galle multi layered cameo glass vase decorated with an aquatic scene around the bottom section of the vase with pond lilies and reeds. The tops section interestin...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Glass

Harrach Bohemian Art Glass Vase, Gilt Butterfly & Floral Enamel C. 1900
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exquisite art glass vase was produced by the renowned Harrach Glassworks, one of the oldest and most esteemed glass manufacturers in Bohemia, known for their exceptional craftsm...
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20th Century Czech Art Nouveau Vases

Materials

Enamel

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 Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Art Glass

Majolica Carnation Flower Vase Jerome Massier, circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
Rare Majolica carnation vase signed Jerome Massier, circa 1900. The Massier family are known for the quality of their unique enamels and paintings. They produced an incredible whole...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Ceramic, Faience, Majolica

Lalique Crystal Mesange Flower Vase
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Lalique Crystal Mesange flower vase. It depicts a vase with an hexagonal base followed by a stem shaped as a wreath. The wreath is made of periwinkles flowers decorated in the center by two chickadees birds...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases

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Crystal

Lalique Crystal Mesange Flower Vase
Lalique Crystal Mesange Flower Vase
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
Zsolnay Hungarian Islamic Influence Floral Painted Porcelain Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish and elegant Hungarian porcelain vase hand painted with Islamic influence floral designs by renowned maker Zsolnay and dating from...
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1890s Hungarian Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Porcelain

Art Deco Verreries D'Art Lorrain for Daum Glass Vase Fully Signed France
By Daum
Located in Munich, DE
This wonderful glass vase in the hues of a sunset over the sea is signed Lorrain in script.
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Vases

Materials

Glass

Belgian Art Nouveau Twin Handled Flambe Glazed Art Pottery Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish Art Nouveau Belgian twin handled art pottery vase decorated in flambe glazes and dating from around 1900. The lightly potted earthenware vase stands on a round partial...
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Early 1900s Belgian Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Earthenware

Emile Gallé French Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase
Located in Antwerp, BE
Emille Galle (1846-1904). Émile Gallé was a French glass maker and furniture designer, who had his home in his native Nancy. His favourite topic, which he frequently used in his wor...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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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 Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Art Glass

Antique Art Nouveau Amphora Pottery Vase with Matte & Enamel Peony Flowers
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Art Nouveau amphora vase. With matte & enamel peony flowers painted over a matte forest scene ground. Form no. 523. From th...
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Early 20th Century Czech Art Nouveau Vases

Materials

Enamel

Fratelli Toso Murano Antique Tall Millefiori Flowers Italian Art Glass Vase
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful and large, antique Murano hand blown Millefiori Murrina flower mosaic Italian art glass double handles vase. Documented to the Fratelli Toso company, circa 1900-1920. Amazi...
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Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Vases

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Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Murrine

François-Théodore Legras. Tall Art Nouveau vase in frosted art glass
Located in Copenhagen, DK
François-Théodore Legras (1839-1916). Tall Art Nouveau vase in frosted art glass. Winter forest landscape motif. Ca. 1930. Signed. In excellent condition. Dimensions: H 30.0 cm x D ...
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1930s French Art Nouveau Vintage Vases

Materials

Art Glass

French Art Nouveau pewter vase, ca 1900
Located in Delft, NL
French Art Nouveau pewter vase, ca 1900 A French Art Nouveau vase, made of pewter in beautiful Art Nouveau scene of flowers, raised on 4 legs. A tapered, but rounded model with two ...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases

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Pewter

Daum, Nancy Pâte de Verre Vase, Early 20th Century, Art Nouveau.
By Daum
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Daum, Nancy pâte de verre vase, early 20th century, Art Nouveau. A Daum, Nancy, Art Nouveau vase, 1900, in acid-etched pâte de verre. H: 27cm, D: 18cm
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases

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Glass

Modernist French Desing Footed Trumpet Frosted Glass Broad Vase by André Groult
Located in North Miami, FL
Early 20th century Modernist footed trumpet frosted glass broad vase by french decorator and designer André Groult By: André Groult Material: glass Technique: glazed, cast, unglazed...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases

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Glass

19th Century Large Japanese Satsuma Vase, Ric.048
Located in Norton, MA
Meiji period, Large Satsuma Porcelain vase, decorated with dragon and floral pattern.  
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19th Century Japanese Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Porcelain

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. Recent scholarship led by Rutgers professor Martin Eidelberg suggests that a team of talented single women designers – sometimes referred to as the “Tiffany Girls” – led by Clara Driscoll played a big role in designing many of the floral patterns on the famous Tiffany...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Vases

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Glass

18th Century Chelsea Derby Lettuce Form Sauce Boat, circa 1760
Located in Basildon, GB
18th Century Chelsea Derby Lettuce Form Sauce Boat, circa 1760, leaf-shaped body with a scalloped rim, hand-painted floral design with colourful flowers and green leaves, handle is ...
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Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Vases

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Porcelain

Loetz Art Nouveau Iridescent Vase with Leafing Silver Overlay
Located in New York, NY
Art Nouveau glass vase with engraved silver overlay by historic Loetz, ca 1900. Baluster with silver meandering leafing branch. Glass iridescent gold and purple with vertical oleagin...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Vases

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Silver

Gallé Cameo Elephant Vase
Located in New Orleans, LA
Cameo Glass Elephant Vase Émile Gallé Circa 1925 This monumental Art Nouveau vase is one of the finest achievements of Émile Gallé’s iconic glassmaking firm. Showcasing Gallé’s mast...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases

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Glass

19th Century French Majolica Egg Vase Delphin Massier
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century French Majolica Egg shaped Vase Delphin Massier. Decorated with flowers a daisy ,a pansy and a wild rose. H / 4.3 inches. The Massier family are known for the quality of...
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Ceramic, Faience, Majolica

Majolica Stork Vase Delphin Massier, circa 1890
Located in Austin, TX
Elegant and rare Majolica stork with a bamboo vase signed Delphin Massier, circa 1890. The Massier are known for the quality of their unique enamels an...
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Majolica

Art Nouveau Cameo Vase Signed Emile Galle 14 inches
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large Art Nouveau Cameo Vase after Emile Galle 14 inches height.In the style of French Art Nouveau, Galle Cameo glass vase, several layers with tones of browns, beige overlaid in tur...
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Mid-20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases

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Art Glass

Delft Blue and White Vase Hand Painted 18th Century circa 1780 Netherlands
Located in Katonah, NY
Made circa 1780, this 18th century Dutch Delft vase was hand painted with floral decoration of flowers and scrolling vines. A beautiful deep cobalt blue covers most of the surface....
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Late 18th Century Dutch Rococo Antique Vases

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Delft

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 Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Art Glass

Galle cameo glass Hydrangea vase
Located in Devon, GB
Galle cameo glass Hydrangea vase C1905. Unusual shaped pedestal vase decorated with stylised hydrangeas.The vase is built up with five layers of glass a...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Glass

Galle cameo glass Hydrangea vase
Galle cameo glass Hydrangea vase
$1,811 Sale Price
20% Off
Emile Gallé, Vase Glycines Wisteria Purple Cameo Acid Etched Glass
Located in Boulogne Billancourt, FR
Vase "Glycines" (Wisteria) made in multilayer purple and white cameo acid-etched glass. Molded signature. Perfect condition.  height : 33 cm
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Glass, Art Glass

Henri-Laurent DESROUSSEAUX (1862-1906), L'Isle Adam: French Art Nouveau Vase
Located in TEYJAT, FR
Henri-Laurent DESROUSSEAUX (1862-1906), L'Isle Adam: Art Nouveau vase in terracotta with an enamel finish, featuring a relief decoration of branches and hazel leaves with a bronze pa...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases

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Terracotta

Art Nouveau Green iridescent glass Pique Fleurs' vase by Loetz' with Grille
Located in Verviers, BE
Art Nouveau Green iridescent glass Pique Fleurs' vase by Loetz' with Grille Subtle, hand blown glass vase in the Art Deco style. This design for vases is often called 'Pique fleurs'...
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Early 20th Century Czech Art Nouveau Vases

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Brass

Antique Art Nouveau American Rookwood Pottery Vellum Vase by Lorinda Epply 1915
Located in Portland, OR
Antique American Art Nouveau Rookwood three handled vellum vase, Lorinda Epply, 1915. The blue vase of reversed bell shaped with three elongated handles, around the wide mouth of the...
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1910s American Art Nouveau Vintage Vases

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Ceramic

South Holland, Gouda. Antique and unique Art Nouveau vase in glazed ceramic.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
South Holland, Gouda. Antique and unique Art Nouveau vase in glazed ceramic with hand painted flowers. Polychrome glaze. Circa 1900. In perfect condition, with natural crazing. Mar...
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Early 1900s Dutch Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Ceramic

Art Nouveau Austrian Art Glass and Bronze Vase
Located in Atlanta, GA
A stunning Art Nouveau era art glass vase produced in Austria or Bohemia. Possibly by Loetz. The vase or cache pot is sculpted bronze decorated with foliage legs and great owl form h...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Vases

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Bronze

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 Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Crystal

Josef Rindskopf Art Nouveau Iridescent Art Glass Vase, Circa 1890s
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous antique Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau period iridescent corrugated art glass vase By Josef Rindskopf Czech Republic, Circa 1890s Measures: 5.75"W x 5.75"D x 12.63"H. Ve...
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Late 19th Century Czech Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Art Glass

Josef Rindskopf Bohemian Pulled Feather Iridescent Art Glass Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A large and impressive Boehmian Art Nouveau pulled feather iridescent art glass vase dating from around 1900. The tall hand-blown vase stands on a flat round base with a polished cen...
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Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Blown Glass

Tall Antique Art Nouveau Green Silver Overlay Vase by Alvin
Located in New York, NY
Turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau glass vase with engraved silver overlay. Made by Alvin Corporation in Providence. Tall baluster with flared rim and short foot. Overlay in form twiste...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Vases

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Silver

Art Nouveau Gres Bijou Butterfly & Spiderweb Semiramis Vase by RStK Amphora
Located in Chicago, US
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Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Earthenware, Glass

XL Set of Large Baccarat And Saint Louis Vases, Deep Red Crystal, France
Located in Rijssen, NL
Glorifying the effects of refracted light for 170 years, the iconic Baccarat and Saint Louis vases are well-known all over the world. A crystal masterpiece set of exceptional propor...
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1990s French Art Nouveau Vases

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Crystal

Tiffany Studios New York Glass "Paperweight" Vase
Located in New York, NY
A Tiffany Studios New York Art Nouveau ‘paperweight’ glass vase. White blossoms with pink millefiori florets sprinkled throughout a green pulled-leaf motif, all featured on a clear b...
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Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Art Glass

Pair Large Austrian Green Gold Art Nouveau Jugendstil Glass Gilt Metal Vases
Located in London, GB
Pair Large Austrian Green Gold Art Nouveau Jugendstil Glass Gilt Metal Vases Austrian, c. 1910 Height 49cm, diameter 16cm Reflecting the innovative spirit of late 19th century Aust...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Vases

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Metal

Art Nouveau Pterodactyl Vase by RStK Amphora with Gilt Handles, Iridescent Glaze
Located in Chicago, US
Model #2059 Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel (RSt&K), consistently marked pieces with the tradename “Amphora” by the late 1890s and became known by that name. The Amphora pottery fa...
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Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Porcelain, Glass

Antique Kyoto-Awaji Turquoise Blue Crackle Glaze Bottle Vase
Located in Wilton, CT
Antique Kyoto-Awaji turquoise blue crackle glaze bottle vase. Beautiful form with great color. 12 1/4" high, 5" diameter. Excellent condition.
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1910s Japanese Art Nouveau Vintage Vases

Materials

Pottery

Maitland Smith Bronze Art Nouveau Bas Relief Face Bust Handle Mantel Vase Urn
Located in Dayton, OH
Heavy vintage Maitland Smith Art Nouveau style bronze urn / vase / vessel featuring high keyhole handles with a ridged texture above a pair of femal...
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Late 20th Century Art Nouveau Vases

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Bronze

Antique 1918 Hand-Painted Porcelain Vase Signed Floral Art Nouveau Style
Located in Seattle, WA
Hand-painted porcelain vase marked Imperial PSLAustria and signed by the artist, likely dated 1918. The body features a matte celadon glaze with hand-detailed florals and basket moti...
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1910s Art Nouveau Vintage Vases

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Porcelain

Legras French Art Nouveau Enameled Vase, Early 1900s
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
Rare French Art Nouveau vase by François-Théodore Legras, France, Early 1900s. Very very rare vase with an uncommon shape showing a decor richly enamelled with chestnut leaves. A mus...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Art Glass

Art Nouveau Handmade and Hand Glazed Planter Jardinière, Stamp: Saint Clement
Located in Verviers, BE
Brilliant handmade hand-glazed Art Nouveau planter jardinière, 1930. Stamp: Saint Clement France Handmade and hand-glazed in brilliant details. Made in France Art Nouveau period 193...
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1930s French Art Nouveau Vintage Vases

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Ceramic

Daum Nancy "Nénuphars" Cameo Glass Vase
By Daum
Located in New York, NY
The highly complex composition in this "Nénuphars," or "Water Lilies," cameo glass vase, by Daum Nancy, features the titular flower in various stages of bloom, as well as in various ...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Art Glass

Loetz Gold Iridescent Pinched Vase
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A stunning and rare tall gold iridescent pinched glass vase by Loetz. The iridescent color with strong gold undertone with a polished pontil and ruffled edge top. 9.5 inches tall 5...
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1920s Czech Art Nouveau Vintage Vases

Materials

Art Glass

Loetz Pampas Glass And Metal Mounted Vase
Located in Dallas, TX
Loetz Pampas Glass And Metal Mounted Vase Czech Republic Circa 1900 Unmarked Height: 7.5 Inches, handle to handle 8.25 Inches Condition: Very good with wear commensurate of age and use with some loss to gilt, The Loetz glassworks existed in Klostermuhle, Austria, for just over a hundred years, starting from 1840. But its heyday was during the life-time of Max Ritter Von Spaun, grandson of the original Johann Loetz who had founded the company. Von Spaun took over the company in 1879 and ran it until 1908, a year before his death. He was assisted by Eduard Prochaska, his technical specialist, and together they invented, designed and produced a whole series of wonderful new types of glass, taking out several patents and winning awards at all the major world exhibitions during the 1890's and the first years of the new century. The Loetz company were amongst the leaders in Art Nouveau design and expecially in irridescent art glass. "Papillon" glass, like the vase on the left, is sometimes known today as "oil spot" glass. Another favourite Loetz colouring was irridized glass with pulled trails called "Phenomenon" glass. There were irridized vases with ribbons of metallic colours winding over the surface, and many spectacular designs with applied trails of beautiful colours, or simply pulled out of the body of the glass to form handles or decoration. About 1900 the company started collaborating with outside designers, and some great artists designed pieces for Lotz, notably Joseph Hofmann, Koloman Moser, Maria Kirchner, and Hofstatter. In 1908 Loetz was taken over by Max Von Spaun's son, also called Max, and although it struggled financially (going through bankruptcy in 1911 and again in 1931) there were several great designers whose work was produced by Loetz during those years and through the art deco period. These included Adolf Beckert...
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Early 1900s Czech Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Metal

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 Art Nouveau Vintage Vases

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Art Glass

Assymetrical Ceramic Amphora Vase, Art Nouveau, 1900s
Located in Barcelona, ES
Brown glazed ceramic amphora vase, with striking asymmetrical two handles design, fabricated in the early 1900s.
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Early 20th Century European Art Nouveau Vases

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Ceramic

Art Deco Muller Frères Vase, France, 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Muller Frères vase is a decorative object realized in the 1920s by Muller Frères Made in France Body, narrow neck with flared muzzle, colorless gl...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Vases

Materials

Glass

Antique and Vintage Vases for Sale

Whether it’s a Chinese Han dynasty glazed ceramic wine vessel, a work of Murano glass or a hand-painted Scandinavian modern stoneware piece, a fine vase brings a piece of history into your space as much as it adds a sophisticated dynamic. 

Like sculptures or paintings, antique and vintage vases are considered works of fine art. Once offered as tributes to ancient rulers, vases continue to be gifted to heads of state today. Over time, decorative porcelain vases have become family heirlooms to be displayed prominently in our homes — loved pieces treasured from generation to generation.

The functional value of vases is well known. They were traditionally utilized as vessels for carrying dry goods or liquids, so some have handles and feature an opening at the top (where they flare back out). While artists have explored wildly sculptural alternatives over time, the most conventional vase shape is characterized by a bulbous base and a body with shoulders where the form curves inward.

Owing to their intrinsic functionality, vases are quite possibly versatile in ways few other art forms can match. They’re typically taller than they are wide. Some have a neck that offers height and is ideal for the stems of cut flowers. To pair with your mid-century modern decor, the right vase will be an elegant receptacle for leafy snake plants on your teak dining table, or, in the case of welcoming guests on your doorstep, a large ceramic floor vase for long tree branches or sticks — perhaps one crafted in the Art Nouveau style — works wonders.

Interior designers include vases of every type, size and style in their projects — be the canvas indoors or outdoors — often introducing a splash of color and a range of textures to an entryway or merely calling attention to nature’s asymmetries by bringing more organically shaped decorative objects into a home.

On 1stDibs, you can browse our collection of vases by material, including ceramic, glass, porcelain and more. Sizes range from tiny bud vases to massive statement pieces and every size in between.

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