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Vases For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1910s
Glass Vase with Spiral Pattern by Vicke Lindstrand for Kosta, Sweden
Located in Goteborg, SE
When Vicke Lindstrand came back to the glass in 1950s after a decade as artistic leader at the ceramic factory Upsala-Ekeby, he exploded in a creative burst of new shapes and pattern...
Category
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Vinicio Vianello Rare pair of Murano Glass Candle Holders for HOME, Italy 1950s
Located in Milan, IT
Rare pair of Blue and Green Vinicio Vianello Murano Glass Candle Holders for HOME, Italy 1950s
Original Vinicio Vianello & C label
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Pucci Spider Vase with Two Candle Holders
Located in Munich, DE
Gorgeous painted ceramic vase plus two candle holders with gold trimmings in relief in spider form by Pucci. The Company “Ceramiche Pucci”, founded by Ing. Domenico Pucci in 1947 in ...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Jugend Vase in Glazed Ceramic by Michael Andersen, 1920s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Small and early Danish Pottery vase with subtle Art Nouveau/Jugend styling and shape. Unusual caramel colored glazes. Designed by Michael Andersen...
Category
1910s Danish Jugendstil Vintage Vases
Materials
Ceramic
1950s by Gilbert Portanier Vallauris France Glazed Ceramic Vase
Located in Brescia, IT
Glazed ceramic
Excellent condition.
"Portanier" signed.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Aldo Londi Lava Glazed Ceramic Pottery Vase for Bitossi / Raymor
By Bitossi, Aldo Londi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Aldo Londi Lava Glazed Ceramic Pottery Vase for Bitossi / Raymor
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Val Saint Lambert, Label Sculpted Crystal Vase with Green Core, Belgium
Located in Verviers, BE
Val Saint Lambert, Label sculpted crystal vase with Green core, Belgium.
Heavy Val Saint Lambert crystal vase catalogued in the 1950s.
The cen...
Category
1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Crystal
Val Saint Lambert Art Deco Green Crystal Vase Cut-to-Clear, 1950s
Located in Verviers, BE
Val Saint Lambert green crystal vase cut-to-clear, 1950s.
by Val Saint-Lambert.
Beautiful Val Saint-Lambert hexagonal crystal vases, handcut-to-clear, the glass is thick, deeply ...
Category
1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Crystal
Antique Awaji Pottery Arts & Crafts Green Organic Nouveau Monochrome Vase
Located in Wilton, CT
Antique Awaji pottery vase in terrific swirled petal form in green monochrome glaze. Measures: 11 1/2" high, 5" diameter. Unmarked. Excellent condition.
Category
1910s Japanese Art Nouveau Vintage Vases
Materials
Pottery
Lee Rosen, Vase, Ceramic, USA, 1950s
Located in High Point, NC
A hand-painted blue, beige brown and black vase designed by Lee Rosen and produced by Design-Technics, USA, c. 1950s.
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Vicke Lindstrand 'Colora' series for Kosta, Modernist Lapis and Cobalt Blue Vase
Located in Frome, GB
This sleek work of Scandinavian Modern art glass is by Vicke Lindstrand (b. 1904 - d. 1983). Lindstrand is considered one of the most influential 20th-century glass artists and a gla...
Category
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Large Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Vase, 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Royal Copenhagen
Large Royal Copenhagen porcelain vase in terra cotta and grey crackle glaze with gold decor.
With marks underneath, Denmark, 1950s
Measures: 9.5 height x 8.5 diam...
Category
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Midcentury Stoneware Vase by Berndt Friberg, Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1950s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Beautiful stoneware vase by Berndt Friberg, in an elegant, cylinder form. Glazed warm yellow hare’s fur glaze.
Berndt Friberg was a Swedish ceramicist, renowned for his stoneware va...
Category
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Daum Nancy france 50's small green bubble glass vase
By Daum
Located in Ternay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Small French glass vase from the 1940s by Daum De Nancy. Entirely in thick bubbled and blown green glass. High-quality craftsmanship. Very fine vintage condition, with slight traces ...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Carl-Harry Stålhane, Rörstrand, Midcentury Green Speckled Vintage Ceramic Vase
Located in Stockholm, SE
Midcentury Swedish vase from Rörstrand, designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane. The vase is in very good condition except from some minor white marks in the glaze from the production why it...
Category
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Arts & Crafts Crystalline Cerulean Vase by Adelaide Alsop Robineau
Located in Chicago, US
Note: We highly recommend shipping through 1stDibs for its cost effectiveness, full insurance coverage, and reliable handling. While standard parcel services are an option, the default quote does not include packing and insurance. 1stDibs shipping provides a level of value, protection, and care that aligns with our commitment to safeguarding historic artworks and providing excellent client service.
“A Robineau vase is a true work of art, unique in conception and perfect in execution, for every piece that left this studio was a labor of love.” – Ethel Brand Wise, The American Magazine of Art, 1929
Adelaide Alsop Robineau was a pioneer in American studio ceramics and excelled as an innovator in pottery both technically and aesthetically. As a young woman of high society in the late Victorian era, she gained early accolades as a skilled watercolorist and china painter and taught for a time at St. Mary’s Hall in Minnesota. In 1899, she married Samuel E. Robineau, a French gentleman and collector of Chinese ceramics. He was deeply intrigued by her talent and steadfastly supported and encouraged her throughout her career. The couple collaborated to produce a popular and influential monthly journal together, Keramic Studio, and went on to build a studio on their property in Syracuse, New York, which they named Four Winds. Robineau would also go on to teach for many years at Syracuse University while creating her own work and raising three children.
Early in her career, she studied at Alfred University under Charles Binns, who is widely considered to be the progenitor of contemporary studio ceramics in America. His program established a shift in the craft of ceramics as an academic pursuit, rather than one of apprenticeship. Pottery throwers and the artists who decorated the wares traditionally inhabited separate roles in ceramic manufacture, a practice common in Europe. Binns’ philosophy merged the two, such that the potter had total agency of the final product. This marked a historic divergence in the creation of art pottery – one that Adelaide Robineau...
Category
1910s American Arts and Crafts Vintage Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Midcentury Collection of Art Glass Vases by Vicke Lindstrand for Kosta Sweden
Located in Hillringsberg, SE
Collection of 5 art glass vases designed by Vicke Lindstrand for Kosta Sweden. They have swirl lines of purple and black inside of the glass.
Nice condition with some scratches.
...
Category
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Glass Vase Transparent Glass Decor of Horses, Round Globe, Glimma Sweden
By Edvin Ollers
Located in Stockholm, SE
A stunning round globe vase in glass designed by Edvin Ollers at Glimma Glass works in the 1950s. It is 18 cm in diameter and about 18 cm high. The vase is...
Category
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Glass
Tall Mid-Century German Pottery Ceramic Floor Vase, vintage 1950s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
An amazing ceramic Mid-Century Modern floor vase made in Germany, circa 1950s. This is a heavy floor vase. Vase is in very good condition with no chips, cracks, or flea bites. Nice c...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Val Saint Lambert, Sculpted Crystal Core Vase , Belgium
Located in Verviers, BE
Val Saint Lambert, Sculpted Crystal core Vase , Belgium.
Heavy Val Saint Lambert crystal vase catalogued in the 1950s.
The central amethyst color (a traditional favorite for VSL) h...
Category
1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Crystal
1912 René Lalique - Vase Six Figurines Glass With Sepia Patina
By René Lalique
Located in Boulogne Billancourt, FR
Vase “Six Figurines” made in cleat glass with sepia patina by René Lalique in 1912.
Engraved signature signature on bottom and molded signature near the feet of one maid.
Perfect ...
Category
1910s French Art Deco Vintage Vases
Materials
Blown Glass
Murano hollow glass vase in the style of Seguso, 1950s
By Seguso
Located in Bastia Umbra, IT
Murano hollow glass vase in the style of Seguso, Made in Italy, 1950s.
Murano rainbow glass "excavation" vase reproduction of Etruscan wax vases.
The price of shipping is for the ...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Glass, Murano Glass
Midcentury Stoneware Vase by Berndt Friberg, Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1950s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Beautiful miniature stoneware vase by Berndt Friberg, in compact, smooth form. Dark brown hare’s fur glaze.
Berndt Friberg was a Swedish ceramicist, renowned for his stoneware vases...
Category
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Berndt Friberg, Vase, Stoneware, Sweden, 1950s
Located in High Point, NC
A matte green-glazed stoneware vase designed by Berndt Friberg and produced by Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1950s.
Category
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Val Saint Lambert, Signed Sculpted Crystal Vase with Amethyst Core, Belgium
Located in Verviers, BE
Val Saint Lambert,Signed sculpted crystal vase with amethyst core, Belgium.
Heavy Val Saint Lambert crystal vase catalogued in the 1950s.
The central amethyst color (a traditional f...
Category
1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Crystal
Libera Murano glass gray 1950 vase signed.
Located in Rio De Janeiro, RJ
Incredible LIBERO Murano glass gray 1950 vase.
Category
1950s Italian International Style Vintage Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Fine Quality Japanese Meiji Period Bronze Vase - Antique, c.1915
Located in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Antique Japanese Meiji Period Bronze Vase - Exquisite Crane Depiction!
This exceptional bronze vase from the Meiji period features a stunning depiction of cranes, symbolizing longev...
Category
1910s Vintage Vases
Materials
Bronze
1950s VASE scheurich model 239-30 drip glaze and colorful abstract decor
Located in Mannheim, DE
West german mid century ceramic vase manufactured by Scheurich Keramik in the late 1950s. White drip glaze on russet brown glaze, combined with stripe and cube decor in yellow, red a...
Category
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Italian Murano Glass Vase with Gold Inclusion by Barovier & Toso, circa 1950
By Barovier
Located in London, GB
A fine Italian Murano glass vase with Gold Inclusion by Barovier & Toso, circa 1950.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Vintage Art Glass Vase by Vicke Lindstrand for Kosta 1950s
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Vintage Art Glass Vase by Vicke Lindstrand for Kosta 1950s
A vintage art glass vase designed by Vicke Lindstrand and manufactured by Kosta Glassworks ca. 1950s. Clear glass with a light blue overlay which is asymetrical drawn to the top as decoration and a joined massive clear glass base. The vase is signed with 'LH 1194' and a retailer sticker on the base. Very good condition.
Measures:
Height: 12.99" (33 cm)
Diameter: 3.15" (8 cm)
Vicke Lindstrand (1904 - 1983) is considered one of the pioneers of the Swedish glass art scene. He also showed his feel for contemporary trends as a ceramic artist and painter. He celebrated his first international successes at the World Exhibition in Stockholm 1930. Vicke Lindstrand´s design works were part of the art competitions at the Summer Olympics in 1932 and 1936. He worked as a trend-setting designer for Orrefors and Kosta. In his final decade Vicke Lindstrand worked together with Hanne Dreutler and Arthur Zirrnsack at Studio Glashyttan in Ahus.
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Category
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Flavio Poli Vase Murano Glass 1955 Italy
By Flavio Poli
Located in Milano, IT
Flavio Poli.
Category
1950s Italian Other Vintage Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Original Hand-Painted Cherry Blossom Vase by Ludwig Moser
Located in Vienna, AT
Original intricately hand-painted vase by Moser Glassworks from ca. 1910-1920. Designed by renowned Karlovy Vary based designer Ludwig Moser it features a...
Category
1910s Austrian Art Nouveau Vintage Vases
Materials
Glass
Wilhelm Kåge, sculptural vase "Surrea", Gustavsberg Studio, Swedish Modern
Located in Stockholm, SE
Rare, beautifully sculptural stoneware vase by Wilhelm Kåge for Gustavsberg Studio. Swedish Modern, 1950s.
This is a timeless decorative beauty. In good condition, smaller scratche...
Category
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Vase with Sgraffito and Butterflies. Sweden, 1950s
Located in Grythyttan, SE
Mid-Century Modern Hand-Sculpted Stoneware Vase with Sgraffito Technique and Butterflies, Sweden 1950s
Crafted in the 1950s, this hand-sculpted and hand-decorated stoneware vase ha...
Category
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Pair of Arthur Percy Wall Vases Gefle Sweden White Stoneware Polka Dot 1940s
By Arthur Percy, Gefle
Located in Basel, BS
Rare pair of small wall hung vases designed by the artist and designer Arthur Percy in a cream white glaze with golden polka dots, made by Gefle porcelain factory in Sweden, beween 1...
Category
1950s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Midcentury Modern Sculptural Vase Rörstrand by Gunnar Nylund, Sweden, 1950s
Located in Hillringsberg, SE
Wonderfully crafted stoneware vase by Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand 1950s with exceptional yellow green, brown hare fur glaze.
Good vintage condition with.
Dimensions: Height 25 cm ...
Category
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Ceramic Bamboo Wall Pocket Vase in Turquoise
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Mid-Century Modern wall pocket vase with bamboo cluster design. Handmade ceramic pottery features a turquoise glaze finish. The vase has one opening along ...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Flavio Poli Vase Murano Glass, 1955, Italy
By Flavio Poli
Located in Milano, IT
Flavio Poli vase Murano glass, 1955, Italy.
Category
1950s Italian Other Vintage Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Ercole Barovier Toso Murano 1956 Opal Chalcedony Italian Art Glass Flower Vase
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful and rare, vintage Murano hand blown opalescent and silver flecks Italian art glass flower vase. Documented to designer Ercole Barovier, for the Barovier and Toso company, c...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Opaline Glass, Glass
Midcentury Modern Pair of Sven Palmqvist Orrefors Heavy Crystal Vases Clear Blue
By Orrefors
Located in Hillringsberg, SE
Orrefors heavy dropped formed blue vase and one large rounded heavy vase designed by Sven Palmqvist.
Wonderful glass with exceptional blue color that collaborates with the clear gl...
Category
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Art Glass
White Pulegoso Murano Glass Vase 1950s Seguso Italian Design
Located in Palermo, Sicily
White Pulegoso Murano glass vase 1950s Seguso Italian design.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Midcentury Ceramic Studio Vase Walter Bosse
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
Rare studio work vase with a raw unglazed surface decorated with different funghi/mushrooms and ferns. The rim of the vase as and bottom are also glazed. Unattributed to Austrian des...
Category
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Ceramic
French Mid Century Stoneware Bottle Vase in the style of Georges Jouve, 1950s
Located in Stockholm, SE
French mid century decorative red stoneware / ceramic vase in a warm red color and in style of Georges Jouve / Ruelland produced in the 1950s.
In good original condition.
Dimensio...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Vintage Set of Vase and Two Ashtrays in Porcelain by Zsolnay, Hungary, 1950s
By Zsolnay
Located in Bastogne, BE
Lovely vintage Zsolnay (since 1858) porcelain set vase and two lady’s ashtrays with floral gold accents, Hungary, 1950s.
Gorgeous ivory porcelain with ...
Category
1950s Hungarian Vintage Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Green Vicke Lindstrand Ceramic Vase "638" Upsala Ekeby, 1950's
Located in Grythyttan, SE
Very rare green Vicke Lindstrand ceramic vase no 638 produced by Upsala Ekeby during 1951-52.
Inscribed "EKEBY 638" and the initials "VL" at...
Category
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Earthenware
Pink ‘Apothecary’ Jar with Lid by Paolo Venini
By Paolo Venini
Located in London, England
Paolo Venini ‘Apothecary’ jar with lid - Pink
Item description: Venini
DESIGNER: Venini
MANUFACTURER Venini
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Italy
DESIGN PERIOD: 1959
CONDITION: Excellent
MAT...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Vases
Materials
Glass
Bud Vase by Raymor
By Raymor
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
This is one of the nicest Raymor vase's I've found and can find online. Wonderful accentuated neck and pillow form vase with abstract decoration inside windows on sides of vase.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Art Nouveau Cameo Vase With Violet Decor, Daum Nancy, France, ca 1910-1915
By Daum
Located in Vienna, AT
Delicate baluster vase with bulbous body on round, offset stand with long, slender neck widening slightly to flared rim, colourless glass with flaky white and reddish powdered enamel...
Category
1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Vases
Materials
Glass
Midcentury Kosta, Sweden Stripped Modern Glass Vase by Vicke Lindstrand, 1956
Located in Miami, FL
Striped Mid-Century Modern engraved mouth blown clear glass vase by Vicke Lindstrand, 1904-1983 Sweden, for Kosta in 1956.
In a cylindrical shape with augmented middle and a slanted...
Category
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Blown Glass
Scandinavian Modern Cut Crystal Vase, 1950s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A cut crystal torpedo shaped vase presumably from either Kosta Boda or Orrefors. It features diffrent techniques most prominent the mix of vertical ribbings and geometric patterns. I...
Category
1950s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Crystal
Barovier e Toso Murano Glass Mid-Century Modern Vase, 1950s
Located in Miami, FL
Large transparent turquoise blue green handmade Murano glass vase.
Made with the Bullicante technique featuring air bubbles inside the glass thickness and the Aventurina technique fe...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass
Fine Daum Nancy Glass Perfume Bottle France, circa 1910
By Daum
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Property of A Private Collector
Fine Daum Nancy Glass Perfume Bottle
France, circa 1910
The diamond shaped bottle, decorated with a full blown iris...
Category
1910s Vintage Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Vase 1950, Sing 'Querandi, Churba 4139/72' (Blown inside a tree trunk)
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Vase
Blown inside a tree trunk
Querandi
1950 to 1954
Otto Ullmann assumes the technical direction of the Bohemia Glass Argentina SRL glass factory in Sao Tome after his emigration to...
Category
1950s Argentine Space Age Vintage Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Dino Martens "Olaf" Model 3122
By Dino Martens
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Dino Martens Olaf vase in the Oriente Technique.
This series was first presented at the Biennial of 1952.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Paul Kedelv for Flygsfors, Sweden. Two Coquille Fantasia art glass vases.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Paul Kedelv for Flygsfors, Sweden. Two Coquille Fantasia art glass vases. Large and small. Pink, purple, and clear glass. Handmade.
Swedish design.
1950s.
In perfect condition.
Both ...
Category
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Val Saint Lambert Crystal Vase Cut to Clear Belgium 1950s
Located in Verviers, BE
Val Saint Lambert crystal vase cut to clear,
Beautiful Val Saint Lambert circular crystal vase, hand-cut-to-clear,
the glass is thick, deeply and evenly cut,
Origin: Belgium in exc...
Category
1950s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Vases
Materials
Crystal
Mette Doller, Vase, Stoneware, Sweden, 1950s
Located in High Point, NC
A hand-painted white and blue stoneware vase designed by Mette Doller and produced by Andersson & Johansson, Höganäs, Sweden, c. 1950s.
Category
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Kage Verk Stad Gustavsberg Blue Glazed Fish Vase, circa 1950
By Gustavsberg
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine vintage blue glazed Swedish Gustavsberg stoneware vase moulded in relief with a large fish designed by Wilhelm Kage. The vase has impressed KAPA Kage Verk Stad to the base alo...
Category
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Vases
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
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.