Vases

Brown glazed ceramic amphora vase, with striking asymmetrical two handles design, fabricated in the early 1900s.

A pair of large antique Japanese, late Meiji era, enamel copper vases. The urn shaped vases are adorned with polychrome images of birds in blossoming flowers against a bright turquoi...

This French Art Nouveau pink opaline glass vase, hand-blown and decorated circa 1896, exemplifies the era’s love of organic forms and intricate craftsmanship. Of baluster form, the v...

An antique Japanese Meiji Era brass and enamel vase. Circa: early 20th century. The baluster form vase is enameled with a polychrome image of an...

Stamped Lucien Levy Dhurmer for Clement Massier. Literature: Coleman B., The Best of British Arts & Crafts, Atglen, 2004, p.213 Note: We highly recommend shipping through 1stDibs f...

2 Vases WMF Signs: WMF G: Introduces on the 1 st June 1910, in the interests of improved legibility, especially of the very small marks. The company´s choice of an ostrich as a tr...

The Legras vases, from around 1900, feature white glass overlaid with violet and green, etched with delicate wisteria motifs. Signed by the renowned French glassmaker Legras, these v...

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A French Art Nouveau wheel-carved cameo glass vase by Daum, featuring a decoration of blue flowers and light blue and grey stems and leaves on an opa...

Attributed to Namikawa Yasuyuki, 1845 to 1927, a rare antique Japanese, late Meiji era, enamel vase. The vase has an urn shaped body and a wide fluted neck. The body of the vase is a...

Meiji Period Fukagawa Gilded Porcelain Vase with Wave Ground and Enameled Medallions, Japan, Circa 1900 A superb Meiji-period Japanese porcelain vase attributed to the esteemed Fuka...

Austrian Art Nouveau Three Rooster Diminutive Vase with Talon Legs Austria, Circa 1890s, Franz Bergmann School, Unmarked This rare and striking Art Nouveau vase exemplifies the o...

A rare high quality large antique Japanese, late Meiji period, Silver wire and enamel over copper vase. The amphora shaped vase has a narrow fluted neck. The ware is enameled with a ...

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...

Late 19th/Early 20th c., large Japanese Meiji bronze floor urn. The principal decoration on both sides of the vase is rendered in beautiful and strong relief. One side depicts birds, possibly skylarks, in flight and on flowering cherry blossom branches. The opposite side depicts herons wading and alighting on a flowering tree. the upper and lower portions of urn are decorated with repeating arched lozenges detailed with scrolls and flora. The urn is adorned with foo dog handles, unmarked. This is an impressive and beautiful bronze urn. In bronze-working, Meiji period craftsmen were newly empowered to attempt distinctive, innovative, and complex pieces. Makers were influenced less by the West than by China, which had had a relationship with Japan stretching back thousands of years, far further than Japan’s recent association with Western powers. Artistry in bronze-work reached new heights in the Meiji period, as a number of metalworking schools developed, creating intricate pieces including vases, sculptures...

Beautiful antique Murano hand blown millefiori flower mosaic Italian art glass decorative double handle cabinet vase. Documented to the Fratelli Toso Company, circa 1900-1920. The va...

This is an old, large, paper-backed pottery made in Japan. It was made during the Meiji period (1860s-1900s) and was a utilitarian item used to store and transport tea leaves. The mo...

Extraordinary pair of vases, in the Secession style, originals from the Art Nouveau period, made around 1910 by the famous Villeroy and Boch factory, Dresden, Germany. The vases eac...

Art Nouveau Ceramic Planter or Vase circa 1910 Spectacular jardinière or centerpiece with relief flowers and leaves on the two sides

Theodor Hermann Schmuz-Baudiss for Konigliche Porzellan-Manufaktur. This vase features a geometric thistle at the neck and variations of animals at the shoulders, a hawk and a lion/...

A Large and Impressive 19th Century Pair of Japanese Meiji Period Export Blue-Celeste, White and Porcelain Vases. The ornately decorated bottle-shaped celadon vases, each with feline decorations amongst tree-branches and parcel-gilt and ruby-red painted flowers. The bottom of one signed in Japanese “Dai...

A high quality Japanese, Meiji era, cloisonne enamel and silver wire vase. The vase has an amphora shaped body and a narrow neck. The ware is enameled with a polychrome image of blos...

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...

A vintage Japanese urn shaped enamel over copper vase. The exterior of the vase is adorned with hand enameled panels depicting butterflies, cranes...

Model #3771 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...

An antique Japanese copper vase with polychrome ginbari cloisonne enamel decor. Late Meiji period, Squat round shape, long neck and decorative side handles. Green body with red and y...

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...

Model #3356 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...

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...

An exquisite Ando Jubei wireless cloisonné vase. In his signature green enamel, portraying an intricate arabesque design of a blooming clematis vine under the glaze. On Musen-jippo b...

Important vase for museum display from the full Art Nouveau period. A large handled vase made of Bohemian glass with metal mount decoration in relief and chiselled in Art Nouveau sty...

A fine and stunning Art Nouveau German pair of hand painted art pottery vases with floral designs made by the renowned manufactory of Royal Bonn and dating from around 1900. Royal B...

A Loetz Cobalt Papillon Art Glass and Pewter Art Nouveau Vase. Circa 1900 The shapely design with flared base having four evenly spaced indentations...

Purple ceramic cachepot Perfect condiction.

Art Nouveau Daum Nancy Acid Etched, Cameo & Enamel Glass Vase  France, circa 1900s An exquisite Art Nouveau glass vase from Daum Nancy Glasswor...

Brilliant Handmade Majolica Hand-glazed Art Nouveau planter jardinière, 1920. Stamp Imperiale Royale, WESSEL Handmade and hand-glazed in brilliant details. Made in Germany Art Nouv...

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...

Porcelain vase white porcelain with glossy glaze, designed by Siegmund Schütz in 1951.

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 ...

"Boy with Sledge and Dog" is carved wooden brush pot with hand painting in oils in post - impressionist manner performed by a famous master: Elisaveta Merkuryevna Bem or Boehm or Böhm (1843–1914). Very beautiful vase that will decorate any interior. Antique wooden vases...

Brilliant handmade hand-glazed Art Nouveau Soliflore Vase, 1930. Handmade and hand-glazed in brilliant colored details. Made in Belgium Art Nouveau period 1930 fine quality. The pi...

French Art Nouveau green cameo glass vase cut with leafy branch relief design. Signed: Daum Nancy. The Daum family worked at the beginning of Art Nouveau and creators of one of ...

Rare 3 Piece Set of Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Silver Wire Vases with Wisteria and Birds antique Japanese copper vases with silver wire cloisonne...

An antique Japanese copper vase with polychrome cloisonne enamel decor. Late Meiji period, attributed to Hayashi Elongated baluster shape. Intricate cherry blossom and bird motif aga...

A beautiful French enameled glass vase from the Art Nouveau period, circa 1930. Intricately detailed work is by François-Théodore Legras. T...

French faience vase from Rouen manufactures. Features hand painted floral decor in a blue, orange, white and yellow and green palette Good antique condition, apparent cracks on the i...

This petite Art Nouveau vase, designed by François-Théodore Legras and produced by Verrerie Legras, features a rounded form with a fluted organic opening, evoking a blossoming strawb...

Exceptional set of two vases, so-called basket vases, made from 1910 - 20, by the famous Amphora factory in Bohemia. The vases have a round base and taper towards the top. They have...

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Beautiful antique Murano hand blown blue, green and white Millefiori Murrina flower mosaic Italian art glass decorative vase. Documented to the Fratelli Toso Company, circa 1900-1920...

A stunning and monumental example of Kayserzinn pewter, an exceptional piece for the collector. This antique art nouveau Jugendstil pewter tankard is stamped "Kayserzinn 4009" and wa...

These charming round vases are crafted from yellowish earthenware and feature a polychrome, hand-painted design with ornate designs and figurative pieces with rich, raised gold embel...

Vase Sign: Muller Freres Luneville acid worked Muller Feres The heart of the company was formed by five brothers (Henri, Desire, Eugene, Pierre, Victor) from a glass making family wh...

A Palace Size Japanese Meiji Period (1868-1912) Blue and White Vase with Phoenix Decoration. This vase is absolutely beautiful with an incredible array of hand-painted blue decoratio...

A very fine and elegant Hungarian porcelain twin handled vase with floral reticulated designs and contrasting blue glazed panelling by renowned maker Zsolnay and dating from around 1...

A high quality Japanese, Meiji era, Cloisonné enamel and silver wire vase. The vase has an amphora shaped body and a narrow neck. The ware is enameled with a polychrome image of blos...

A Monumental Japanese Kutani porcelain vase, Meiji/Taisho Period, Signed Akiyama sei. The main body is all hand-painted with wonderful ...

Model #3771 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...

A very stylish and elegant Hungarian porcelain vase hand painted with Islamic influence floral designs by renowned maker Zsolnay and dating from...

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...