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Vases For Sale
Period: Early 1900s
Color:  Brown
Set of large Iridescent Jugendstil Wilhelm Kralik Sohn Vases
Located in Hellouw, NL
An impressive set of Kralik vases with a bottle shape and marbled designs with an opalescent colors, rounded base, tall slender neck with acup shaped top. The iridescent glass vases are decorated with brown/red and white swirled designs originating from the bottom of the vase. The vases belong to the same series by Wilhelm Kralik...
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Early 1900s Czech Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Glass

Grès de Rambervillers, Art Nouveau Glazed Ceramic Vase, France, circa 1905
Located in New York, NY
Stamped: GRE`S DE RAMBERVILLERS Rambervillers is a city in Alsace-Lorraine, in eastern France, where in the late 19th century Alphonse Cyte're esta...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Ceramic

LC Tiffany Green Opal & Hooked Feather Art Glass Footed Favrile Vase, circa 1901
Located in Cathedral City, CA
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...
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Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Art Glass

Iridescent Art Nouveau Glass Snake Vase by Johann Loetz Witwe
Located in Chicago, US
Model $21008 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. Und...
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Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Art Glass

Iridescent Art Nouveau Vase with Crabs and Seaweed by Clement Massier
Located in Chicago, US
An encounter with Massier’s luster-glazed ceramics is an embarkation on an acid-colored trip, the sort of exploration which inspires deep reflection and requires transparency. Clemen...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Stoneware

Pair of Turquoise Amphorae Attributed to Sevres
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Pair of turquoise amphorae attributed to Sevres Porcelain and gilt bronzes Origin France circa 1900 Handles with male goats Empire style. The Napoleon III style had its heyday during...
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Early 1900s French Napoleon III Antique Vases

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Porcelain

Muller Freres Luneville Cameo Landscape vase 1900
Located in Dallas, TX
A sumptuous art nouveau French cameo lake landscape acid etched cameo vase with applied handles. Sunrise or sunset with a yellow orange background with engraved trees, bushes and mou...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Art Glass

Loetz Art Nouveau Glass Vase Bronze Phenomenon Genre 29, Austria-Hungary, C 1900
Located in Vienna, AT
Finest Bohemian Art Nouveau Glass Vase: In shape blown low, cambered body on a large, round floor plan, triple indented wall with a mouth rim formed into a three-pass shape, polished...
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Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Glass

Unusual Vase, Muller Fres Luneville, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Vase Muller Fres 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 who traine...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Art Glass

Doulton Lambeth Pair Art Nouveau Vases by Ethel Beard & Florrie Jones
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A delightful and stylish pair Art Nouveau Doulton Lambeth twin handled vases with stylized floral designs by artists Ethel Beard and Florrie Jones and dating from around 1905. The st...
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Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Stoneware

Louis Comfort Tiffany Gold Favrile Art Glass Footed Floriform Vase, LCT - 1907
Located in Cathedral City, CA
Offering this monumental Louis Comfort Tiffany gold Favrile iridescent art glass footed floriform vase. This large vase features a tapered, ribbed...
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Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Art Glass

Vase, Sign: Muller Fres Luneville, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Vase Sign: Muller Fres 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 who ...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Art Glass

Inusual Vase, Sign: Muller Freres Luneville, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
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...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Art Glass

Inusual Vase, Sign: Muller Freres Luneville, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
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...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Art Glass

Pair Massive Art Nouveau Frederique Goldscheider Vases with Sirens or Mermaids
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Very rare pair of massive matching Art Nouveau terra cotta vases by Friedrich Goldscheider of Vienna, featuring sensual Siren or Mermaid figures emerging from rippled waters C. 1900....
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Vases

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Terracotta

Large Italian Alabaster Vase on Stand
Located in London, GB
This large and impressive vase was carved in Italy in circa 1900 from a veined grey alabaster. The vase is shaped like stylised loutrophoros-amphora vessel with an ovoid body and elo...
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Early 1900s Italian Rococo Antique Vases

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Alabaster

Loetz Glatt Bronze Three Handled Glass Vase
Located in Dallas, TX
Loetz Three Handle iridescent glass vase in the Glatt Bronze design, handles applied with raspberry prints. Height: 6.5 Inches. Diameter: 6 Inches Condition; Very good Johann Loetz W...
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Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Art Glass

Antique French Art Nouveau Fire Polished Cameo Glass Emile Gallé Stem Vase, 1900
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique French Art Nouveau Emille Galle cameo glass vase, circa 1900. The stem vase of a tapering conical form and finely wheel carved and acid etc...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Glass

Big Vase, Sign: Fabrication Francaise, Made in France, Paris, 1900, A. Barsotti
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Signs: André Barsotti / Fabrication Francaise, Made in France, Paris We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and Vintage styles since 1982.If you have any questio...
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Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Metal

Art Nouveau Stoneware Vitis Vase by Edmond Lachenal and Émile Decoeur
Located in Chicago, US
The finest examples of vases produced in collaboration between Edmond Lachenal and Emile Decoeur date from 1901-1904. This vase, with the word “original” marked on its underside, ind...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Stoneware

Big Vase , German, 1900 in Silver, Art Nouveau
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Signs: Hugo Leven Hugo Leven studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule and then at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. For some time he worked in his father Louis Leven's studio, had numerous contac...
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Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Metal

Emile Galle Hydrangea Cameo Covered Dish
Located in Dallas, TX
Gallé Cameo glass wheel carved and acid etched hydrangeas covered box, circa 1910. Art Nouveau. Marks: (star) Gallé (1904-1907) Height: 3 Inches, diameter 5.75 inches (7.4 x 14.6 cm) Condition: very good with no damage or repairs. Could use a good cleaning. This is dedicated to providing an exclusive curated collection of Fine Arts, Paintings, Bronzes, Asian treasures, Art Glass and Antiques. Our inventory represents time-tested investment quality items with everlasting decorative beauty. We look forward to your business and appreciate any reasonable offers. All of our curated items...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Art Glass

Rare Small Art Nouveau Glass Vase, 1900, Josef Riedel, Polaun
Located in Berlin, BE
Very beautiful, original art nouveau glass vase. From Josef Riedel, Polaun. From a private art nouveau collection. Well preserved, with light gold rubbing on the top rim. Hei...
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Early 1900s Czech Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Glass

Art Nouveau Asymmetrical Vase by Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat
Located in Chicago, US
Much fuss is made about Dalpayrat’s signature red, but what many have not realized is that “Dalpayrat Red” refers not simply to a vivid red color glaze but just as often to a nuanced appearance of color resulting from the artist’s technical expertise navigating a complex play of minerals and various firing temperatures. Mossy greens, amber and chestnut tones dance together over Dalpayrat’s blood red base. The result is just as surprisingly modern as the geometric planes forming this asymmetrical vase...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Stoneware

Art Nouveau Gourd Vase with Brass Mount by Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat & Marcel Bing
By Marcel Bing, Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat
Located in Chicago, US
PIERRE-ADRIEN DALPAYRAT (1844-1910) After working nearly half his life as an itinerant faience painter and directing production for commercial porcelain manufacturers, Dalpayrat’s ey...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Brass

Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Vase With Daffodil Decor, France, Circa 1904
Located in Vienna, AT
Baluster-shaped vase body on a separate, round base, conically widening walls, on rounded shoulders set short, narrow neck with slightly flared mouth rim, colorless glass with flaky ...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Glass

Pair of Limoges Enameled "Marquis and Marquise" Vases, France, circa 1900
Located in PARIS, FR
Charming pair of tight neck vases made in Limoges enamel on copper decors of galante scenes characters, the Marquis and Marquise.
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Early 1900s French Belle Époque Antique Vases

Materials

Copper, Enamel

Ludwig Vierthaler German Jugendstil Lizard & Dragonfly Repousse Copper Vase
Located in New York, NY
German Jugendstil monumental vase designed by Ludwig Karl Maria Vierthaler and made of repousse copper with a brass rim. The piece has a large lizard on the front as well as a dragon...
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Early 1900s German Jugendstil Antique Vases

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Copper, Brass

Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Vase, Seascape Decor, France, circa 1904
Located in Vienna, AT
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...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Glass

Large Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Vase, Umbellifers Decor, France, circa 1904
Located in Vienna, AT
Vase with a large, round stand, widening like a bulge and then conically narrowing to a narrow opening with a flared rim, colorless glass with pink and light green colored powder inc...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Glass

Legras Hand-Painted Decoration Glass Vase, 1900-1914
Located in Verviers, BE
Legras Hand-painted Decoration Glass Vase, Date: 1900-1914 Period: Early 20th century Origin: St. Denis, France Color: Enameled with magenta crimson hues on a peach ground Bo...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Glass, Art Glass

Monumental 24’ Emile Galle Four Color Cameo Vase
Located in Dallas, TX
Large and finely carved Four color Gallé Cameo glass floral floor vase, circa 1910, art Nouveau. Marks: Gallé Measures: Height: 24.35 inches (62 cm) Diameter: 9.75 inches Condition: Very good with no damage or repairs. AVANTIQUES is dedicated to providing an exclusive curated collection of Fine Arts, Paintings, Bronzes, Asian treasures, Art Glass and Antiques. Our inventory represents time-tested investment quality items with everlasting decorative beauty. We look forward to your business and appreciate any reasonable offers. All of our curated items are vetted and guaranteed authentic and as described. Avantiques only deals in original antiques and never reproductions. We stand behind our treasures with a full money back return policy if the items are not as described. Please also consider Avantiques eclectic...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Art Glass

Daum Nancy Huge Vase Art Nouveau France Lorraine Made in circa 1906
By Daum
Located in Tilburg, NL
Daum Nancy huge vase Art Nouveau France Lorraine Made in circa 1906. Stunningly manufactured casing glass with brownish, orange, yellow powder meltings. Signed: Daum Nancy Signature with Cross of Lorraine existing. Daum Nancy Cross...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Art Glass, Blown Glass

Ukrainian Terracotta Cooking Pots
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Turn of the century Ukrainian terracotta pottery cooking pots with utilitarian wire netting details. Sold individually. Whether used as a vase for the dis...
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Early 1900s Ukrainian Antique Vases

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Terracotta

Flemish Studio Pottery Art Nouveau Drip Glazed Earthenware Vase 1900s Folk Art
Located in Sherborne, Dorset
This tall and very stylish conical Art Nouveau vase is a beautiful example of Flemish pottery or ‘Poterie Flamande’ from Torhout dating from the 1900s....
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Early 1900s Belgian Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Pottery, Earthenware

Bohemian Jugendstil Art Nouveau Austrian Secessionist Glass Copper Overlay Vase
Located in Sherborne, Dorset
This is a large hand blown emerald green opaque glass vase with applied open work copper overlay decoration, which is likely to have been manufactured i...
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Early 1900s Austrian Jugendstil Antique Vases

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Copper

1900s Pair of Art Nouveau Ceramic Neapolitan Vases
Located in Catania, Sicilia
Two rare Art Nouveau ceramic vases made in Italy in 1900. They depicting two children playing. Signs of use and age visible on the photos.
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Early 1900s Italian Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Ceramic

Christian Désiré Internally Decorated Acid Etched Cameo Glass Vase
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Christian Désiré (1846-1907) (Désiré Johann Baptist Christian) Internally decorated acid etched cameo glass vase, circa 1900, in colorless glass over a layer of semi-opaque amber g...
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Early 1900s Antique Vases

Materials

Glass

Large Slender Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Vase with Hydrangea Decor, France, c 1906
Located in Vienna, AT
Tall rod vase with a slender, straight neck with a flat, bulbous body in the flush standing area, colorless glass with yellow and reddish colored powder inclusions, overlay in moss green and violet, in various stages highly etched hydrangea decoration, matt surfaces. Cameo signature 'Gallé' on the wall in the lower area between the leaves...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Glass

Robert Hanke Art Nouveau Porcelain Double Handled Hydrangea Motif Antique Vase
Located in New York, NY
This exceptional ceramic Art Nouveau vase was created by the esteemed Austrian potter Robert Hanke circa 1900. It features a cylindrical body with a cinch...
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Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Porcelain

Acid-Etched Enameled and Applied Galle Glass Vase
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Émile Gallé (1846-1904) An Acid-Etched Enameled and applied Galle Glass Vase, France, circa 1884-1889 etched mark and text 'Cristallerie de Gallé Nan...
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Early 1900s Antique Vases

Materials

Glass

Pair of Gilt Bronze Mounted Marble Vases Signed Jollet & Cie
Located in Stockholm, SE
A fine pair of French ormolu-mounted marble vases. Made c.1906-11. Each stamped with Jollet & Cie. foundry cachet. Beautifully designed and high quality. Would make a very nice pair of lamps if electrified. Le Maison Colin was a very prestigious foundry founded in Paris in 1843 and it was located at 29 rue Sévigné. Renown for their high quality castings, it exhibited in various World’s Fairs including the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris were it was awarded gold medal. The Maison worked with several of the top Parisian bronziers of the era including, amongst many others, Frédérick Eugène Piat (French, 1827-1903), Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824-1887), Eugène Marioton (French, 1854-1925), René Rozet...
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Early 1900s French Belle Époque Antique Vases

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Marble, Ormolu

Minton Secessionist Ware Vase Number 41
Located in East Geelong, VIC
This Minton Secessionist ware vase stands 176 mm (7 inches) high, and has a diameter at the base of 90 mm (3.5 inches). This design is illustrated ...
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Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Earthenware

Quality Antique Pair of Satsuma Vases
Located in Suffolk, GB
Quality antique pair of satsuma vases boasting wonderful gilded decoration with hand painted Geishas. Beautifully painted. A fabulous pair boa...
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Vases

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Porcelain

Magnificent Pair of Amphora Art Nouveau "Lily of the Valley" Figural Vases, 1905
Located in Cathedral City, CA
Proud to offer this matching PAIR of early 20th Century Austria Imperial Amphora “Lily-of-the-Valley” maiden vases. These vases were designed by Eduard Stellmacher and manufactured by Riessner & Kessel Amphora of Turn-Teplitz, Austria, in a very classic Art Nouveau style. They each depict a dimensional nymph figure partially ascending a large Lily of the Valley plant. There are many lily of the valley plants surrounding the figures and a couple of scrolling stems that pass through their long flowing hair. Four main colors are used to decorate the molded vase with gilt highlights, including white, ivory, dark & light beige and gold. There are some impressed marks on the underside bottom, "Imperial Amphora Turn...
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Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Porcelain

Conch Shell Glass Vase Iridescent Handmade Loetz Austria Jugendstil circa 1902
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
Conch Shell Glass Vase Handmade by Johann Loetz Witwe Austria/Bohemia Jugendstil circa 1902 "Diaspora" Decoration The naturalistically depicted shell and snail vases...
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Early 1900s Austrian Jugendstil Antique Vases

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Art Glass, Blown Glass

Fine 'Blow-out' Cameo Glass Vase, 'Cherry' Galle
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Emile Galle, French (1846-1904) A Fine 'Blow-out' Cameo Glass Vase, 'Cherry', circa 1900. Height 10.5 in. (26.67 cm.), signed in cameo Galle.
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Early 1900s Antique Vases

Materials

Glass

Eiler Londal Danico Skronvirke Art Pottery Abstract Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional and scarce Danish Art Nouveau abstract stylized floral decorated vase by Eiler Londal for Danico and dating between 1900 and 1929 believed to be an early example. This stylish and unusual shaped vase stands on a wide skirted...
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Early 1900s Danish Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Pottery

Herman Kähler, Vase, Glazed Earthenware, Denmark, C. 1900
Located in High Point, NC
A glazed earthenware vase with a floral motif, designed and produced by Herman Kähler, Denmark, c. 1900.  
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Early 1900s Danish Scandinavian Modern Antique Vases

Materials

Earthenware

French Large Art Nouveau Silver Overlay Copper Vase Signed Dubois
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A large and stylish French Art Nouveau copper vase decorated with a silver overlay pattern signed Dubois and dating from around 1900. The tall bulbous shaped vase stands on a narrow ...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Silver, Copper

Art Nouveau Cameo Vase with Wisteria Decor, Émile Gallé, France 1903/04
Located in Vienna, AT
Vase in the form of a baluster: oval stand, wall widening towards the top, forming shoulders and converging into a short, narrow neck. Colorless glass with yellow-orange color powder...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Vases

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Glass

Teco Pottery Arts and Crafts Architectural Vase
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Teco Pottery Arts & Crafts vase with Four buttressed handles created circa 1903-1910. This piece is designed by W.B. Mundie for Teco Pottery. The vase is...
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Early 1900s Arts and Crafts Antique Vases

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Pottery

Meiji Period Satsuma, Japanese Art Nouveau, Kinkōzan Decorative Bowl, ca. 1900
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions Height: 2.5 inches Diameter: 12.25 inches About the object This unique decorative bowl, most likely, was created at the Kinkozan workshop. Kinkozan pottery...
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Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Vases

Materials

Ceramic

French Majolica Triple Branches Vase, circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica triple branches rustic vase circa 1900.
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Early 1900s French Rustic Antique Vases

Materials

Ceramic

Loetz Vesuvian Candia Iridescent Glass Vase with Tadpoles
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Stylish Bohemian Vesuvian Candia iridescent glass vase with tadpoles by Johann Loetz Witwe and dating from around 1901. The simply shaped wide v...
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Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Blown Glass

Pair Fine Japanese Porcelain Satsuma Vases Artist Signed Meiji Era
Located in Ann Arbor, MI
Antique Pair of Fine Satsuma vases with animal handles and amazing hand painted decoration. Each piece is signed by the artist. Vases are 7.5 inches ...
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Vases

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Porcelain

Conch Shell Glass Vase Iridescent Handmade Loetz Austria Jugendstil, circa, 1900
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
Conch shell glass vase handmade by Johann Loetz Witwe Austria/Bohemia Jugendstil circa 1902 "Candia Papillon" Decoration. The extravagant Candia Papillon decor lends a special brilliance to the shell shape of this collectible. The iridescent quality of this decoration not only encompasses the outside of the intricately applied silver crumbled dots, but extends into the interior of the glass shell. A characteristic of this scroll vase...
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Early 1900s Austrian Jugendstil Antique Vases

Materials

Art Glass, Blown Glass

Tiffany Studios New York "Jack in the Pulpit" Favrile Glass Vase
Located in New York, NY
Known as a "Jack in the Pulpit" vase, this Favrile glass creation by Tiffany Studios New York begins with a bulbous base in deep hues of striated, swirling iridescent yellow and gold. Shooting upward from the base is an elongated, narrow neck of similar coloration, darkening in coloration as it ascends. From the narrow neck explodes an outward facing glass bloom in brilliant shades of ochre, umber and marigold, made to shimmer by the undulations in the bloom's outer edges, all tinged with iridescence. Item #: T-20052 Artist: Tiffany Studios New York Country: United States Circa: 1900 Dimensions: 17.5'' height, 8.5'' width, 5'' depth Materials: Favrile glass Signed: “L.C.T. Y5463” Literature: A similar vase is pictured in Timeless Beauty: The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany...
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Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Vases

Materials

Art 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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