European Vases

Imposing Longwy vase from the Majolica series, produced from the late 19th to the early 20th century, notably in the Primavera workshops. This particular model is made in a deep tu...

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...

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...

Émile Gallé (1846-1904), Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase « Gladioli Flowers » Large piriform vase on heel with long collar in dark blue and blue multi-layered glass Cased glass, opales...

Hand-built vase of an experimental design, possibly for exhibition, as it is unmarked.

Hand-built vase of an experimental design, possibly for exhibition, as it is unmarked.

Galle Cameo Glass Anemone Vase, circa 1900 Art Nouveau Marks: Gallé Height: 9.5 inches (24.1 cm) Diameter: 4.5 Condition: Vase features red and pink anemones over a white to yellow...

These pots are stunning sculptural treasures from the sea. An handmade terracote pot submerged under sea and used as a trap octopus . Oyester shells create beautiful pearl irid...

These pots are stunning sculptural treasures from the sea. An handmade terracota pot submerged under sea and used as a trap for individual octopus, a lovely pink. Oyster shells c...

Model #3516 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...

Pair of French Faience Vases Circa 1900. Decorated with leaves on the top , coat of arms on the base.

Finest Bohemian Art Nouveau Glass Vase: Shaped, blown, bulbous body with 12-lobed, slightly ribbed wall on a flush, round base, the wall raised to a spherical oval shape, slightly fl...

Patinated art nouveau bronze base with hand blown art glass insert vase.

An exquisite French St Louis crystal glass gold enameled vase with a ruffled rim. Spherical body, ribbed, with flared rim. Enhanced with Rococco gilt details and embellished with vio...

Vase, Johann Loetz Witwe for E. Bakalowits' Söhne, Luna decoration, 1901 Material and technique: glass, mould-blown and freeform, reduced and iridescent Bib.: E. Ploil, H. Ricke e....

Rare Loetz Art nouveau glass Artist Loetz (has another signature for export to other markets) Origin Austria Crica 1900 Excellent condition without restorations It is signed J Massi ...

Vase, Koloman Moser, Johann Loetz Witwe for E. Bakalowits' Söhne, Violetta decoration, 1903 Among the most important glass objects from the Lötz manufactory are undoubtedly those fr...

1909 Two Karen Hagen Hand-Crafted Danish Art Nouveau Vases by P. Ipsens Enke The hand-crafted art nouveau vases feature art nuveau pattern with 4 handles as integrated part of the d...

This beautiful glass bowl shimmers with an iridescent reflection under typical lighting conditions. The artist Kralik created this style of glasswork based on the Nautilus Decor coll...

A charming pair of Art Nouveau vases featuring a pair of fairies. One of the fairies calls out to her partner, who listens from the other vase. The reverse of the vases each has a da...

A stunning pair Austrian heliosine iridescent glazed art pottery vases by Karl Rudolf Ditmar (1818-1895). The pair of squat double gourd shaped vases are...

Emile Gallé Cameo glass vase, richly decorated with branches with flowers, blooms, and leaves of Clematis. Shaped as a small baluster, this beautiful vase is made of multilayered gla...

Bulbous shoulder vase on a flush stand, short neck piece with silver mount as a ring in a smooth, slightly flared design, on the outside opposite two fully sculptural branch and cone bundles, colourless glass with white powder meltings, overlay in blue-violet and green, meadow flower decoration etched in various stages, matt etched inside and outside. Cameo signature 'Gallé' with star on the wall between the plants. Silver mount hallmarked 'Minerve casquée' for 950 silver, France, and master's mark. Hand-made Cameo Glass: Glass overlaid with several layers, with high-cut worked out motifs. Since the middle of the 19th century, the design has also been done by etching. Cameo glass vessels were already being made in antiquity; at the end of the 19th century, Émile Gallé further developed this glass art, created Art Nouveau designs and employed a large factory in Nancy...

The virtuosic blending of color and texture shows how inventive decoration can triumph over nondescript form. Brightly colored drips of slurry clay cascade like melted wax down the t...

This is a Daum Nancy "Dawn landscape" miniature double-glazed vase decorated with birch trees and groves of trees in perspective, engraved in reserve and enameled in polychrome on a ...

Not one, but two hand blown Art Nouveau Bohemian vases attributed to Loetz with organic "feather" turquoise threading over the apple green body. The bright iridescence makes these ey...

2 Brass jugendstil vases vienna around 1908 Brass polished and stove enameled

The front of this Royal Worcester porcelain vase features a spray of hand painted thistles and other flowers in the style of Edward Raby junior. Raby (b. 1863) was at Royal Worcester...

Small but elegant glass vase in a polished brass mount. The vase was designed by Antoinette Krasnik (School of Koloman Moser). The vase was produced by the Bohemian glass manufacture...

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

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

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

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

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

Vase in upright drum shape on an oval, flush stand, short neck piece raised at the top centre with slightly flared, raised rim, two handles fused onto the sides of the outer rim and ...

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

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

Emile Gallé, Nancy, Art Nouveau Cameo Vase with Hydrangeas - France ca. 1904. Polychrome overlaid decoration with hydrangeas on a milky and pink background, marked Gallé with a star,...

This is a magnificent set of 5 of highly decorative early 20th Century Etruscan style Lekythos vases also known as black-figure pottery painting. Figures and ornaments were painted o...

Multilayered glass vase, in cameo technique. Cylindrical form in mottled orange, red, and brown, circa 1910. The decor of flowers and leaves is engraved in reserve and taken up on th...

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

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

Art Nouveau ceramic fruit bowl stamped with a crown by, AUSTRIA AMPHORA 390042. Austria, CIRCA 1900.

4-piece set consisting of two vases and a centerpiece for flowers, made of silver-plated bronze with cut glass, manufactured by WMF-Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik (1853 to the pr...

These matching green pillar vases' bases are painted black and contain various geometric designs that work their way up the shaft of the vase, eventually becoming less concentrated....

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...

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...

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

Lot of THREE ART NOUVEAU signed by Boch Keramis circa 1900 Vases in earthenware decorated with Arabic on gilding incised by Boch Brothers Kéramis circa 1900. Signed BFK 593 A/L Size:...

A Tudric pewter twin handled vase with a tall cylindrical neck and everted rim, the handles of sinuous organic form fashioned with Celtic entrelac motifs. Stamped - TUDRIC 0214 Des...

Christian Thompsen (1860 - 1921) for Royal Copenhagen. Established in 1775, Royal Copenhagen grew to become one of the major producers of Danish porcelain. 1895 marked the beginni...

Vase "Glycines" (Wisteria) made in multilayer purple and white cameo acid-etched glass. Molded signature. Perfect condition.  height : 33 cm

French Majolica White Rose Vase Circa 1900. H / 6.5 inches.

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...

An exceptional and rare Bohemian art nouveau Phenomen Genre 2/484 (also known as Medici) pattern Loetz vase dating from around 1902. This beautiful vase stands on a rounded spread fo...

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...

Acid-etched glass vase, Nancy school. France, CIRCA 1900.

Model #4619 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...