Pair of Wedgwood Lustre Red Dragon Vases, 1900

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...

Art Nouveau green and silver irredescent art glass trumpet vase from Austria, circa 1900. Mottled striated and swirled oil spot design with irredescent blue and purple favrille desig...

Large Martaban Ming dynasty stoneware storage vase with dragons, 14th century. Beautiful Ochoa and yellow brown glaze with decorated dragons and Ming clouds. Applied snail or dragon ...

Large Martaban Ming dynasty stoneware storage vase with dragons, 14th century. Beautiful Ochoa and yellow-brown glaze with decorated dragons and Ming clouds. Applied snail or dragon ...

Loetz Art Nouveau circa 1900 art glass vases with floral and decorative scroll Silver Overlay. (Pair) Larger: Corset form in iridescent gold glass decorated with scrolling silver overlay and a blank cartouche. Height: 5.25 X 2.75 Diameter Condition: Mint. Smaller: Bulbous smoke stack form in iridescent green-gold decorated with scrolling silver overlay flowers. Marked: Alvin pat 67 Height: 4.25 X 2,65 Diameter Condition: Mint 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 if the items are not as described. In 1836, Johann Eisner established a glassworks in the Southern Bohemian town of Klostermühle, today part of the Czech Republic and called Klášterský Mlýn. His heirs sold the glassworks to Martin Schmid in 1849, and two years later Schmid sold it to Frank Gerstner, attorney-at-law, and his wife Susanne. Susanne was the widow (‘Witwe’ in German) of Johann Loetz, a glassmaker about whom we know very little. Gerstner transferred sole ownership to Susanne shortly before his death in 1855, and she successfully led and expanded the company during the subsequent 20 years, manufacturing mainly crystal, overlay and painted glass. In 1879, Susanne transferred the company – now called ‘Johann Loetz Witwe’ – to Maximilian von Spaun, the son of her daughter Karoline. One year later, von Spaun hired Eduard Prochaska and the two of them modernized the factory and introduced new, patented techniques and processes. The first fruits of this collaboration were exciting innovations in Historicism glass, including Intarsia and Octopus glass and the very popular marbled (‘marmorisierte’) glass which imitated semi-precious stones like red chalcedony, onyx and malachite. Success at exhibitions in Brussels, Munich and Vienna were crowned by awards at the Paris World’s Exposition in 1889. In 1897, von Spaun first saw Tiffany Favrile glass exhibited in Bohemia and Vienna, and this convinced him that the art nouveau style was also the way to go for Loetz Witwe. The next eight years were to be the most artistically significant and profitable period in the entire history of the company. The Art Nouveau Period –The glassworks created large numbers of its own new designs of iridescent, trailing art nouveau glass, sometimes in collaboration with well-known artists and designers like Marie Kirschner and Franz Hofstötter (aka Franz Hofstätter). The zenith of Loetz art nouveau glass was epitomized by the so-called Phänomen series of designs, much of it designed by Hofstötter, which won a Grand Prix (alongside Tiffany, Gallé, Daum and Lobmeyr) at the Paris World’s Exposition in 1900. The company’s success during this period had two prime drivers – the technical expertise of Prochaska and the business acumen of von Spaun. Loetz Witwe created many of its own designs, and also supplied glass commissioned by major customers like E. Bakolowits (Vienna) and Max Emanuel...

This French Art Deco cameo glass vase was created by Charles Schneider (1881–1958) for his Le Verre Francais line. The vase in the “Cardamines” cutting was produced from 1924-1927. A...

Wedgwood dragon lustre vase, shape number 2034. Decorated with the Celestial dragon in guilt on a mixed blue lutsre background. Painted pattern number 'Z...

Standing a full 20" high, this is one of the largest lustre vases Wedgwood ever produced. In excellent condition, this would make an exciting accent piece for the home, or a drop-de...

5437 Daisy Makeig Jones for Wedgwood. A Baluster Vase decorated with the “Lahore” design featuring Elephants and Birds within an Art Deco Border 26.5cm...

5146 Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre Vase decorated in the scarce Bifrost design by Daisy Makeig Jones 21.5cm high Circa 1920

5391 Daisy Makeig Jones A Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre Vase decorated in the “Ship and Tree” design in a Flame Colourway 20.5cm high, 8.5cm wide circa 1920.

5158 Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre Vase by Daisy Makeig Jones decorated with “Imps on a Bridge” design in the Flame colourway Circa 1920 Measures: 26.5cm high.