20th Century Vases

A number of colored rectangles on perpendicular incised white lines over a black glossy glaze background defines this Mid-Century Modern vase from Üebelacker-Keramik also known as ...

A fantastic and rather large handblown vintage art sommerso glass vase, design and signed by the talented Gunnar Nylund and Asta Strömberg from the prestigious Strömbergshyttan Sweden. This vase has a fantastic color, a deep smokey grey or nearly black color, covered with clear crystal. The design is simple yet very much of 60s and inspiration from the space age, it is sleek, elegant and sophisticated, especially with the fantastic contrasting color. -It is 27cm (10.62") high and 8.5cm wide (3.34") and 5cm deep (1.96") at the base, in a teardrop shape and in a good condition, yet some minor abrasion underneath, and micro soot flakes yet overall a fantastic vase. The price includes free shipping. Strömberghyttan; a company which early on grasped the importance of good design when it comes to art and design glass, rendering them a leading position in mid-century modern Scandinavian design. Interior design and decoration which stood out with a distinct quality, very much due to the famous designers Gerda and Asta Strömberg. Many items with iconic design which Strömbergshyttan became famed for was often creations made by Asta Strömberg, who designed most of the glass, focusing on modern art glass and other interior design objects such as crystal vases. The company also hired the multi-talented award winning and iconic artist and designer Gunnar Nylund as well as Rune Strand...

Ceramic vase by Roger Capron in Vallauris, circa 1960. Ceramic vase by Roger Capron, circa 1960 in Vallauris. H: 21cm, D: 10cm

Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown opalescent pink and controlled bubbles Italian art glass flower vase. Documented to the Fratelli Toso company, and published in the company books....

This refined Mid-Century Modernist "Ginkgo" vase by Baccarat, crafted in France circa 1980, combines sleek design with meticulous craftsmanship. Made from Baccarat's signature crysta...

"shipping note: If your region or country is not listed under the shipping options please contact us directly" This Dümler & Breiden ceramic floor or branch vase is a great example ...

Vase "Sauterelles" made in cased opalescent glass with blue patina by Rene Lalique in 1912. Engraved signature. Perfect condition. Exceptional and extremely rare color. height : ...

Kaiser West German Porcelain vase with a leaf design to front and back. Nice size at 10" tall.

Bitossi vase, ceramic blue and white, signed. Small scale slab vase with three color glaze. Signed with paper label on the underside: CB 7/21 Made in Italy.

This glass vase was created in 1920 ca. by the French artist glass maker André Delatte (Chatenois/Vosges 1887 - Toulouse/Haute Garonne 1953). In 1921 he founded the glass works 'Les ...

A very attractive early 20th Century French cameo glass slender shaped vase decroated with deep burgundy and red flowers against a vibrant yellow field, signed Gallé. ADDITIONAL INF...

Vase "Aras" made in teal green glass with white patina by René Lalique in 1924. Molded signature. Perfect condition. Extraordinary and extremely rare color. height: 23 cm Félix Ma...

Iridescent green and silver crystal vase by Loetz, made in the 1950s. Ø cm 11 h cm 10 Loetz is a name that immediately evokes images of extraordinarily beautiful and refined blown ...

Finnish pottery vase from the studio of Pirjo Nylander of Helsinki Finland. Perfect condition.

A strikingly sculptural amphora-form vase by Seguso Vetri d’Arte, crafted in Italy during the 1970s. Realised in richly pigmented cobalt blue scavo glass, the vase draws its aestheti...

Introducing a very rare and adorable Arts and Craft Yellow Flower Vase in Irregular Shape by Hilma Persson Hjelm, Sweden. It embodies the essence of...

Jean Linard Realised in La Borne, elegant ceramic bottle. Decorative brown ceramic object. Signed under the base. Measures: Height 22cm, large 11cm.

Mid-Century German Brutalist Fat Lava Copper Vase, 1960s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1960 to 1969. Additional information: Materials: Metal Style: Brutalist, Mid-Century Mode...

Very Rare Moriage Netting From our Japanese collection, we are thrilled to introduce this fine Japanese Moriage Cloisonne Enamel Vase. The Cloisonne Enamel Vase of baluster form wi...

Signature design vase by Edith Nielsen - Zeuthen Denmark circa 1950s. Red clay body decorated with white flowers. The interior of this piece has the sa...

Gunnar Nylund vase in a rare turquoise glaze with brown flecks, hand-thrown stoneware, made at Rörstrand factory in the 1950s. 1st quality sorting. The model is called ‚Pike Mouth‘ ...

Beautiful Lalique crystal "Marrakech" vase, design by Marie-Claude Lalique, daughter of Marc Lalique. France circa 1980. Very good condition. Dimensions in cm ( H x L x l ) : ...

Vase “Pezzato” (color variant “Paris”) by Fulvio Bianconi, Venini Murano. Vase featuring an arrangement of red, blue, green and straw glass pieces. Mouth blown glass. The technique k...

Art Deco blue ceramic vase with dancers by Mougin Frères
design by Georges Condé. Grès Ceramic with incised decor of dancing nudes. France 1930. This vase is illustrated in: Jacque...

Vase in pewter with beutiful circular handles, Swedish Grace / Art Deco by Sylvia Stave for CG Hallberg. Sylvia Stave and Estrid Ericson were the two most prominent women within pe...

Assortment of blue and green Mdina glass vases, made in Malta in the 1960s and 70s under the direction of founder Michael Harris, an English artist who established the Mdina glasswor...

1960s Italian Ceramic Bud Vase by Fratelli Fanciullacci This charming ceramic bud vase by Fratelli Fanciullacci exemplifies the playful creativity of mid-century Italian ceramics. R...

A small French "clay mosaic" vase by ceramicist Jean Gerbino, mosaic patterning is in blue, cream, brown and greens. Signed on the bottom "Vallauris". Measures:- Diameter: 3.5, He...

Mid-Century Italian Strawberry Pottery Vase by Fratelli Fanciullacci for Bitossi, 1960s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1960 to 1969 This piece has an attribution mark, It is comp...

A tall, vintage Mid-Century modern Italian single Rostri vase made of hand blown slightly smoked Murano glass, designed by Ercole Barovier for Barovier & Toso, in good condition. The...

1980s Modern Murano Glass Cylinder Vase – Multicolor Millefiori Style Brighten up your space with this stunning 1980s Modern Murano glass ...

A 'Cinese' Italian Art Glass Murano vase with lid designed by by Venini & Co. from Italy circa 1960. Both the vase and lid are made of cased glass, clear and opaque red. Marked: veni...

By Luigi Mandruzzato – who was Alessandro Mandruzzato's grandfather, who then later took over the family business. So Luigi was the original artist in the family indeed! Rare and ab...

Large stoneware vase by Berndt Friberg, in a beautiful plump form with a thick neck. Vibrant blue hare’s fur glaze with darker areas. Berndt Friberg was a Swedish ceramicist, renown...

This stunning super heavy Large Murano Art Glass Vase is handmade mouth blown in Black and Clear Cristallo Glass With Silver Leaf between the two layer This exquisite Murano art gla...

This stunning piece of ceramic was produced at Rörstrand and maker/designer Carl Harry Stålhane. Made in Sweden in the 1950s. Beautiful glazed vases with nice lines. Its rounded bott...

A gorgeous Arts & Crafts period turquoise glazed ceramic art pottery bud vase By Van Briggle (signed to the underside) USA, Early 20th Century Measures: 3.13"W x 3.13"D x 7"H. V...

Collection of 6 wood fired stoneware ceramic vases by Atelier Pelagres, Jean Paul and Suzy Brenet. France c 1960. Each signed AP and with impressed...

Wonderful Murano vase made by the Barovier and Toso glassworks in the 1930s-40s. A unique touch of class to decorate any space. The vase was made using the bubble technique. The vase...

A French earthenware confit pot with traditional green glaze. These ordinary earthenware vessels were once used daily in the French country home and have beautiful rustic glazes of g...

Vintage Wade Made In England Ceramic Gothic Pattern Glazed Vase in Pastel Colors with Gold Rim. Beautiful Wade Hand Painted Pottery Gothic water jug, handled vase with an elegantly curved body. The molded design features the "Gothic pattern" flowers and leaves on twisting vines. Beautiful Art Deco style decorative ceramic pottery jug beige background with hand painted tulip design in pastel green leaves complete the color scheme and gold handle and rim. Dimension: 9 inches H x 8.25 inches at widest part with handle x 4.75 diameter. Some typical factory glaze peppering on top of rim. Wade Irish ceramic pitcher in fantastic condition, as pictured. No chips, no cracks, no repairs, some crazing. Fully marked on the bottom, N "Wade , Made in England, Hand Painted" "Gothic". Wade Ceramics Ltd was a manufacturer of porcelain and earthenware, headquartered in Stoke-on-Trent, England. In the 1950s, the Wade potteries created 'Whimsies', small solid porcelain animal figures first developed by Sir George Wade, which became popular and collectable in Britain and America, following their retail launch in 1954. John Wade...

René Lalique - “Biskra” vase in opalescent glass enhanced with a blue patina. Sandblasted signature with stamp. Model created by René Lalique in 1932 and removed from the catalog ...

Stunning fat lava hole vase - vibrant orange with crusty thick fat lava glaze in bronze/brown. According to Mark Hill the quality of Dümler & Breiden pieces...

A wonderful crystal Oceanie cobalt blue collar vase designed by the French artist Thomas Bastide (born 1954) for Baccarat. Made in France, the vase features a cylindrical barrel stop...

Large Art Deco vase by AMPHORA (Turn Teplitz, Bohemia), Czech Republic, late 1920s. This vase was produced for France. Large vase with two small handles. Rotating enameled Art Deco d...

Large Pierre D’Avesn Large French Art Deco Flying fish vase circa 1930s with an amazing blue patina. Very well designed piece.

Before describing the object under consideration, we must make an important clarification; the artifact, one of many that we will publish over time, is part of the museum collection of a historic Florentine crystal grinder that unfortunately closed recently. It is the Marcello Galgani & Son company, whose completely manual and artisanal work has not withstood the disproportionate advance of mass-produced mechanical processes! Marcello Galgani began his craft as a grinder and restorer in 1960; as the years went by, Marcello mastered and became familiar with particular techniques and shapes, resulting in the production of objects that manage to retain the freshness of grinding and engraving, the warmth and softness of light, and the inimitable flavor of unique artifacts. After several years, his son Lorenzo, who grew up among crystals, also entered the business and immediately became passionate about this ancient craft with skill and ability. Stimulated by the aesthetic sense of the past, father and son, set up a workshop in which the shapes they researched and created themselves are mouth-blown by traditional Tuscan glassmakers in Empoli, then ground and engraved using ancient sixteenth-century techniques, with motifs born from the Galgani's inexhaustible imagination or culturally inspired by designs of objects seen and studied in Florentine museums (Uffizi, Galleria Palatina, Museo degli Argenti, etc.). Marcello and Lorenzo Galgani were also Masters in the difficult art of restoration, bringing rare and precious objects back to life. As mentioned the company recently closed and disposed of all its last production, and only Marcello's old private museum collection remained, which includes unique and special objects created over time, a collection that the craftsman made available to us for a planned sale. All of the objects were made entirely by hand with old grinding wheels, but there were mainly two tools that allowed the creation of masterpieces: the right hand and the left hand of the master craftsman. Ancient glassmaking techniques were used for all the ground and engraved products: first, the object was ground with an emery wheel fed continuously by a jet of abrasive sand and water, then re-polished with a very fine-grained sandstone wheel also fed with water; the engravings were done freehand using as many as 10-15 small stone wheels for each design (flowers, branches, animals, etc. ); then the object was polished and shined; we must make, at this point, an important clarification on these last two operations: towards the end of the 1960s acid crystal polishing was devised, the object was immersed and rotated in a solution of sulfuric acid, fluoridic acid and water and in a short time all the defects left by the previous processes were eliminated, it was a fast, industrial operation that allowed to lower costs considerably, with discrete but not excellent results. But for Galgani's products polishing is done with a cork bark wheel wet with water and pumice, to make the surfaces more transparent, and finally polishing was achieved with a felt wheel wet with a paste of water, iron oxide, and cerium oxide. This series of processes takes an average of two days of work( sometimes much longer) for each object, each engraving or grinding is the result of the creative inventiveness of the two artisans, inventiveness that transforms crystal into reality material of the highest aesthetic value and inestimable value. All the items in the entire collection have never been used; they were part of the exhibition. Large crystal vase; the decorations, in baroque style represent a series of "grotesques" The object is "a unique piece" signed by the Master, it was created in Marcello Galgani's workshop in 1983 and made with the techniques (grinding, engraving and polishing) that we explained in the description; for the shape, the Master was inspired by a vase present in a painting, preserved in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence by the sixteenth-century painter Jacopo Ligozzi...

Murano, Italy. Art glass vase in clear and red glass. Modern form. Approximately 1960s. Label. Perfect condition. Dimensions: H 20.9 cm x W 10.5 cm.

Handblown Mosque glass oil lamp in Mameluke style gilded with Arabic Calligraphy Middle Eastern Mosque lamp in the Islamic tradition, Moorish style han...

A large and impressive turned centerpiece bowl by Edward Moulthrop. Made of figured sweetgum wood and signed on the bottom. It's big at 14" diameter and 9.5" in height.

Just Andersen Art Deco vase in disco metal. 1940s. In excellent condition with fine patina. Model D1522. Dimensions: H 10 x D 9.0 cm.

White-glazed earthenware baluster vase, decorated with a series of fine hand-pinched fillets forming serpentines around the vase. Rare white earthenware vase (1940-1950 period) by Em...

Superb "Oleron" René Lalique bijoux vase. Spherical vase with a concave base, short truncated conical neck, and flat rim, featuring a design of intertwined fish standing out against ...

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...

Floor vase by Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand, Sweden. Glazed stone ware.

A striking faceted, geometric, cubist, clear glass vase which reflects the light beautifully from every angle. This heavy block vase was designed J. G. Durand for Luminarc in France...

A sizeable fluted celadon green-glazed earthenware vase designed and Ewald Dahlskog and produced by Bo Fajans, Sweden, 1930s.

This equisential detailed Art Deco Émile Gallé Cameo Glass Vase in Amber and Yellow W/Naturalist Detailing originates from France, Circa 1900. Features a golden base color with amber...

This magnificent pair of Chinese Antique Cloisonné Vases is the perfect decor pieces. With beautiful two dragons playing design, it is a majest...

Italian glass 'Scavo' vase by Alfredo Barbini, Murano (circa 1970s). This vase has a rounded triangular opening. Scavo glass indicates that the glass went through a specific glass fi...