Early 1900s 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...

Antique Apple Green Chinese Crackle Vase.

Loetz Candia Silberiris Glass Vase with Silver Overlay Circa 1900 Height: 5.2 inches (13.0 cm) Diameter: 3 Inches (7.5 cm) Condition: Glass vase with silver overlay etched with Art ...

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.

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...

There are two Satsuma Canton Vases with cartouches and rouleau shapes, each featuring one panel of figures. Additionally, there is a uniquely shaped Satsuma bowl. Vase: 5 x 2 in. (1...

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...

American Arts & Crafts Roseville for Tiffany Chinese form Pauleo pattern Vase Glazed ceramic Circa 1900 DIMENSIONS Height: 15.75 inches (40.01 cm) Diameter: 10.5 inches (26.67 cm...

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...

A pair of Japanese Satsuma vases with parcel gilt and enameled decorations from the early 20th century are available for sale. The vases feature gilt mouths, waisted necks, and spira...

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...

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...

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

Edwardian Classical sterling silver urn. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York. Curved and tapering bowl with leaf flange on domed foot; leaf-capped, wrapped, and mounted high-looping si...

Unique white and orange (Peach Glass) antique folded dish that sits upon 3 legs. There are raised glass details of cherries on the underside that show through to the inside bottom of...

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....

Antique Satsuma gilt porcelain vase depicting hand painted immortal figures all around the piece in high relief. Made in Japan, c. 1900's. *Includes mark on base. Dimensions: 11.5"H ...

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...

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...

5484 Large Della Robbia Vase decorated in an Art Nouveay Design of Stylised Tulips below a scolloped neck by Charles Collis Light crazing with a little staining to the neck and a gla...

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...

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...

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...

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

Pair of Chinese turquoise porcelain vases, each with a gilt bronze base, made in the 1900's. They consist of a wonderful hand-painted depiction of a peach tree branch with plenty of ...

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...

This Vase has gorgeous Petina around the female sculpture. It gives the illusion that she is climbing up the vines that wrap around the vase. Possibly early 1900s. Marble or stone ba...

An petite opalescent ovoid favrile glass vase in hues of greens and blues by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Etched J C T and numbered on the base. No chips, cracks or repairs.

Vase in the shape of a drum on an oval, short base, slightly tapering towards the top in depth, at the top as an opening an arcuate cutout with a slight beaded edge. Colorless glass ...

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

Early 20th Century Bronze mantle urn with black composite base featuring the Greek Golden Fleece Chrysomallos decorative with black composite base. Measurements: Length: 14 3/4" Wid...

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...

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 fine example of Hand Hammered Russian Copper Retailed by The Stickley Brothers at the turn of the century. Original Patina and Riveted Details Shown in the line drawings in the per...

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

Amphora Austria "Campina" Owl Pottery Vase circa 1910 An Austrian Pottery vase adorned with an owl-inspired design motif stands out for its intri...

Antique Victorian Spelter & Marble Figural Mermaid Centerpiece Bowl Vase Epergne. Item features ornate detailed mermaids figures, black marble plinth, pinkish purple vase insert, sub...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Roskilde Lervare Fabrik vase manufactured by a well known but very undocumented factory called Roskilde Lervare Fabrik in Denmark in the early 1900’s. This specific vase is marked wi...

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,...

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...