Early 20th Century Vases

Richly glazed in tones of ruddy brown, ivory and dark chocolate, this stunning vase by Jean Mayodon features a series of medallions with classical nude male figures in various poses....

A woven bamboo ikebana hanakago (flower basket) with handle circa first half of the 20th century (Taisho or Showa era) by Japanese bamboo master Maeda Chikubosai I (1872-1950). In th...

Antique Millefiori Vase in Brown, Green and White, Fratelli Toso Murano 1910 An antique Millefiori murrine glass vase manufactured by Vetreria Fratelli Toso, Murano around 1910. Mad...

Charming and sentimental, this vintage "Best Wishes" toothpick holder brings a touch of whimsy and Victorian flair to any tabletop or curio display. Crafted from a darkened metal all...

This is a very large pair of antique decorative vases. An Oriental, ceramic baluster urn or stick stand, dating to the late Victorian period, c...

French Sarreguemines style glazed ceramic urn with griffin handles. Handsome French sarreguemines style glazed ceramic urn, vase vessel with grif...

Art Nouveau Alvin sterling over green glass vase with fluted top. Glass vase possibly Steuben.

Vase "Gui" made in amethyst plum glass by René Lalique in 1920. Molded signature. Perfect condition. Very beautiful and rare color. height: 17 cm Félix Marcilhac, René Lalique - C...

Antique large pair of Royal Doulton Slater vases. Art Nouveau, early 20th Century. Lovely quality vases... a touch of class. Would look ama...

This 1920s Art Deco vase, designed by Danish sculptor and silversmith Just Andersen in Copenhagen, is a striking example of his pioneering work in...

Glazed Ceramic vase, Art Nouveau Period, France, Early 20th Century.

A wonderful antique M.Z. Austria Porcelain footed bowl with charming floral design in multi colors, all hand-painted very attractive shapes, and tone unmark,...

Large round bowl with a quatrefoil-shaped indented mouth rim, colorless glass with yellow and brown powder inclusions, etched and painted with colored enamel columbine decor, satin-f...

Vintage Kosta Boda Elis Bergh Etched Rampant Lion Crystal Glass 7.5" Vase. Item featured is signed to base "Kosta Bergh", facet cut, very nice antique item. Circa Early 20th Century....

A pair of Japanese bronze vases depicting scenes with different birds. These would make a wonderful pair of lamps.

An enameled cameo glass vase signed in cameo Daum Nancy with Cross of Lorraine, circa 1910.

A gorgeously glazed, classically designed two handle Fulper Pottery vase featuring a mirror black/dark charcoal glaze that radiates in the light. Signed on the base with Fulper lo...

Glazed ceramic vase, early 20th century. This is a beautifully glazed Studio Pottery vase made in the early 20th century. It has a very distinct shape with a spherical base and a sl...

Signed in ink: Ch. Catteau Marked in ink: D.1009 (design number) Incised: Grès Kéramis and 898 (shape number) Stamped: Boch F es La Louvière made in Belgium This vase displays Catte...

Wonderful pair of large-scale early 20th century Delft blue and white covered jars. Makes a great accessory! Circa 1920 20h x 7 h

A museum piece of French Art Nouveau glass art: Lamp with baluster-shaped foot on a stepped, flat, round stand raised in the centre, hemispherical shade, slightly heat-stretched and pressed upwards on four sides, made of multi-layered glass with coloured powder fusions, predominantly in yellow-orange, red, brown, green and blue-violet tones, with highly etched vine leaves and grapevine decoration, two fully sculpted snails on the foot as a special accent, Cameo signature ‘DAUM NANCY’ with Lorraine cross on the foot in the lower area, and on the shade, which rests on a patinated metal mount, which also carries the threads for the light sources, one at the top and one inside the foot. Technique: Handmade 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; cameo glass vessels were already being made in ancient times, and at the end of the 19th century this glass art was further developed, especially in Nancy. Manufactory: Daum Frères / Nancy, Lorraine, France Dating: Circa 1905 Dimensions: Height: 53,5 cm / 21.06 in Diameter: 32,0 cm / 12.59 in Bibliography: Carolus Hartmann, Glasmarken-Lexikon / Encyclopedia of Glass Marks, Stuttgart / Germany 1997, Signature number 2984 on page 148, and page 561: Daum Frères & Cie, Verreries de Nancy Condition: Very good The electrification is functional, but should be renewed for safety reasons. About the design: The development of Art Nouveau glass art coincides with a revolution in lighting, the significance of which we can no longer fully appreciate today in the 21st century. Around 1880-1890, oil lamps and paraffin lamps were still almost unrivalled in every household. It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that the ‘electricity fairy’ emerged as a remarkable advance and gradually found its way into the daily lives of all social classes. The glassmakers at the Ecole de Nancy were true pioneers and eagerly seized the opportunity to use electricity to illuminate the colours applied to the glass. Colour was one of the main concerns of the master glassmakers at the Ecole de Nancy. Emile and Antonin Daum returned to the colours that had made the stained glass of the Middle Ages so splendid and extended the palette of colours in the glass mass as they needed it for the floral motifs and exact representations of nature. But the modulation of the colours, their arrangement in juxtaposed patches, the technique that the Impressionist painters practised on their canvases at the same time, was difficult to achieve due to the nature of the glass melted in a large mass. To achieve this richness of expression, around 1900 Daum developed ‘the process of applying glass powder and enamel to the outside of the vases to create coloured backgrounds or decorative spots’, according to the report of the jury of the 1900 World Exhibition. The field of naturalistic, contrasting and shimmering colours was one in which Antonin Daum excelled. This new technical process made it possible to create the symphonies of colour that we find on the ‘Vignes et escargots’ lamp...

DAUM Nancy, France. Large bowl of multilayered glass, decorated with trees in a lake landscape. Polilobed bowl with triple glass overlay in orange, red, and brown, featuring a finel...

A gorgeous Art Nouveau period iridescent art glass vase with beautifully executed floral design in sterling silver By Loetz Austria, Early 20th Century Measures: 4"W x 4"D x 5"H. ...

Large enameled glass columbine flower pedestaled vase by Daum nancy. Variegated yellow glass with enameled red flowers, circa 1900. Signed in cameo ...

Impressive art nouveau vase designed by Soyer Et Fils. An extremely rare and very important piece, created in Paris, France at the atelier of Soyer Et Fils during the art nouveau ...

Beautiful Art Noveau vase in patinated bronze, designed by Hugo Elmqvist. Stately form with a heavy base, decorated with a dynamic relief of seaweed and crabs.

French Art Deco stoneware vase by Louis DAGE (Antony, Paris), France, 1920s. Enamel applications. Height: 8.2"(20.5cm), Diameter: 9.8"(25cm). Excellent condition ! Louis Dage starts...

PAIR of Chinese Qing Dynasty Kangxi Period-style (early 20th Century) sleeve vases depicting a garden setting on a celadon background, with designs at the top and base in Jingdezhen ...

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...

Immerse yourself in the timeless elegance of Art Deco with this exquisite Murano glass amphora, a masterful creation by the prestigious Fratelli Toso house. This piece is not only a ...

An Unusual Wedgwood Art Deco Period Lustreware Vase, circa 1920. Decorated with gilt tree bark over a deep chocolate brown ground, the vase is centered by a rose colored cartouche wi...

Art deco thick-walled, facet clear glass vase with hand-cut pattern.

Jean Luce (1895 -1964) Art Deco double-handled stoneware vase by Jean Luce, circa 1925-1930. Signed " JL " under the base.

René Lalique, (1860-1945) 'BOUCHARDON' A clear and frosted glass vase with a bluish green patina, Model introduced, 1926 Marcilhac 981, Size: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm) high Script si...

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 ...

Daum Nancy, France. Colossal Art Deco floor vase in frosted mouth-blown art glass carved with motifs in the form of flowers and leaves. 1920/30's...

Very decorative vase from the early art deco period, made in France. This object has a shape that looks like the ancient Greek amphorae, but has a four-pass stand to ensure stabili...

This tall and rare Tiffany Studios jack in the pulpit vase has an inverted saucer foot with opalescent wafer transition stem to ...

A Japanese long neck porcelain vase circa 1900-1910s by the studio of Miyagawa Kozan (1842–1916), one of the most established and collected Japanese ceramist from the end of Meiji Period. Commonly known as Makuzu Kozan, which also appears as the signature on his work, his originally birth name was Miyagawa Toranosuke. He was the appointed artist to the Japanese Imperial household and his work was exhibited in many international fairs that the Meiji government participated at the turn of the century. This vase features an elegant Classic form with a slender neck and slightly flared mouth above a baluster body. It was finely painted with two swimming carps in a copper red underglaze among green ribbons like waves. The background display a brilliant verdant green overall, Around the fish a poetic hazy effect was emphasized for a visual complexity by Fuki-e (the blow painting), an invention in Kozan's studio. The new technical development of chemical colors from the west was embraced circa 1900s in Kozan studio. This empowered the more creative experiments with not only colors, but also concept of dimension, which led Makuzu Kozan's work to become a bridge between East and West aesthetics. This is particularly evident in this vase with the Masterly details of the brush strokes, the expertly employment of gradient of color, and a very realistic and detailed rendering of the fish and their vivid motions. For two similar examples of Kozan's work with similar carps decoration, see Page 148-149 of the book: Sekai ni Aisa Reta ya Kimono Miyagawa Kozan Makuzu...

Rare and magnificent Pair of Japanese Enameled Porcelain Vases Imperial Meiji Period. This unique pair of antique hand-crafted and hand-painted vases have outstanding high relief det...

A large Sèvres style, mounted and gilt, painted porcelain vase French, Early 20th Century Height 132cm, diameter 37cm This exquisite piece is a beautiful Sèvres style porcelain ...

Pair of French Art Deco frosted glass "DOMREMY" vases with floral relief designs (signed: LALIQUE)

Daum nancy enamel art nouveau art nouveau style motif: orchid flowers green and orange colors glass vase with flowers and leaves around Signed with the cros...

This exquisite Art Nouveau vase by Émile Gallé in Nancy is statement pieces in the room. Signed E. Gallé. Vase with red currant decoration in frosted glass internally suffused with ...

Patrick Nordstrøm (1870-1929) for Royal Copenhagen Stoneware vase with a two-tone glaze in light brown and light grey. Signed with monogram and Royal Copenhagen stamp. No 9-3, 19...

Large Daum internally decorated vase, circa 1900. A similar vase is pictured in: Daum, by Clotilde Bacri, Noel Daum and Clause Petry, Paris: Michel Aveline Editeur, 1992 p. 181.

Colourful porcelain vase with golden decor, marked by Pirkenhammer, produced in 1930's in former Czechoslovakia.

"Mermaid" blown, cut and polished engraved lead crystal vase by famed Swedish glass artist Nils Landberg (1907 - 1981) for Orrefors Glassworks. A fine early example of Landberg's ea...

A splendid “rose over yellow” (original catalogue description) ‘Palacio’ crystal vase with a straight neck above the angular bulbous body. The vase is cut to clear with lenses, split...

Daum Nancy miniature Technique: Enameled and acid-etched glass Origin: France Circa 1910 Excellent condition and unrestored Motif: Winter landscap...

Beautiful Le Verre Français oblong "Chicory" vase, France 1920s. Signed with the tricolour blue, white and red "berlingot". Dimensions in cm ( H x D ) : 28 x 13.5 Very good conditi...

Rare Riessner and Kessel Amphora Ceramic Art Nouveau Pottery Basket A charming and unusual piece from the well known ceramic factory Amphora of Riessner & Kessel in Turn-Teplitz. Made in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the area called Bohemia, now referred to as the Czech Republic. In the form of a basket shape decorated with simulated ‘jewels’ of color. It displays a number of stamps and factory marks: Austria, a circular mark with double headed eagle which states Imperial Amphora and an impressed crown. It has two different Slavic townscapes including city walls and magical rooftops on each facade along with numerous star motifs depicted in different enamel colors. The firm’s most important works were made between 1894 and 1904, they were almost all in the Art Nouveau style with plants, animals, mythical creatures and, as in this case, an uncommon and desirable romantic medieval Bohemian landscape. A very quant and rare collector’s item or unique home accessory. Would go with many of our vintage and antique one-of-a-kind cushions and pillows. A subpart ornament paired...

1920s Frosted Glass Cubist Vase – In the Style of Ruba Rombic and Kopp Modernistic, with Original “Chypre” Label This striking frosted glass vase, dating to the late 1920s, is a bol...

This large antique and ornately decorated ewer is unsigned, but believed to have been made by the Nippon Company of Japan in approximately 1900 in an Anglo-Japanese style. The pitche...

Made in Italy, 1910s. This pitcher vase is made in transparent pagliesco blown glass and the external surface is slightly ribbed. It features a black Murano glass handle. This is ...

A Large Riessner, Stellmacher & Kessel large Amphora vase decorated with water lilies; attributed to Paul Dachsel, Turn-Teplitz, Bohemia; c. 1903; n...

Small lilac vase like an Amphora.

Jerome Massier Fils Majolica figural vase which features a colourful pheasant stood in front of corn/wheat. Colouration: green, purple, teal blue are predominant. The piece bears mak...

Dramatic multi color decor, cobalt and orange, in hand blown splatter glass vase in the Art Deco style. This design for vases is often called 'Pique ...

Terracotta vase. France, early 20th century.