Late 20th Century Vases

Unusually large scale Murano art glass vase, having blue ground with multi color millefiore highlights. Nice modernist cylindrical form, impressi...

Val Saint-Lambert, A. Collard. Collard was chief of the workshop at Val Saint-Lambert Signed: Studio Crystal 133/ 1995. The piece is in excellent c...

Substantial perfectly shaped heart vase in smoothly curved ruby red Murano glass with clear glass surround. A wonderful standalone objet d'art as well as a flower vase. Signed Murano...

Large organic postmodern porcelain vase by Barbara Brenner for Rosenthal, 1980s.

Beautiful, colorful collection of 12 satin pencil neck shape vases designed by Il maestro Carlo Moretti. Assorted sizes from 10 to 18 inches high.

Presenting a collector's piece of extraordinary beauty and history: a masterfully crafted blown glass vase from the renowned island of Murano by the acclaimed Italian artist Lino Tag...

Huge vase or umbrella stand by Tommaso Barbi for B Ceramiche (signed on the bottom). Conditions are very good, expect for a scratch visible in the photos.

Article: Fat lava art vase, heavy Brutalist glaze Producer: Scheurich, Germany Decade: 1970s This original vintage vase was produced in the 1970s in Ger...

Outstanding large crystal vase from Val Saint Lambert, "mulette" model, in a gorgeous soft pink color René Delvenne concept, blueberry sommerso technique. Mid-century modern vase, ma...

Twenty-seven woods for a Chinese artificial flower vase omega by Ettore Sottsass, Edited by Design Gallery Milano, 1995. Limited edition ...

"Incamiciato" Italian Art glass vase by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini. Clear, white and green. With original label. Signed: Venini Italia '89.

Designed and manufactured by the Baldelli Family of Italy, this saucer like vase has a Postmodern design over a blue gray finish, circa 1980s.

A beige-glazed ceramic vase, designed and produced in Sweden, c. 1970s.

Hand turned and hand carved "flame" wood vase. Vase measures 8" by 4.25" signed Ivy, Cocobolo. In very good vintage condition.

A fossil stone vase designed and produced in Gotland, Sweden, c. 1970s.

Centerpiece model "Baja" by Lino Sabattini in Silvered Metal, produced in '70s. Very good condition, as never used, fully original. Presence of the signature with name of the model.

Beautiful handcrafted controlled bubble floriform clear cased art glass vase or votive or paperweight. Beautiful Bohemian blue blown glass small vase or candle holder made in heavy thick art glass in a ruffled tulip shape. This large votive or vase has a beautiful blend of blues with a clear glass outer and bottom. Decorative art glass hand blown with controlled bubble paperweight...

Heavy beautiful art glass Vase in hues of green, blue and bronze dust with Nautical Motif. Comes from the Eastern European Polish Nation. Beautifully crafted and flowing color brilli...

A Contemporary Art Glass large Crackle Blue Vase "Model Rock" circa 1998 by "Kate Hume Interior" Known for her work as an interior designer, Kate Hume began...

Cylinder shaped shiny white porcelain vase from the Rainbow series designed by Bertil Vallien for Rörstrand in the 1980s. Swirling pastel lines on two sides in mint, rose, red, light...

Karim Rashid for Leonardo Germany Limited Edition New Move Silver Glass Vase, ca 1999. Measures 8” high, base 3-1/2” wide, and mouth 2-1/4” wide. There is a small scratch of silver finish/coating on glass (we've posted an image of the interior and exterior at the area of the scratch). There is also a faint area of small blemishes at the base See images for more detail. If there’s one thing karim rashid hates, it’s trophies. The 40-year-old designer has more than 40 of them, from big international ones like the 1999 George Nelson Award (given for breakthrough furniture design), to quaint little Canadian ones like Designer of the Year 2001. “It came with a little pin,” says Rashid, “and a … a … very nice …” He tries to describe the shape of the award with his hands but gives up. “It’s time that whole trophy thing changes. It’s kitsch. They’re functionless things.” Rashid was asked to design one for the DaimlerChrysler Design Awards (he’s a past recipient). “I was going to make it electro-luminescent. When the lights go out, it has a sensor so it turns on,” he says. But the trophy-as-night-light, a reminder of one’s worth in the darkest hours, didn’t impress Chrysler’s people. He never heard back. They may well be gnawing their knuckles over that decision right now because Rashid’s conquest of the realm of product design is all but complete. A lush and suitably worshipful retrospective of his work, Karim Rashid: I Want to Change the World (Thames & Hudson; 249 pages), hits Australasian bookstores this month. There was a crowd around anything with his stamp on it-including stools, chess sets and storage units-at the recent International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City. More than 2 million North Americans are throwing their rubbish into a receptacle he designed, while 750,000 or so park their rears on one of his cheapo plastic chairs. It’s not just in North America. He has been dubbed Der Poet des Plastiks by a retailer in Germany and the prolifico progettista Americano by Interni magazine in Italy. Trophies he may despise, but accolades Rashid can handle. The problem with being the Most Famous Industrial Designer in All the Americas is that you’re still less famous than someone who got kicked off Survivor the first week. Most people cannot name the designer of one nonclothing item in their homes. Rashid, who was born in Egypt, raised in Canada and is living in New York City, is more than happy to bring an end to this anonymity. Not just because he wants to be famous, although there seems to be that, but because he believes design should be a bigger part of the social discourse. “I have been almost alone in this country, trying to make design become a public subject,” he says. His chief method of persuasion is to make the banal better so that people notice design more. He likes creating expensive furniture and perfume bottles just fine, but what really gets his juices going is the everyday: manhole covers, a cremation urn, disposable cigarette lighters, garbage bins, salt and pepper shakers, plastic pens. “I want American Standard to come to me to do the toilets for Home Depot,” he says. In many ways Rashid is more like an itinerant industrial evangelist than a designer. He traveled 200 days last year. He claims to have been to every major mall in America, where he signs his products in high-end design stores and trolls about observing humans interacting with the objects around them. He has taught at design schools for more than a decade, and his work has been in 11 art shows in the past eight months. But mostly he has proselytized the corporate barbarians. And like any good missionary, he has learned to speak the language of his converts. One of the first things he does when he gets new clients is tour their factories to understand their manufacturing capacity. He also visits the retail outlets to see how the product might be displayed. And he really knows how to sell, especially himself. “I work with a guy in L.A.,” says Rashid, declining to name him. “He made a lot of really bad furniture. His business was hand-to-mouth. I proposed seven or eight projects. The pieces I’ve done for him have already become iconic.” The subtitle of his monograph, I Want to Change the World, is not ironic, just characteristically immodest. “Most industrial-design studios try to interpret a client’s needs and come up with a style,” says Paul Rowan, co-founder of housewares manufacturer Umbra. “Karim has his own personal vision.” It helps that Rashid’s vision incorporates things that Rowan needs, like a design that will stack and ship easily and that creates little waste in the making. Rashid’s father was a set designer for Canadian TV who rearranged the family furniture every Sunday. So perhaps it was ordained that Karim would grow up to become one of the pioneers in non-cheesy plastic, making objects that have energy and personality but aren’t wacky. He, like many of his generation, has championed the could-only-be-designed-with-computers blob. But his is not just a blob for its own sake. His Oh Chair...

Beautiful Italian Murano vase, Thick smoked blown glass 1970.  

Article: ceramic pottery vase. Origin: Germany. Designer: Heinz Siery. Producer: Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany. Decade: 1970s. This original vi...

Article: OP art porcelain vase Producer: Heinrich Ceramics, Germany Decade: 1970s Description: this original vintage OP art vase was produced and designed by Heinrich cera...

Bob Parks (1943 - 2017) "Horses of the Desert" number 22 of 35 Bronze Oversize Vase. In excellent vintage condition. Bob Parks was an absolute master of bronze sculpting. His pieces ...

Beautiful post-modern minimalist style cylindrical vase designed by Mexican designer, Victor Carranza, and manufactured in Japan by Mikasa. This vase h...

A lovely opalescent glass vase designed by Larry Laslo in the 1980s for Mikasa. Very heavy glass with a pronounced beautiful swirl and colors that shift depending on the vantage poin...

A gorgeous example of Murano glass titled Cabaret. This Seguso vase in hombre purples includes a two rare designs in white and black blown in the glass. Signed and dated 1999 Meas...

Venini best pastel colors and frosted Murano Glass vase made by Murano Glass Sommerso. Blown mellow pastel colored glass and ultimately surroun...

Beautiful glass vase designed by Paola Navone, manufactured by Sottsass Associati for Egizia. Made in 1998. The vase decoration is done...

Stunning Pair of Modernist Fluted Form Brass Flower Vases with removable Inner Flower Holder Liner Designed By Lorin Marsh In The 1970's. Great iconic modern industrial design. Wonde...

Pair of modern Italian vases in Murano glass amber and gold in two different size, in very excellent original condition, entirely realized handcrafted and handblown in the Venice Mur...

Article: OP Art porcelain vase set Producer: Royal Bavaria KPM Germany   This original vintage OP Art vase set was produced in th...

Just a beautiful vase in the Carnival style colors murano glass vase.

Beautiful studio pottery vase made by Erik Bright. Dated January 26th 1996 Black slip glazed stoneware with sgraffito design Signed and with an inscription depicting an appreciati...

Fantastic looking, large (height of 16.1") pink Murano glass vase out of the renowed workshops on the little island in Venice/ Italy. Elaborately made in the late 20th century around 1970, this elaborately handcrafted pink Murano vase...

A fine Vase designed by Laura de Santillana for her uncles furnace as a part of the series Laura - sommersi oro in the 1980ties. This is an early execution from the same decade. Blue...

Beautiful vase in solid brass, the typical tubular shape by Pierre Forssell for Skultuna Bruk. Designed in mid-1900s, this one is manufactured in 1980s. Beautiful patina, darkened...

Italian 1980s Post-Modern Vase in Alabaster Attributed to Alessandro Mendini Italy 1980s

Crystalline vase Snowflake collection V&S gallery , 1980's

Pair of murano hand blown glass vases made of opaline glass by the Italian artist glassblower Costantini. The body is decorated with roun...

Bitossi ball vase, stripes, purple blue, white, red, signed. Chunky medium scale lavender glazed spherical vase with tight hard edge stripes in blue,...

Article: Fat lava art vase super rare decor Producer: Scheurich, Germany Decade: 1950s This original vintage vase was produced in the 1950s in Germany by Scheurich. It i...

A striking studio pottery vase with a cobalt blue glaze, featuring a bulbous body and a tapered cylindrical foot. Measuring approximately 17.5 inches tall with a 10-inch diameter at ...

Pre-owned goods are exempt from import duties for U.S. customers. Therefore, no import tariffs will be applicable to your purchase. Professor Monica Grandi, Italian ceramicist. Uni...

Artglass Bowl Sjogras by Goran Stroemgren for Art Glassworks Urshult Sweden A rare 'Sjogras' (seegras) art glass bowl in Graal technique designed by Goran Stromgren for Konstglashyt...

Lavender Art Deco Bubble Vase. France, circa 1970.

A very rare and extraordinary Postmodern Vase by Thomas Porzellan, Atelier Collection, a Division of Rosenthal. Made in Germany in the 1980s this obj...

Spectacular Murano Glicine vase designed by Gae Aulenti for Vistosi, circa 1980's. The vase was executed in polychrome green tones, the base is round, with a domed top. This exam...

Wonderful intense handcrafted tall stoneware vessel or vase. Good size, just over a foot tall. Heavy. No chips, no cracks.

This stunning vintage terracotta floor vase is a true statement piece, showcasing the artistry of the 70s and 80s Postmodern MCM (Mid-Century Modern) design. Crafted from heavy terra...

Strikingly sculptural, this handmade ceramic vessel features a bold asymmetric form finished in a matte glaze that shifts from sun-washed terracotta to pale turquoise and misty sky b...

Article: Fat lava art vase Producer: Jopeko, Germany Design: Nr. 7101-32 Decade: 1970s Description: This original vintage vase was produced in th...

This extra-small Turkish vase with one handle and a stripe is from Avanos: a town located in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, which once ran through the historic Silk Road trading ro...

Organic postmodern porcelain vase by Barbara Brenner for Rosenthal, 1980s.   

Dame Lucie Rie (1902 - 1995) ‘Bottle Vase’ with Flaring Rim Stoneware, blue / white volcanic glaze ’LR’ seal mark to base Circa 1980 Size: 27.5cm high, 14cm wide, 12cm deep - 1...

Glass vase in orange shades with silver animals decoration. Beautiful piece made by Ettore Sottsass forEgizia. Italy, 1980 The vase has its original label.

Incredibly graphic post-modern ikebana ceramic vase by known U.S. artist Libby Ware. The vessel is cylinder like evoking a variety of ideas. The deep dark g...

Pre-owned goods are exempt from import duties for U.S. customers. Therefore, no import tariffs will be applicable to your purchase. French ceramicist. Large ceramic vase. Organic s...

This is a Rimini blue vase from the 1970s. Made in Italy. It was designed by Aldo Londi and produced by Flavia Montelupo, also known as Bitossi. Bitos...