Rookwood ceramic vase in blue, 1920

Chinese provincial porcelain trumpet form vase on a flaring foot. This diminutively scaled vase is decorated fully in the round in cobalt under glaze blue with blooming peony bough and a magpie fluttering on a branch. This vignette bears auspicious symbols for beauty, wealth and joy. The peony is the queen of all flowers in China and it symbolizes wealth and beauty. The magpie is a harbinger of happiness, thus its name "bird of happiness." There is a tiny ding on the flared mouth rim and also on the foot ring. The dark spots of various sizes represent ashes that landed on the glaze in the firing process which supports the age of the vase when all porcelain objects were stacked high and fired in a wood kiln. On the underside is a double cobalt ring...

Japanese Sumida Gawa pottery vase decorated in relief with two boys gathering seashells. The pottery is named after the Sumida River where the pottery center was located until reloca...

Chinese baluster form porcelain vase in a "powder blue" glaze. The vase has been drilled at the base, electrified, and mounted on a hardwood stand. Chinese, Late Qing Dynasty, 1880-1...

Chinese porcelain mai-ping form vase with standing rim over a bulbous shoulder tapering to a flared foot. The overall decoration is finely executed cobalt blue delineation of the tra...

1970's Ceramic vase in blue enamel stoneware and "Balustre" form Signed by the French ceramicist Pol Chambost (1906-1983).  

Superb large, highly decorative Art Deco vase. Léon Pointu (1879-1942) was a French ceramicist active in the early 20th century, known for his stoneware and earthenware pieces in the...

Cerulean Blue Art Deco Vessel by Pilkington Royal Lancastrian Pottery. England, circa 1920.

Le vase Accolay en céramique grès émaillé bleu, produit en France dans les années 1970, est une œuvre emblématique de l'artisanat de cette époque. Représentant l'esprit créatif de la...