Ceramic Brown and Gold Ashtray or Vide Poche in a Circa 1960 France

This Ceramic Ashtray or Vide Poche, has a shell Shape. The colors are the Blue and Yellow. It has been made in Italy Circa 1960

This Ceramic Ashtray or Vide Poche, has a shell Shape. The colors are the Red and white. It has been made in Italy Circa 1960

This vide poche or ashtray in in Glass. It has been done circa 1970, in France.

Ceramic Blue and Red Ashtray or Vide Poche Circa 1960 Italy

Gorgeous ceramic ashtray or vide-poche in a stunning blue glazed (Rimini Blu) color. This vibrant ceramic item was designed by Aldo Londi and hand-craf...

Onyx Ashtray or Vide Poche, French Mid-Century Modern. This ashtray was handcarved into a block of onyx gemstone, in the 1970s. Onyx belongs to the agate category and is a mineral c...

Amazing round ashtray or vide-poche in granite effect ceramic and brass by the Italian designer Tommaso Barbi. Made in Italy in the 1970s. Tommaso Barbi's original label is s...

A beautiful Art Nouveau Gouda pottery ashtray. Wonderfully colorful floral hand painted design, from Holland. This well made decorative object can also be used as a key holder/vide poche. Signed Dalia Konin Klyk, Coedewaalem, Gouda, Holland and numbered on bottom. Measures: 4 3/4 in. diameter x 2 3/8 in. high Other interesting information about this form of pottery: There isn’t a factory called Gouda Pottery; the pottery is called that because the main factories were in Gouda. Gouda (pronounced ‘how-da’) is the generic term we use for all the pottery factories in Holland – all Dutch pottery other than Delftware, that is. The area around Gouda had clay to make pots, which is why most of the factories settled there. A lot of the clay also came from England. The Dutch started producing clay pipes...