Vintage Ceramic Cigar Ashtray from the Stork Club

This stunning abstract ceramic sculpture by James Marshall features a minimalist form with a richly textured glaze in a vivid orange color. Executed in 2006, it is fixed to a black s...

Here is an extraordinarily rare piece with fantastic provenance– this oversize version of Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona daybed is 16 feet in length and custom fabricated of fiberglass and steel. You would not know that it is fiberglass without touching it. The level of detail and realism is stunning. It’s like an artwork using the principal of transference of material– when an object appears to be made of one expected material, but is really crafted of something totally different, often incongruent with one's expectations. The reason fiberglass was used to make this daybed is that it was created for use in the lobby of Mies van der Rohe’s IBM building at 330 N. Wabash in Chicago. Mies often specified that the public spaces in the buildings he designed be furnished with tables and seating also of his design. In the 1990s the owner of the IBM building hired Chicago designer Judy Niedermaier to decorate the public spaces. Having seen ordinary Barcelona chairs and sofas suffer the abuse of high-traffic spaces see with hundreds of people using them on a daily basis, she opted to something different that would hold up under extreme wear. Interestingly, this was not the first time Niedermaier employed fiberglass in her design work, nor would it be her last. Her firm had used fiberglass for store displays, pots and mannequins in some of their prop and merchandise display work, and then in the early 2000s with the famous downtown Chicago outdoor art projects “Cows on Parade” and “Suite Home Chicago” (fiberglass outdoor furniture...

This strikingly beautiful lamp has a base of ceramic decorated with a ivory glaze that has an all-over sgraffito design. The combination of the shape of the lamp body and the hand-ap...

Wonderful table lamp by noted artist and ceramicist Rita Sargen-Simon. The elegant form features an abstract design in low relief on a textured background. This lamp was purchased th...

Large Vintage Brown Round Ceramic California Studio Cigar Ashtray Catchall Large vintage 1960s brown round ceramic cigar ashtray. Vintage Pottery Craft Ashtray Tobacciana Collectible Drip Pottery dish. Vintage Pottery Craft Ashtray Catchall Decorative Bowl. Handcrafted ceramic ashtray, this beautiful pottery ashtray catchall has a star design center with sides of stoneware, great design and colors in dark brown, beige and caramel drip. Stamped underneath: Pottery craft 401. Vintage stoneware Mid...

Absolutely gorgeous mid-century French crystal cigar ashtray, circa 1960s. Not only versatile as a vide-poche or trinket dish but stylish and beautiful. Clean modernist lines that w...

Elevate your smoking experience with this exquisite ceramic ashtray by the renowned Italian artist Dante Baldelli, crafted in the 1970s. Signed by the artist, this ashtray is a testa...

Traditional design atop this unique Ashtray. Maker mark on the bottom, stating that was made in Holland. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured. Dimensions. 5 W ; 4 1/2 D...