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Serving Bowls For Sale
Alice in Wonderland Bowls, Handmade in Italy, Luxury Gold Design, 2021
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
Our artisan's pieces are a dream come true, as in Alice in Wonderland. Ceramic bowls are completely hand-crafted and painted with love and care.
Bowls are available in different co...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Serving Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
$672 Sale Price / set
25% Off
Sky Blue Pottery Bowl with Ruffled Edge
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful sky-blue or turquoise blue pottery bowl with ruffled edge. Great as a standalone piece, as a catch-all, or serving bowl. Dimensions: 9.88...
Category
Late 20th Century Serving Bowls
Materials
Pottery
Malossol Caviar Bowl
Located in Milan, IT
A luxurious container conceived for a likewise luxe delicacy, this bowl is a precious piece that cannot be missed in the most exclusive tableware collections. Only interrupted by a d...
Category
2010s Italian Serving Bowls
Materials
Crystal
$2,674 / item
Green Lettuce or Cabbage Leaf Serving or Dip Bowl Trompe l'Oeil Style, 5 Avail
Located in New York, NY
**There are five (5) green lettuce bowls available, each sold separately, as per listing.
A vintage green and white lettuce or cabbage leaf serving or dip bowl, in the Palm Beach a...
Category
Late 20th Century Portuguese Serving Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Mid-Century Modern French Ceramic Large Bowls by Albert Thiry, 1960s
By Albert Thiry
Located in Camblanes et Meynac, FR
Pair of Mid-Century Modern French ceramic large bowls by Albert Thiry, 1960s
Two beautiful glazed ceramic bowls. One has a blue thistle p...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Serving Bowls
Materials
Enamel
$420 Sale Price / set
64% Off
Sterling Silver Tiffany Bowl
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a sterling silver bowl by Tiffany & Company. The workmanship is beautiful and the etched design is pristine. Each leaf and curve are crisp and have not faded over ti...
Category
1930s American Vintage Serving Bowls
Materials
Sterling Silver
Handcrafted Antique Moroccan Couscous Bowl from Fez, 19th Century
Located in North Hollywood, CA
An under-glazed painted pottery bowl with abstract naive design, blue, ochre, brown.
Moroccan antique pottery bowl of deep rounded form with flattened rim rising on a low ring foot, hand-painted on the exterior with black decoration, the interior in polychrome painted, having abstract design in blue and ochre with turquoise accents, crack lure.
Handcrafted antique ceramic dish, Fez, Morocco, Circa 1880, Museum quality piece.
Antique Mokhfia (couscous bowl...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Serving Bowls
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Set of Four Art Deco Crystal Scottie Salt Cellars
Located in Chicago, IL
A chic set of four Art Deco crystal salt cellars with reverse etched Scottie dogs and ribbed sides. Perfect for keeping salt and pepper at the ready on yo...
Category
1920s Art Deco Vintage Serving Bowls
Materials
Crystal
$296 Sale Price
25% Off
Large Blue Glass Bowl, 1950s
Located in PARIS, FR
Large Circular Bowl in Turquoise-Tinted Glass, crafted in Sweden in the 1950s. In good condition.
DV1944
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Serving Bowls
Materials
Glass
Delfini Caviar Bowl
By Braganti
Located in Milan, IT
This magnificent bowl with lid and base is entirely made in silver and was specifically designed to store and serve caviar. Its Classic shape is adorned with Renaissance-inspired dec...
Category
2010s Italian Serving Bowls
Materials
Crystal, Silver
$5,842 / item
Johnny Mattsson, Wooden Sculpture / Bowl, Scandinavian Modern
Located in Stockholm, SE
John (Johnny) Filip Mattsson, born 1906 in the city of Gävle, Sweden. Died in 1970. Mattsson was mostly know for his wooden sculptures / Ölgås, seen in SAS commercials. Parts of his ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Serving Bowls
Materials
Wood
Tallois & Mayence 1885 Paris Covered Dish With Plate In .950 Sterling Silver
By A.M. Tallois & Mayence, Paris 1
Located in Miami, FL
Covered server dish with server plate, designed by A. M. Tallois & Mayence.
Fabulous serving bowl-dish suite, created in Paris France by the famous silver...
Category
1880s French Neoclassical Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
$4,198 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Set of 12 St. Louis, Hand Blown Crystal Footed Dessert Compotes or "Supremes"
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This perfect set of 12 hand blown crystal footed dessert compotes or Supremes is the perfect compliment to any table setting. The neutral clear crystal is embellished with an engrave...
Category
1920s French Vintage Serving Bowls
Materials
Crystal
White Lilac Marble Eclipse Bowl
Located in Eindhoven, NB
Introducing our exquisite White Marble "Eclipse" Bowl, a fusion of elegance and functionality. Crafted from luxurious white marble with deep purple and lilac veining, this stunning b...
Category
2010s Dutch Modern Serving Bowls
Materials
Marble
$352 / item
KPM Covered Bowl on a Pedestal With Raised Fruits and Roses and Painted Bouquets
Located in Boston, MA
This is a very beautiful KPM covered bowl on a pedestal. The cover has four gorgeous hand-painted bouquets of flowers. The handle of the cover is decorated with raised gold cherries ...
Category
Early 20th Century German Romantic Serving Bowls
Materials
Porcelain
Art Deco Bowl with Fruit Attachment, 1930s
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Czechoslovakia
Made of cut glass and metal
The attachment has an aging patina
Original condition
Category
1930s Czech Art Deco Vintage Serving Bowls
Materials
Metal
Set of three Orange-Red Enameled Bowls by Kaj Franck for Finel, Finland, 1960s
By Finel, Kaj Franck
Located in Steenwijk, NL
A very nice set of three red-orange enameled bowls made by Kaj Franck for Finel, made in Finland in the 1960s. These bowls are in a very good condition with some signs of age and use...
Category
1660s Finnish Mid-Century Modern Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Enamel
19th Century Gothic Cut Crystal Irish Footed Bowl
Located in Hudson, NY
This Gothic revival cut crystal bowl is of a good size and simple yet impressive design. One of the major export elemnts from Ierland in the 19th century, cut crystal from this count...
Category
19th Century Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Crystal
19th Century Spong Ware Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th century sponge ware bowl. Beautiful stripes and pattern on this bowl show age of wear consistent with age and use. Shows some dings but in great ...
Category
19th Century American Other Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Pottery
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
Hand-Carved Agate Bowl // 8 Lb.
Located in New York, NY
This handsome deep bowl has been hand-carved and hand-polished out of one piece of genuine agate and features concentric blue-gray banding run through with quartz for a beautiful con...
Category
2010s Unknown Serving Bowls
Materials
Agate
Loetz Art Nouveau Basket Whit Details of Irradiated Glass, 1930s
By Loetz Glass
Located in Verviers, BE
Loetz Art Nouveau Basket whit details of irradiated glass 1900s
Beautifully decorated whit Irradiated glass
Rare to find with original condition
The piece is in good condition and a real beauty...
Category
1930s French Art Nouveau Vintage Serving Bowls
Materials
Art Glass
Impressively Large Villeroy & Boch Porcelain Bowl Centerpiece
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Impressive in scale, very large lovely antique Villeroy & Boch bowl.
1860
Germany
Some restoration
Category
19th Century German Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Porcelain
Ceramic Bowl, Ø 40cm x H 20cm Handmade in Italy 2021, Choose Your Pattern
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
For more than 30 years this artist has revolutionized the way of thinking about stone. Their artisan techniques are the result of careful research and deep knowledge of the subject: ...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Serving Bowls
Materials
Lava
$591 Sale Price / item
25% Off
Reed & Barton Sterling Silver Plate Serving Bowls, Set of 3
Located in New York, NY
A set of three (3) graduated sterling silver plate over brass serving bowls in the Minimalist style, by Reed & Barton, circa late-20th century, USA. The sterling silver plate really ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Minimalist Serving Bowls
Materials
Sterling Silver, Brass
Victorian Wedgwood Lobster Salad Bowl 1878
By Wedgwood
Located in Paris, FR
Original Victorian Wedgwood Lobster Salad Bowl. Cream background earthenware the bowl is decorated all around with printed and hand-painted seaweeds inside and outside the bowl. The ...
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Silver Plate
$2,811 Sale Price
20% Off
Sugar Pot in Silver Metal by Christofle, France, XX Century
By Christofle
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
his sugar pot is in silver metal. It has been made in France in the 20th century, by the wellknown manufactureer Christofle.
Category
20th Century French American Classical Serving Bowls
Materials
Silver Plate
Mortar and Pestle in Solid Grey Granite
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Solid mortar and pestle made in solid grey granite.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Serving Bowls
Materials
Granite
Art Glass Vase. Style Johann Loetz Witwe, Klostermühle, around 1930s.
By Loetz Glass
Located in Verviers, BE
Glass vases. Loetz. Johann Loetz Witwe, Klostermühle, Around 1930s.
Colorless glass with soda fusions in the intermediate layer.
Loetz Art Nouveau Vase
Rare to find with original c...
Category
1930s Austrian Art Nouveau Vintage Serving Bowls
Materials
Art Glass
33 Piece German Porcelain and Gold Greek Key Dinnerware in the Manner of Versace
By Versace
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An impressive set of German Porcelain dinner ware - The Hollywood Regency Sophisticated Greek Key pattern in Gold will give any table the look of...
Category
20th Century German Modern Serving Bowls
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen Blue Fluted Mega Bowl. 21st Century
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Royal Copenhagen blue fluted mega bowl. 21st Century. Model number 572.
Measures: 12 x 6 cm.
In excellent condition.
Stamped.
1st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swedish Serving Bowls
Materials
Porcelain
$160 Sale Price
20% Off
Art Nouveau Punch Bowl with Spoon Enameled Details and Gold Paint Finish
By Loetz Glass
Located in Verviers, BE
Beautifully decorated with thick enameled green and gold paint decoration.
Rare to find with original condition spoon and covered bowl complete.
The piece is in good condition and a real beauty...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Art Glass
Vintage White and Beige Decorative Murano Glass Mini Vase, Italy, 1960s
Located in 05-080 Hornowek, PL
Decorative white and beige murano glass vase from Italy. Vase is in very good vintage condition, no damage or cracks. Original glass. Beautiful piece for every interior! Only one uni...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Serving Bowls
Materials
Ceramic, Glass, Murano Glass
$57 Sale Price
20% Off
Blue Glass Bowl Lino Tagliapietra for Effetre International, Murano, Italy, 1986
Located in Hausmannstätten, AT
A beautiful light blue Italian glass bowl by Lino Tagliapietra for Effetre International, Murano, 1986.
This hand-blown Murano glass obje...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Serving Bowls
Materials
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Boho Chic Tiger Serving Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fun ceramic Boho Chic serving bowl of a tiger face paint and motifs. Great addition to your bar and parties. This is part of a 4 series animal bowls, find them on our listings and co...
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Serving Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
Large Teakwood Serving Bowl by Jens Harald Quistgaard, Denmark, 1960s
Located in Odense, DK
Large teakwood bowl by Danish designer Jens Harald Quistgaard / IHQ. Produced by Quistgaards own company "Dansk" in the 1960s. Made in best quality solid...
Category
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Serving Bowls
Materials
Teak
Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Bowl 238a
By Georg Jensen
Located in Hellerup, DK
A sterling silver decorative small bowl, design #238a by Georg Jensen from circa 1917. Handcrafted with intricate details, the basket is raised on limb-like branches, with a large fl...
Category
1910s Danish Art Nouveau Vintage Serving Bowls
Materials
Sterling Silver
Marble Mortar from 18th Century
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This nice mortar is made of white marble. This is a French work from 18th Century
Category
1780s French Louis XVI Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Marble
$1,195 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Signed Tiffany Vine Pattern Sterling Silver Bowl
Located in Savannah, GA
This delightful vine pattern sterling silver bowl by Tiffany features a daisy motif around the top side rim, and is monogrammed Margaret Foster Smith 1893.
The piece is marked on the...
Category
1890s American Late Victorian Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Sterling Silver
$938 Sale Price
24% Off
Mid Century Green Decorative Glass Flower Plate, Italy, 1960s
Located in 05-080 Hornowek, PL
Decorative green flower glass plate from Italy. Plate is in very good vintage condition, no damage or cracks. Original glass. Beautiful piece for every interior! Only one unique piece.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Serving Bowls
Materials
Ceramic, Glass
$210 Sale Price
20% Off
Blue, White Porcelain Gilt Lotus Flower Jingdezhen Serving Bowls, Teacups
Located in Lomita, CA
This is a special collection of blue and white rice grain porcelain serving bowls and Chinese style teacups. They are beautiful in red, blue and white translucent rice grain pattern with the lotus flower motif. The items are assembled and the teacups are older than the 1970s and 1960s bowls with an antique Chinese mark...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Serving Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Samuel Alcock Footed Comport, Melted Snow, Periwinkle Lilac, Flowers, ca 1822
Located in London, GB
A footed rectangular central comport or centre piece, periwinkle / lilac ground with melted snow and holly leaf borders and flowers, a large pink wild rose painting...
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Porcelain
Victorian Large Copper Cooking Pot, 19th Century
Located in Southall, GB
Victorian large copper cooking pot circa 1890.
Beautiful example of a large cooking pot, which are now popular to use as fireside log bins....
Category
19th Century English Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Copper
$503 Sale Price
20% Off
Aldebaran Glass Fruit Bowl, by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis Milano Collection
Located in La Morra, Cuneo
The Aldebaran Glass Fruit Bowl was designed for Memphis in 1983 by Ettore Sottsass. This bowl features a tapering cylindrical shape with three green handles, with the side decorated ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Serving Bowls
Materials
Glass
Twelve Spode Neo-Classical Greek Pattern Blue Soup Plates
By Spode
Located in Downingtown, PA
Spode Neo-classical Greek pattern blue soup plates,
Refreshment for Phliasian Horseman,
Set of twelve (12)
Early-19th century
The Spode Greek pattern ...
Category
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Vintage Richard Ginori Serving Bowl Italy
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Beautiful Richard Ginori serving bowl. Classic design with blue banded floral motif. Superb timeless craftsmanship.
Category
20th Century Italian Serving Bowls
Materials
Porcelain
Large 19th Century Nazari-Style Spanish Ceramic Plate
Located in Madrid, ES
A magnificent ceramic plate measuring 47 cm in diameter and 10 cm in height, crafted in 19th-century Spain in the Nazari-Arabic style influenced by Al-Andalus culture. The piece show...
Category
1880s Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
Ginori Luke Edward Hall's "Il Viaggio di Nettuno" Set of Two Small Bowls, 2023
Located in Cagliari, IT
The "Il Viaggi di Nettuno" pattern is inspired by Luke Edward Hall’s love of Greco-Roman mythology, and particularly Neptune, the Roman god of the sea, and...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Serving Bowls
Materials
Porcelain
Meissen Reticulated Bowl With Flower Bouquet & Accents of Butterflies & Insects
Located in Boston, MA
This is a beautiful oval Meissen reticulated bowl hand painted with a central painting of a flower bouquet and accents of butterflies and insects. ...
Category
1890s German Rococo Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Porcelain
Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Art Deco Bowl #809B
Located in Hellerup, DK
A highly sought-after early Georg Jensen sterling silver bowl, design #809b by Arno Malinowski from 1937. Supported by a round foot, the bowl showcases a striking fish motif, complet...
Category
1930s Danish Art Nouveau Vintage Serving Bowls
Materials
Sterling Silver
English Majolica Bowl with Leaf Circa 1890
Located in Austin, TX
English Majolica Bowl with Leaf on a basketweave background Circa 1890.
Category
1890s English Rustic Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
Dessert Service, Coupe and 6 Vintage Crystal Cups by Pierre D'Avesn, France
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Crystal dessert service consisting of a goblet and 6 cups, "honeycomb" model, designed in France by Pierre D'Avesn in the 1930s.
Their delicate curves, the purity of their Material a...
Category
Early 20th Century French Serving Bowls
Materials
Glass
Serving Bowl by Franciscan Fine China
Located in San Diego, CA
Midcentury serving bowl by Franciscan Fine China. The color is gray-green with stylized tree line in center. Off-white color throughout the botto...
Category
20th Century North American Serving Bowls
Materials
Porcelain
$220 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Vintage Light Purple Decorative Glass Plates, Bowls, Italy, 1960s
Located in 05-080 Hornowek, PL
Beautiful decorative light purple glass plates/bowls from Italy. Plates are in very good vintage condition, no damage or cracks. Original glass. Uni...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Serving Bowls
Materials
Ceramic, Glass
$57 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Georg Jensen USA Traditional American Colonial Revere Bowl
By Georg Jensen
Located in New York, NY
American Colonial sterling silver bowl. Retailed by Georg Jensen USA in New York. Revere form with Tapering sides, flared rim, and curved bottom; step...
Category
Mid-20th Century American American Colonial Serving Bowls
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Meji Period Imari Japanese Porcelain Bowl Arita, 19th C
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Sharing with you this lovely Japanese Imari bowl from the Meiji period. The intricate floral designs on the exterior, including the graceful chrysanthemums, symbolize longevity, resi...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Porcelain
Square Meissen Purple Indian Serving Bowl
Located in Boston, MA
I would like to offer you this beautiful Meissen purple Indian serving bowl in this unusual square form. It has detailed paintings of pink flowe...
Category
1960s German Rococo Vintage Serving Bowls
Materials
Porcelain
Italian Maiolica Cup Ferretti Lodi, circa 1770 - 1780
Located in Milano, IT
Maiolica puerperal cup
Antonio Ferretti Manufacture
Lodi, Circa 1770 - 1780
Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire).
It measures: 4.3 x 6.8 x 5.3 in (11 x 17,5 x 13,5 cm)
Weight: 0.78 lb (358 g)
State of conservation: some closed pass-through fêlures on the cup, barely visible on the outside. Some use chips on the edge of the lid, two of which are more marked.
From about the mid-sixteenth century, the puerperal soup tureen or puerperal cup became one of the most popular wedding gifts in central Italy. As an auspicious symbol, it replaced the birth table (“desco da parto”) which, on the occasion of high-ranking marriages, from the thirteenth century, had been painted by famous artists, especially in Tuscany.
In France this same tureen is called "écuelle de mariée", as it is given to spouses as a sign of fertility.
During the eighteenth century this custom spread even outside Italy to all social levels. Depending on availability and rank, it was made of different materials: precious metals, maiolica, porcelain, glass, pewter, etc.
Beginning in the mid-twentieth century, the custom of this symbolic homage gradually disappeared, although famous designers such as Gio Ponti and Giuseppe Gariboldi, even as recently as the 1940s, revisited a model of a small puerperal soup bowl for the Ginori and, also in Italy in 1940, in a national competition for young potters, one of the themes of the test was indeed a modern model of a puerperal cup as an auspicious gift.
This particular cup was also called a "service cup" or "puerperal vase" or "stuffed cup" - the windows were sealed with straw to prevent drafts of air for women in labor.
In the eighteenth century the line of the puerpera cup was simplified, so much so that it took the form of a small tureen with two handles - the typical broth cup...
Category
1770s Italian Rococo Antique Serving Bowls
Materials
Maiolica
Antique English Silver Plated Partitioned Serving Bowl or Condiment Dish
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique serving dish is hallmarked by an unknown English maker, and believed to date to approximately 1910-1920 and done in a Victorian style...
Category
Early 20th Century English Victorian Serving Bowls
Materials
Silver Plate
Vintage Transparent Decorative Glass Flower Bowls, Drost, Europe, 1960s
Located in 05-080 Hornowek, PL
Pair of decorative transparent basket bowls designed by Jan Sylwester Drost in 1960s from Poland. Bowls are in very good vintage condition, no damage or cracks. Original glass. Beautiful piece for every interior! Only one unique set.
About the designer:
From 1952 Jan Sylwester Drost studied at the Faculty of Glass of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, in the studio of Stanislaw Dawski (diploma in 1958), from 1959 he worked as a designer at Zaklady Mechaniczno-Optyczne "Opta" in Katowice.
In 1960 Drost started working for forty years at the Design Center of Huta Szkla Gospodarczego "Zabkowice" in Zabkowice Bedzinskie, where he was the organizer, designer and design manager. In 1972 he studied in Sweden, he had the opportunity to learn about the work of glassworks in Orrefors, Johansfors, Lindshammar, Sandvisk, Hofmantorp and in Reijmyre glasbruk. He also practiced in the ceramics factories in Rörstrand and Gustavsberg. Also in 1972, he received a scholarship from the Swedish government, he gained knowledge at the Faculty of Industrial Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Konstfackskolan, at the Centers of Industrial Design in Stockholm and Milan, as well as at the Glass Institute in Växjö. After returning to Poland, he received a two-year creative scholarship from the Council of the Fund for the Development of Artistic Creativity.
Drost skillfully combined his technological knowledge of glass pressing with artistic sensitivity, and in the seventies he was granted a patent for a device for forming glass products by extrusion. As a result, vessels with a freely shaped upper rim were created. Drost was constantly involved in coming up with new technological solutions that improved the embossing of patterns. He also experimented in the field of machine processing of the outer surface of the extruder and the inside of the cast iron mold...
Category
Mid-20th Century Polish Mid-Century Modern Serving Bowls
Materials
Ceramic, Glass
$64 Sale Price
40% Off
Space Age Dome Lid Smoke Lucite Ice Bucket
By Guzzini
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful and unique Space Age dome ice bucket, with white plastic removable insert for easy cleaning. Sleek and glamorous. Minimal in design and high in style.
Category
20th Century American Space Age Serving Bowls
Materials
Chrome
Vintage, New and Antique Serving Bowls
Vintage, new and antique serving bowls are popular with collectors as well as cooks. While some serving bowls are merely decorative items, others are both eye-catching and functional.
The design and material of a bowl will vary depending on the period and location where it was made. Antique Chinese serving bowls are often exquisitely painted and made from fine porcelain. Colonial American wooden bowls are practical and elegant, able to hold brightly colored fruit or act as a serving dish at a family meal.
Along with wood, stone, metal and porcelain, there are also glass serving bowls. The most notable are made from Murano glass, named for the Murano Island in Venice where many of the world’s most famous glass objects have been produced. Glass serving bowls from the 19th through the mid-20th century are especially popular with collectors. Pieces from this era range from simple to ornate, frequently featuring gold or painted embellishments.
The styles of these bowls include art glass, which dates to the mid-19th century, and colorful carnival glass, which was introduced in the early 20th century. Carnival glass serving bowls were more affordable so they were used widely in homes. Depression glass, an iteration of glassware that was inexpensively mass-produced when people didn’t have much money to spend on decor during the 1920s and ’30s, featured bright colors. Milk glass, which had its heyday in the late 19th century, adds a touch of elegance to any table or display.
Antique and vintage serving bowls are desirable for their style, patterns and range of textures they can help introduce to a space. They are also prized for their rich history. Browse antique and vintage serving bowls on 1stDibs today.