Large Vintage Decorative Bowl, Japanese, Ceramic, Serving Dish, Art Deco, Imari

This is an antique decorative plate. A Japanese, ceramic serving dish with blue Imari taste, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Dashingly decorative serving plate with...

This is a large vintage decorative serving dish. An Oriental, ceramic centrepiece bowl with neoclassical taste, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1980. Wonderfully decorated ...

This is a large vintage Imari plate. A Japanese, ceramic decorative charger, dating to the Art Deco period, circa 1930. Pleasingly vibrant finish across a generously sized plate Dis...

This is a small antique Imari bowl. A Japanese, ceramic decorative dish, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Wonderfully colourful example of Imari in delightful bowl f...

This is an antique Imari plate. A Japanese hand-painted ceramic serving dish, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Charming example ...

This is a large vintage fruit bowl. An English, hand painted ceramic decorative dish, dating to the early 20th century, circa 1930. Wonderful...

Quality large antique Japanese imari bowl, having a quality large antique Japanese imari bowl circular in shape, decorated with flowers and leaves hand painted in stunning blue, gree...

Contemporary white ceramic deep serving dish (salad bowl/first courses dish) handmade Salad bowl, or a first course dish, in matt white ceramic with handles, adorned with an aster...

Birger Kaipiainen saw the world through a surreal and symbolic filter that made it more joyful, flowerful, and certainly more colourful. However, during times of grief, as when he lost his wife Maggi in 1966, he turned to blues, blacks and violets. Another such period was when Kaipiainen lost his dear friend, the Marimekko's founder and designer, Armi Ratia in 1979. Birger and Armi used to spend a lot of time at her legendary Bökars Mansion that had a wonderful veranda adorned with columns and chandeliers. Armi's loss was reflected in a few of Kaipiainen's works from that period. In those works (see last pics of dishes from the book Kaipiainen by Maria Berg) his interpretation of the duality of life and death was obvious. Also the symbolism bridging the two was present (reflection, bridges, boats, flowing waters). We can also see pansy flowers that he frequently used after the loss of his wife. In this unique dish, Kaipiainen used a lot of the above colours and elements, and just as Armi was the soul of their legendary parties, he introduced the golden harp...

Vintage Ceramic Footed Serving Dish by Roger Capron - Vallauris, France Roger Capron was in influential French ceramicist, known for his tiled tab...

This divided lobster serving dish is among the best of the crustacean serving-pieces genre I've seen! The scale, detail, and color nuances are tho...

Large ceramic plate in white and gold luster, hand painted in Italy and handmade with the pottery wheel. This majolica plate can be used as a centerpiece...