Large Vintage Decorative Serving Dish, Ceramic, Centrepiece Bowl, Neoclassical

This is a large vintage decorative bowl. A Japanese, ceramic serving dish in Art Deco revival Imari pattern, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1980. Impressively broad dish a...

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

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 vintage decorative square dish. An English, ceramic serving plate, dating to the early 20th century, circa 1930. Decorated with traditional English country side...

This is an antique decorative comport. An English, gilded ceramic serving dish, dating to the Edwardian period, circa 1910. Attractive example of serving ware, with ornate detail ...

This is an antique cantaloupe serving dish. A Chinese, ceramic decorative fruit bowl, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Graced with superb colour and an attractive ov...

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...

French ceramic small serving dish by Gustave Reynaud and Le Mûrier (circa 1960s). Shallow bowl-shaped ceramic piece and handle with French coq motif hand painted in the recess in Le ...