Large Vintage Fruit Bowl, English, Hand Painted Ceramic, Decorative Dish, C.1930

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 fruit bowl. A ceramic basin in white with decorative floral bands dating to the late 20th century. An attractive bowl in good...

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 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 a large vintage shell shaped fruit bowl. An English, ceramic decorative serving dish, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1970. Fascinatingly formed fruit bowl, with appealing decor Displaying a desirable aged patina and in good order Quality white ceramic beneath a lightly glazed top coat Crafted into a superb half scallop shell form Accentuated with deep cobalt blue, gilt finish and colourful foliate pattern Maker's mark to base for the Mason's Mandalay pattern...

This is a vintage decorative pouring jug. An English, hand painted ceramic pourer in Art Deco taste, dating to the early 20th century, circa 1930. Charmingly decorative jug with gre...

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...

"Dotto“ ist eine handbemalte kleine Schale, die im Münsterland in einer Manufaktur produziert wurde. Dotto ist einzigartig, da die Glasuren, wie sie hier ineinander verschmolzen sin...

This fun ceramic dish by California potter Edmund Ronaky has a free form and a two-part shape. It has a high gloss glaze over a design of a worried ...

Traditionally shaped fruit dish by contemporary French ceramist and colorist Claire de Lavallée.   

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...

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...