Ceramic Ceramics

French Majolica oyster plate Orchies, circa 1900.

This lovely pair of bookmarks, depicting a nude female figure petting the head of a lion, is rendered in a style suggestive of a Classical Greek tableau. It has been realized in whit...

19th Century French Majolica basket signed Choisy le Roi. H / 9 inches , 10" on 6.5 inches.

A set of three ceramic pieces designed and manufactured in Sesto Fiorentino by Italo Casini. This set exudes timeless elegance and artistic flair. The black, blue, and gold set compr...

Jerome Massier France, circa 1950 Corbeille tressée en céramique bleue Dimensions : 9,5 x 39 x 26,5 Très bon état.

French Majolica grapes plate Salins on a light yellow background (East of France), circa 1890.

Julius Dressler's factory opened in Biela, Bohemia in 1883 and closed in 1944. His work was influenced by the Art Nouveau and Vienna Secessionist movements. Style-looks, simply s...

Amazing set of fishes in brown color, made by one of the glass manufacture based in Poland. Would make a great addition to every collection! Very good original vintage condition. Abs...

Very decorative vase from the early art deco period, made in France. This object has a shape that looks like the ancient Greek amphorae, but has a four-pass stand to ensure stabili...

A lovely small vase with a lovely green glaze designed by Rolf Palm at his workshop in Mölle outside Höganäs in Sweden. The vase is 8 cm tall and is in excellent condition, it has a ...

Mid-Century Italian earthenware bowl with lid by Aldo Londi for Bitossi (circa 1950s). An early and rare example of Bitossi by Londi, it presents a rough-textured, mottled, yellowish...

Authentic Catalan majolica plate (Plato de Faixes o Cintes con Liebre), dating to the first half of the 18th century, produced in Catalonia, Spain. This type of plate belongs to the ...

PRESENTING a LOVELY piece of reproduction Native American Antiquity, namely, a Vintage Pre-Columbian Style Pottery Centerpiece. We are of the opinion that this was made circa the ea...

These large and fabulous pair of RARE vintage late 1940's to early 1950's Kutani Japan handcrafted and hand painted foo dog lions are very commanding both in stature and execution of meticulous painted detail with 22 carat gold leaf throughout. The persimmon color of a burnt hue porcelain ceramic porcelain male and female matched pair of foo dogs have a mariage decoration. These are a stunning and gorgeous example of Japanese 2oth Century Arts and a lost art form. The foo dogs are ferocious shishi lions with very colorful and detailed Kutano style moriage porcelain...

Enhance your summer entertaining with the elegant Ceramic Saint Jacques Plates. Expertly handcrafted and beautifully hand-painted in Italy, these plates feature distinctive scalloped...

A rare and harmonious set of five Finnish ceramic butter jars, known in Finland as voipytty, produced by Arabia in the early 1900s through the 1930s. This set consists of relatively ...

An egg designed by the Swedish ceramicist Hans Hedberg, who lived and worked in Biot, France. This egg is 25 cm (10") tall including the stand. It´s in very good condition except fro...

1950's Tony Paul Style Wire Base Porcelain Pottery Ash Tray MINT!

Fantastic quality antique Japanese imari large plate, having a quality antique Japanese imari plate with a scallop shaped edge, decorated with a basket of flowers to the centre surro...

This is a very rare shaped early Jug or pitcher, hand painted in the gold gilded Rose Posies pattern against a Mazarine blue ground, made by Mason's Ironstone, Lane Delph, England and dating to circa 1813-1820. This jug is hand potted in a very rare shape with a loop handle and a pouring spout to the rim. The pattern is hand painted in the Rose Posies pattern all against a Mazarine blue ground colour with hand gilded twirls, as illustrated on page 32 of a guide to Mason's patent ironstone patterns, circa 1813-1848, published by The Mason's Collectors' Club. This jug is unmarked to the base, as was often the case in this period but this piece is definitely made by Mason's Ironstone with a similar jug illustrated on page 188 of Geoffrey Godden's guide to Masons China...

A fine vintage Santa Claus character jug or decorative mug by the English pottery firm, Royal Doulton.

A black vase designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane at Rörstrand. The vase is 13.5 cm (5.4") high and in excellent condition. The vase is marked as 1st quality. Carl-Harry Stålhane is one...

Spanish terracotta mixing bowl (like the French “tian” of similar form) circa 1920 glazed in a burnt umber with contrasting, abstract/floral design rising up from the center in butte...

Fantastic quality antique cheese dish and cover, having a original antique cheese cover with a shaped handle to the back and the original dish wit...

Painted ceramic, very good original vintage condition. No damages or cracks. Beautiful and unique decorative sculpture. Brown Shepherd Dog Sculpture was produced in England. Only one...

Gunnar Nylund (1904-1997) was a renowned Swedish ceramic artist and designer known for his significant contributions to the field of ceramic art and pottery. He was a prominent figur...

A brown vase designed by Berndt Friberg at Gustavsberg in Stockholm, the vase is 17 cm (6.8") high and about 15.5 cm (6.2") in diameter. It has a beautiful brown har-fur glaze, it is...

Rare antique English Yorkshire or Staffordshire creamware pierced basket with intricate reticulated body. Lovely color no damage or repairs.

A large vintage white ceramic serving or fruit bowl. Made in Germany by Rosenthal in the "Polygon" line. Crisp glossy white glaze and modernist faceted design. Marked on the base.

ST Tropez Mural by Olivia Cognet Dimensions: D 5 x W 320 x H 210 cm Materials: Ceramic. Each of Olivia’s handmade creations is a unique work of art, the snapshot of a precious mome...

Small Majolica Lidded Tureen Mixed Earths , circa 1890.

Nice vase from Bitossi by Aldo Londi. The Rimini pattern executed in glossy dark green.

Beautiful hand painted and glazed ceramic tile with people faces, Hebrew inscription ,in the style of cubist, or geometric. Signed by the artist. The tile is professionally mounted ...

This pair of floor vases were made in Sweden in the 1940s at Ekeby and designed by famous Greta Runeborg. It is made with grace, that makes the curves ...

A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing 'leopard' glaze. Made by Yngve Blixt, in his studio in Höganäs, Sweden, 1975. Excellent condition. Incised Yngve Blixt, Höganäs. Yngve Blix...

John Gill studio art pottery ewer abstract hand thrown raised glazed decoration. Signed and dated 1984 on the bottom. Gill was born in 1949. His work is part of many museums permanen...

19th century majolica plates by Villeroy & Boch in unusual color combination of olive green and turquoise with relief design on front. Nice addition to your table or just to display....

A deep blue vase with a lovely crystalline glaze designed by Isak Isaksson in Sweden. The vase is 20.5 cm (8.2") tall and about 17.5 cm (7") wide and it is in excellent condition. Th...

A set of 10 hand painted porcelain Vista Alegre dessert plates, each painted in bright colours with a different exotic Brazilian bird within a gilt hand chased border, the reverse with the name of the bird species, ‘VA Portugal...

Art Pottery, Studio Ceramic /weed pot , feelie by Brenda Williams.. Northern California artist.. Stunning form,, wonderful glaze.. Last pho...

Quality antique Japanese imari charger having a quality antique Japanese imari charger decorated with flowers, trees, dragons and birds in vibrant red, blue, green, gold and white co...

A fine, very large, 18th century English creamware pottery charger or wall plate. With a raised feather edge border. Simply a great antique English pottery...

A lovely multicolored ceramic vase with a red tone and a stunning crystalline glaze designed by Isak Isaksson in Sweden. The vase is 14 cm (5.6") tall and about 14 cm (5.6") wide and...

Quality antique Imari vase having quality hand painted panels with flowers, leaves and dogs and hand painted in fantastic red, blue, green, yellow a...

This is an early Mason's ironstone pottery Dinner Plate in the rare blue and white Chinese Dragon pattern, circa 1818. The plate is circular with a notched indented rim. This plate is decorated in one of the rare patterns called "Chinese Dragon" as documented on page 116 of "A Guide to Mason's Patent Ironstone Patterns, c 1813 to c 1848," published by The Masons Collectors' Club. The pattern is transfer printed under-glaze in different shades of Cobalt Blue. The base of the plate has a large crown blue...

This striking, large vintage ceramic centerpiece bowl is a quintessential example of 1980s Art Deco Revival design, expertly crafted by the renowned American pottery manufacturer Tre...

Ceramic vase by Gertrud Lonegren in golden glaze and a highly textured surface. Measures: Diameter 21 cm Height 21.5 cm Lonegren studied in Vienna and Stockholm during the 1920s, ...

Hutschenreuther (Manufacturer) - Dr. Heinrich Fuchs (Designer) - Mid century porcelain vase - featuring Origami-like folds in the design that play with light and the unique shape - w...

Sculptural ceramic vase from the renowned pottery center of Vallauris, France features an asymmetrical form with flowing, organic edges and a pinched spout opening. Gray volcanic-tex...

Large Majolica asparagus plate signed Keller et Guerin Luneville, circa 1880. This plate exist in different colors and sizes.

Stunning and vibrant, vase with sgrafitto and hand-painted colored glossy pattern. On the base is painted Italy 8614. Fratelli Fanciullacci Pottery: during the first half of the 20t...

A blue-glazed ceramic vase produced by Nittsjö, Sweden, c. 1930s. Wear consistent with age and use. Overall Dimensions (inches): 6.0"H x 5.3"W x 4.75"D All items ship from High Po...

Acquareccia plate Patanazzi workshop Urbino, last quarter of the 16th century It measures diameter 17.12 in; foot diameter 11.53 in; height 1.88 in (43.5 cm; 29.3 cm; 4.8 cm). Weight State of conservation: wear and a few small minimal detachments of enamel, chipping on the raised areas, peeling of enamel at the brim on the back. This large, shallow basin is equipped with a wide and convex well. It is umbonate with a contoured center. The brim, short and flat, is enclosed in a double rounded and barely raised edge. The basin has a flat base without rims; it has a slightly concave center in correspondence to the well. The shape takes inspiration from the basins associated with the metal forged amphora pourers that traditionally adorned the credenza. These were used from the Middle Ages to wash hands during banquets. Two or three people washed their hands in the same basin and it was considered an honor to wash one’s hands with an illustrious person. The decoration is arranged in concentric bands with, in the center of the umbo, an unidentified shield on a blue background: an oval banded in gold with a blue head, a gold star and a field with a burning pitcher. Rings of faux pods separate the center from a series of grotesque motifs of small birds and masks. These go around the basin and are, in fact, faithfully repeated on the brim. The main decoration develops inside the flounce of the basin, which sees alternating symmetrical figures of winged harpies and chimeras. The ornamentation, outlined in orange, green and blue, stands out against the white enamel background. This decorative style, defined since the Renaissance as “grottesche” or “raffaellesche”, refers to the decorations introduced after the discovery of the paintings of the Domus Aurea towards the end of the fifteenth century. The discovery of Nero's palace, buried inside Colle Oppio by damnatio memoriae, occurred by chance when a young Roman, in 1480, fell into a large crack which had opened in the ground on the hill, thus finding himself in a cave with walls covered with painted figures. The great artists present in the papal city, including Pinturicchio, Ghirlandaio, Raffaello, immediately visited these caves. The decorations found there soon became a decorative subject of immense success: the term grotesque , with the meaning of “unusual,” “caricatured,” or “monstrous,” was later commented by Vasari in 1550 as “una spezie di pittura licenziose e ridicole molto”( “a very licentious and ridiculous kind of painting”). The decorations “a grottesche” also widely circulated in ceramic factories, through the use of engravings, variously interpreted according to the creativity of the artists or the requests of the client. Our basin is reflected in similar artifacts produced at the end of the sixteenth century by the factories of the Urbino district. See the series of basins preserved in the main French museums, among which the closest in morphology is that of the Campana collection of the Louvre (Inv. OA1496); this however has a more complex figure decoration, while the decoration of our specimen is sober and with a watercolor style. The style, sure in its execution, approaches decorative results still close to the works produced around the middle of the sixteenth century by the Fontana workshop. The decoration is closely linked to their taste, which later finds its natural outlet, through the work of Antonio, also in the Patanazzi workshop. Studies show the contiguity between the two workshops due to the kinship and collaboration between the masters Orazio Fontana and Antonio Patanazzi, both trained in the workshop of Guido Fontana il Durantino. It is therefore almost natural that their works, often created according to similar typologies and under the aegis of the same commissions, are not always easily distinguishable, so much so that the presence of historiated or “grottesche” works by Orazio is documented and preserved in Antonio Patanazzi's workshop. Given that the studies have always emphasized the collaboration between several hands in the context of the shops, it is known that the most ancient “grottesche” works thus far known, can be dated from 1560, when the Fontana shop created the so-called Servizio Spagnolo (Spanish Service) and how, from that moment on, this ornamentation became one of the most requested by high-ranking clients. We remember the works created for the Granduchi di Toscana, when Flaminio Fontana along with his uncle Orazio supplied ceramics to Florence, and, later, other commissions of considerable importance: those for the service of the Duchi d’Este or for the Messina Farmacia of Roccavaldina, associated with the Patanazzi workshop when, now after 1580, Antonio Patanazzi began to sign his own work. Thus, in our basin, the presence of masks hanging from garlands, a theme of more ancient memory, is associated in the work with more advanced stylistic motifs, such as the hatching of the chimeras and harpies. These are found here on the front with the wings painted in two ornate ways. In addition, the theme of the birds on the edge completes the decoration along the thin brim and can be seen as representing an early style typical of the Urbino district during a period of activity and collaboration between the two workshops. Later, a more “doll-like” decorative choice, typical of the end of the century and the beginning of the seventeenth century, characterized the period of the Patanazzi workshop under the direction of Francesco. Bibliography: Philippe Morel, Il funzionamento simbolico e la critica delle grottesche nella seconda metà del Cinquecento, in: Marcello Fagiolo, (a cura di), Roma e...

Early Arista y cuenca tile made in Toledo. Tile decorated in renaissance with stylized flowers was probably made between 1550 and 1575.

Large vase from the 30's by French artist Jean Mayodon. Ceramic vase decorated with antique dancers and gold edging. Enamel with the artist's typical crackled look. Very fine vintag...

We have curated a group of stunning pieces of ceramics made in Sweden during the 1950s. These pieces have been gathered and put together by us, carefully sorted and now ready to be g...

An authentic antique water jug from the Kabylia region of Algeria. Hand-built using traditional coiling techniques, this terracotta vessel is a one of a kind example of Berber (Amazi...

De Simone ceramic plate, Italy, 1970s, measure diameter 44 cm. "Catania and the Etna Volcano". The brand was born in the 1960s from the creative flair of the Palermo nobleman Giova...

Edmond Lachenal (1855-1948), a wonderful Art Deco turquoise blue volcanic glazed ceramic vase, circa 1930, in wonderful antique condition. Edmond Lachenal was considered an innovator...

A blue vase with a lovely crystalline glaze designed by Isak Isaksson in Sweden. The vase is 17.5 cm (7") tall and about 11.5 cm (4.6") wide and it is in excellent condition. This is...