Modern Ceramics
MODERN STYLE
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
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Style: Modern
Period: 1960s
Tazzine ceramica Montecatini
Located in Lugo, IT
Sei tazzine produzione Montecatini.
1 difetto buone condizioni.
Grazie
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Ceramic vase attributed to Bertoncello Roberto Rigon
Located in Lugo, IT
Blue ceramic vase attributed to Bertoncello Roberto Rigon.
Seven defects as pictured
Good conditions.
Thank you
Category
1960s Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Ceramic plate by Roger Capron, France, 1960's
By Roger Capron
Located in Paris, FR
Ceramic plate by Roger Capron, signed, 1960's
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Ruth Duckworth Stoneweare Ceramic Large Monumemtal Vessel
By Ruth Duckworth
Located in Chicago, IL
Ruth Duckworth was an innovative Chicago sculptor, deeply engaged in the natural world and responding to artistic developments in the 1960s. Working in clay, she called herself a scu...
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Signed Vintage Royal Copenhagen Hand Painted Purple, Blue Ceramic Bowl Or Tray
Located in North Miami, FL
This vintage hallmarked hand painted glazed faience ceramic bowl , dish and or tray is from the 60's and was manufactured by Royal Copenhagen from Denmark. This was a craft known by ...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Bjorn Wiinblad For Rosenthal Mat White Bisque Porcelain Monumental Face Bowl
Located in North Miami, FL
This fabulous monumental vintage hallmarked porcelain white mat bisque bowl was designed by Bjorn Wiinblad for Rosenthal Studio LInie from Germany. It is t...
Category
1960s German Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Janet Leach Studio Pottery Brush Work Studio Pottery Lidded Container
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish stoneware studio pottery lidded container with brushed designs by renowned studio potter Janet Leach (British, 1918-1997) dating from around 1965. The container is of squat...
Category
1960s English Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Alvino Bagni for Bitossi Black Ceramic Bowl and Vase with Gold Studs Vintage
By Alvino Bagni, Bitossi
Located in North Miami, FL
Alvino Bagni for Bitossi designed this pair of outstanding rare vintage black Italian ceramics in the 60's for Good Friends which was an American importer and often commissioned Bito...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Gold
Vintage Hallmarked Bitossi Incised Off White Ceramic Textural Vase Italian
By Bitossi
Located in North Miami, FL
This vintage off white incised textural hallmarked vase or vessel is signed on the bottom Flavia Montelupo Italy and was the sister company of Bitossi all under the parent corporatio...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Nils Thorsson For Royal Copenhagen Vintage Geometric Glazed Ceramic Bowl
Located in North Miami, FL
This vintage Royal Copenhagen glazed ceramic bowl by the designer Nils Thorsson is a faience method which is the process of adding tin oxide to glaze the earthenware.
It is from the ...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Fornasetti “Commedia” Ceramic Paperweight and Cup Pair
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“I have thus dressed ceramics, furniture, and things in signs, and in that way I have placed a message in every work — a small story that is sometimes ironic, obviously wordless, but...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Ceramic Artistic Handle, Siva Poggibonsi
Located in Milano, Lombardia
beautifully preserved 1950s ceramic handle with geometric inspiration and warm colors. Quality object in perfect midcentury style as on Gio Ponti's designs.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Vallauris, France, two ceramic bowls in brightly colored glazes. 1960/70s.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Vallauris, France, two ceramic bowls in brightly colored glazes.
1960/70s.
Unstamped.
In excellent condition.
Largest measurement: D 19.0 x H 6.5 cm.
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Vallauris, France, two ceramic bowls in brightly colored glazes. 1960/70s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Vallauris, France, two ceramic bowls in brightly colored glazes.
1960/70s.
Signed.
In excellent condition.
Largest measuring: L 20.0 x W 16.0 x H 8.0 cm.
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
French Studio Ceramist, Unique Ceramic Dish in Crystal Glaze with Blue Shades
Located in Copenhagen, DK
French studio ceramist, unique ceramic dish in crystal glaze with blue shades.
Approx. 1960/70s.
In perfect condition.
D 28.0 cm.
Indistinctly signed.
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Jacques and Dani Ruelland. France. Large enameled earthenware table lamp.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Jacques and Dani Ruelland. France.
Large enamelled earthenware table lamp in a modern design.
Approx. 1960.
In perfect condition.
Fitted with a new socket and cord.
Dimensions: D 25.0 x H 35.0 cm.
Twentieth-century decorative arts and design enthusiasts, French artist Jacques Ruelland...
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware
Vallauris, France, Two Ceramic Bowls, 1960s/70s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Vallauris, France, two ceramic bowls with glazes in red/black and red/brown.
1960/70s.
Marked.
In excellent condition.
Red/brown measures: L 11.0 x W 9.5 x H 8.0 cm.
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Vallauris, France, Two Ceramic Bowls in Brightly Colored Glazes
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Vallauris, France, two ceramic bowls in brightly colored glazes in red and orange on a dark brown base.
1960/70s.
Marked.
In excellent condition.
"Stell...
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Vallauris, France, three ceramic bowls in brightly colored glazes. 1960/70s.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Vallauris, France, three ceramic bowls in brightly colored glazes.
1960/70s.
Unsigned.
In excellent condition.
Largest (blue) measuring: D 15.0 x H 5.5 cm.
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Vallauris, France, Three Ceramic Bowls in Brightly Colored Glazes
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Vallauris, France, three ceramic bowls in brightly colored glazes in red, yellow and green on a dark base.
1960/70s.
Marked.
In excellent condition.
Measuring: L 20.0 x W 14.0 x ...
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Vallauris, France, Three Ceramic Bowls in Brightly Colored Glazes
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Vallauris, France, three ceramic bowls in brightly colored glazes in red and green on a dark base.
1960/70s.
Marked.
In excellent condition.
Largest measurement: D 18.5 x H 6.0 c...
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Vallauris, France, two ceramic bowls with yellow and green glazes.
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Vallauris, France, two ceramic bowls with yellow and green glazes on a black base.
1960/70s.
Marked.
In excellent condition.
Measuring: L 13.5 x W 10.0 x H 5.0 cm.
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Set of Eleven Glazed Ceramic Pumpkins, France, circa 1960
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Set of eleven glazed ceramic Pumpkins, France, circa 1960
One big pumpkin and ten small ones.
Dimensions big pumpkin: 25 cm height, 27 cm di...
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Lagardo Tackett Vinegar cruet, Architectural Pottery, Freeman Lederman .bottle
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Great sample of modern design in this amazing Vinegar bottle/cruet by Lagardo Tackett .
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Rupert Deese, Blue, Ceramic/Stoneware" Apple" Sculpture, Paperweight, Marked
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is one of the most simple and elegant sculptures made for the very well known artist, ceramist Rupert Deese, has amazing blue tones in the glaze, marked with cypher 's artist mark.
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Sergio Asti Flower Vase for Gabbianelli
By Sergio Asti
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Sergio Asti's flower vase for Gabbianelli probably in the 1960s-1970s. Two separate vases stand close to each other.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Stig Lindberg for Gustavsberg Studio Monumental Vase, with Matte and Green, Glaze
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stig Lindberg by Gustavsberg studio, Sweden, Unique stoneware with relief pattern in this monumental vase with matte green and charcoal grey glaze. Very rare vase. We list the piece ...
Category
1960s Swedish Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Roger Capron, Black Enamelled Sculptural Cendrier c.1960
By Roger Capron
Located in Holmfirth, GB
Black enamelled sculptural ceramic ‘cendrier’ by Roger Capron.
Artist: Roger Capron
Year: c.1960
Size: 10 cm x 17 cm
Note: There is a small loss to the back of the head...
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Ceramic Vase by Ambrogio Pozzi, Italy, 1968
Located in Barcelona, ES
Ceramic vase designed in 1968 by Ambrogio Pozzi for Ceramiche Franco Pozzi, Italy.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Bruno Gambone Ceramic/Pottery Bottle/ Vase Signed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Great sweet vase/bottle by the well known artist Bruno Gambone . signed and Italy in bottom.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Pottery, Ceramic
Large Ceramic Pot Cover
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
An Elchinger large black and red pot cover
Elchinger is a ceramic manufacture from Soufflenheim in Alsace France from 1834 to 2016.
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Four Retro Jugs in Glazed Ceramics, Belgium, 1960s-1970s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Four retro jugs in glazed ceramics. Beautiful glazes and shapes, Belgium, 1960s-1970s.
Largest measures: 18.5 x 17 cm.
In excellent condition.
Stamped.
Category
1960s Belgian Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Five Retro Jugs in Glazed Ceramics. Belgium, 1960s-1970s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Five retro jugs in glazed ceramics. Beautiful glazes and shapes, Belgium, 1960s-1970s.
Largest measures: 23.5 x 13 cm.
In excellent condition.
Stamped.
Category
1960s Belgian Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Belgian Studio Ceramicist, Retro Jug in Glazed Ceramics Shaped like a Fish
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Belgian studio ceramicist. Retro jug in glazed ceramic shaped like a fish.
Beautiful glaze in brown and orange shades. 1960s / 70s.
Measures: 24.5 x 18 cm...
Category
1960s Belgian Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Stylish Tenmoku Glazed Pattern Studio Pottery Bowl Signed, 20th Century
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish and well made vintage studio pottery bowl with a tenmoku glazed swirl design around the body on a light mottled brown ground...
Category
1960s English Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Ceramic Sculpture by Ka Kwong Hui
By Hiu Ka Kwong
Located in Pawtucket, RI
Rare and large ceramic sculpture by Pop ceramicist Ka Kwong Hui. Signed.
Hui immigrated to U.S. in 1948. Received a BFA in 1951 and a MFA in 1952 from Al...
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Large Iridescent Italian Urn
Located in New York, NY
Large Mid Century Ceramic Iridescent Urn with wooden top and base, CA 1960 Italy. Significant Italian mid century urn with brilliant iridescen...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Modern ceramics for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Modern ceramics for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage ceramics created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, decorative objects, folk art and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with ceramic, stoneware and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Modern ceramics made in a specific country, there are Europe, North America, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original ceramics, popular names associated with this style include Monika Patuszynska, Mosche Bianche, Richard A. Hirsch, and LAAB Milano. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for ceramics differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $20 and tops out at $50,348 while the average work can sell for $614.
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