Glazed Ceramics

Tea or cappuccino cup and saucer were handmade by Hadley Pottery in Louisville, Kentucky. It is hand painted in minimal palette of green and pink with ...

This antique ceramic water filter, complete with pewter spout and lid, was created in Provence, France, circa 1870. In the old days, it was used as a promotional display in a Pharmac...

One of the masters of Scandinavian Art Deco and Mid-Century design in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, Vicke Lindstrand is best known for his work in glass for Orrefors in the 1930s and f...

An exceptional vase by Swedish ceramicist Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand Sweden, 1950's Rare example with eggshell glaze, marked 'ARM' and signed Gunnar Nylund. Gunnar Nylund (1904...

A set of 2 sculptural ceramic cups handmade by the ceramic artist Hulya Sozer. Food safe glaze. Dishwasher safe. Height: 7cm / Depth: 9cm / Dia...

Portugal, 19th Century Ceramic hanging platter. Ø 37 x D 8 cm

Set of 4 dinner plates, colored drawings with gold and silver highlights, enameled decoration of fish and seabed, green back. Set composed as follows: - 1 plate with a blue, brown a...

Made in Italy, 1957s. This stunning vase is made in white glazed ceramic, which has been hand-painted after and then cooked once again in the oven. It is a rare piece: as a matter...

Made in Italy, 1940s. This brass and glazed ceramic piece is made by Arturo Pannunzio. It is a vintage piece, therefore it might show slight traces of use, but it can be considered a...

Jonathan Adler Couture ceramic vase handmade for a friend. One of four pieces form the early 1980s rare.

A large floor vase with handle with a lovely green speckled glaze designed by Gunnar Nylund at Rörstrand, it´s 45 cm (18") high. It´s in excellent condition except from some minor ma...

A beautiful vase designed by the Swedish ceramicist Claes Thell in his workshop in Höganäs, Sweden in the late 20th century. The vase is in excellent condition and marked below.

Made in Italy, 1950s. This glazed ceramic piece is made by Giovanni Girardi, a famous ceramic artisan from Vicenza that worked for Lenci in Turin. It...

An unusual antique pottery vessel molded with maiden’s heads and decorated in Whieldon glazes dating from the 19th century. Possibly a spill vase or table snuff bottle the vessel is ...

A stylish stoneware studio pottery square form Repeat ware dish by renowned studio potter Janet Leach (British, 1918-1997) dating from around 1960. The dish stands on a narrow unglaz...

Polychrome dish with a village view. The Netherlands, 1700-1750 The dish has a spreading, slightly raised rim and is painted in blue, purple, yellow and green with a simplified vil...

Vase model “Tatu” Manufactured by Willem Van Hooff. Exclusively for SIDE. Netherlands, 2023. Earthenware, glazed. Measurements 26 x 9 x 48h cm 10,2 x 3,5 x 18,9h in Prove...

A delightful and unusual midcentury Swedish art pottery dish mounted with a nude lady by Upsala Ekeby. The dish is heavily made in terracotta cl...

Pair of glazed ceramic flower vases by Delphin Massier, France, circa 1890.

A fine Wedgwood creamware lidded sauce tureen and stand attributed to Alfred Powell and dating from the early 20th century and probably Art Deco period. ...

A scarce fine quality antique English Staffordshire pottery majolica tureen covered serving dish. Having a fitted lid surmounted with figural reclining lion finial with hand pain...

A ceramic vase with yellow / lightyellow (beige) glaze designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane at Rörstrand. The vase is 13 cm (5.2") high and 7.5 cm (3") in diameter and in very good condit...

Maiolica tureen Pasquale Rubati Manufacture Milan, circa 1770 - 1780 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire). It measures 6.69 in x 11,02 x 8.26 (17 x 28 x ...

This rare and remarkable "Head of a Potter" in the pebbly Sung glaze by Jais Nielsen is both strong and subtle, an evocative and beautiful capturing of a young man's visage, no doubt...

Entitled "Lupus et Ovis," Latin for "Wolf and Sheep," this brilliant tile depicts a rather ravenous-looking wolf side-by-side with a sheep along a stream, glazed in rich tones of azu...

A very stylish British handcrafted Studio Pottery multi-sided lidded vessel decorated in soda glazes and dating from the 20th century. The stoneware vessel sits on a flattened round ...

Set of 3 Totem Pulmo vases by Pia Chevalier Each one is unique. Materials: Glazed stoneware. Dimensions: Ø 30 x H 40 cm. Pia Chevalier is a French contemporary designer. Inde...

A stunning and well hand painted pottery plate, probably Plichta, decorated with the Wemyss Cabbage Rose design by Cecil J Garland and dated 1949. The earthenware plate is of simple rounded shape with a raised edge and standing on a narrow round foot. The plate is finely hand painted with in the Scottish Wemyss Pottery style with cabbage roses...

A very stylish mid-century West German ceramic sculptural vase by renowned designer Fritz van Daalen and probably dating from the 1960/70’s. This futuristic looking sculptural vase h...

19th Century Spanish set of four hand-painted framed tiles. The frame measures 37x36cm.

Lustre, 1882 Ltd. with Bethan Gray. Lustre, conceived by award-winning designer Bethan Gray uses a fine bone china body paired with 22-carat gold and black decals...

Lustre, 1882 Ltd. with Bethan Gray. Lustre, conceived by award-winning designer Bethan Gray uses a fine bone china body paired with 22-carat gold and black decals...

Large handmade vintage Turkish floor vase. Hand-carved stylized floral incisions filled with light and dark blue glaze on the warm white base creating an abundance of different types...

A set of six cups and saucers featuring the Wild Turkey - Flying brown and white transfer-ware pattern by the celebrated English pottery firm, Johnson Brothers. With authentic mid...

beautiful and decorative tiles in red, black and white glazed ceramic with fish subject and still life. Very good condition.

Immerse yourself in the beauty of contemporary artistry with our 21st-century Mandrill Mask, a hand-crafted masterpiece made from high-quality ceramic. This mask is in impeccable con...

A large and impressive West-German mid-century art pottery vase with abstract designs by Scheurich Keramik dating from around 1960. The tall bulbous vase stands on an unglazed round ...

Fabulous Italian hand painted figural bowl and tray by Fidia. These big eyed girls are in the style of Fantoni. Bound in leather on the back these are gre...

Handmade stoneware table lectern manufactured at the workshop of Apparatu in Barcelona. Different clay bodys are mixed with natural fibers like corn, str...

Handmade stoneware table lectern manufactured at the workshop of Apparatu in Barcelona. Different clay bodys are mixed with natural fibers like corn, str...

Dish or cup of the Fifties of the French ceramist Roland Brice coming from the workshops of Biot. Free-form bowl in white earthenware with a painted decor...

A rare, probably unique, tall grotesque figural ewer by Robert Wallace Martin for the Martin Brothers dated 1880. The ewer is very tall and modelled as a fanciful animal seated...

Coffee pot Antonio Maria Coppellotti Manufacture Lodi, Circa 1740 High fire polychrome maiolica It measures: 7.87 in x 6,49 x 5.11 (20 cm x 16,5 x 13); weight 1.23 lb (561 g) ...

Bruno Gambone large glazed ceramic horse sculpture with flattened hollow body, Italy, 1970s. This regal stoneware horse has an off-white matte gla...

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...

A stylish Dutch Art Deco studio pottery vase decorated in grey hares fur glazes dating from around 1930. The stoneware hand-crafted vase is contemporary for its period and stands on a flat round base and is of tall cylindrical shape with a round and flat shoulder and slightly raised narrow opening with a flat rim. The vase is decorated in grey streaked glazes with a fine hares fur patterning with a natural glazed base and top rim bringing through the red color of the stoneware. The vase has an incised number 519 to the base and is impressed MOBACH UTRECHT...

ROYAL COPENHAGEN - Ellen Malmer/designer - Nils Thorsson/shape designer - Mid Century Modern - Baca series - Aluminia faience vase number 635/3121 - signed on the base ROYAL COPENHAG...

A fine antique Chinese porcelain figure of Immortal decorated in sancai glazes dating from 19th century. The figure stands raised on a six-sided pedestal...

This is an exceptionally large English mid-19th century Victorian Ironstone Platter decorated in a beautifully detailed Japanese Imari pattern. The enameling is sharp with deep coloration and the overlaid gold is in very good original condition. The platter is marked "Stone China" on the reverse. The platter is in very good overall condition with normal patination and very minimal losses to the painted decoration. There is a bit of wear to the underside of the rim which does not detract from the value of the platter. Platers of this size are very uncommon and desirable. This piece could be installed as a work of art or even fitted with a custom table base...

Gemini vase in White Designed by Project 213A in 2020 Handmade Stoneware A beautiful flower arrangement can bring out the inner quality of flowers and plants, expressing emotion. T...

Stoneware vase designed by Berndt Friberg. Made at Gustavsberg in sweden during the 1950s. Stoneware with a bone colored hares fur glaze. Signed. Good vintage condition with small si...

Two maiolica flower pots Antonio Ferretti Manufacture Lodi, Circa 1770 - 1780 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) The...

A rare Danish Bing & Grondahl brown and white figurine of a pointer dog, designed by Lauritz Jensen. Marked and signed on bottom of the left hind le...

Important ceramic pichet attribued to Jean Rivier, Vallauris France 1960. Beautiful creamy white and brown enamelling. Elegant shape and very nice dimensions.

Designed and glazed by an artist with humor and perhaps a bit of irony, this charming tile was made by the famed Industria Ceramica Salernitana (ICS) pottery in the 1930s. Entitled "...

Midcentury modern vase with graphic dotted, organic, floral decor on white base. Decorative leaves in green, yellow, red colors. Manufactured in the late ...

Large unique ceramic dish, Art Nouveau. Design Julia Kabel for Kähler approx. 1910 - 1920. Glaze with polychrome, decorated with birds and foliage. Go...

Two delightful English Art Deco pottery novelty dog figures with glass eyes made by Fielding’s and Crown Devon and dating from the 1930’s. The small figures portray two small puppy d...