Glazed Ceramics

An extremely rare and wonderfully hand-painted monumentally large charger featuring a portrait of Queen Elizabeth - a quite unique and bold work by famed American/ California studio ...

A wonderful set of eight early 20th century French ceramic salt cellars with a terracotta colored exterior and a shiny glazed interior. Perfect for...

A stunning Art Deco period faience bowl, made in France by the Emaux de Longwy art pottery workshop and dating circa 1920-30s. This earthenware bowl is hand-decorated with Chinoiseri...

Beautiful white round ceramic vase, perfect for displaying your favorite flower arrangements. Offering a unique view from every angle, this round ceramic vase crosses the line between functionality and ornament. Use it as a fully functional flower vase or as an adornment for your home. All vases...

This early 20th century mixing bowl comes from a rare collection of spongeware. This item has been well taken care of and is in pristine condition. There is minor wear that is consis...

Stunning lemons Manises Majolica ceramic wall decoration, Spain, 1960s. Handcrafted ceramic wall hanging sculpture featuring a bunch of...

A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing glaze. Made by Claes Thell, in the artist's studio, Höganäs, Sweden, 1977. Excellent condition. Signed Thell '77. Claes Thell is a Swedish ...

Oversized vintage celadon glazed Vietnamese water jar vessel with elegant urn shape. The jade-green glaze, with its subtle crackle, exudes timeless sophistication. Versatile for indo...

Gorgeous wiener dog sculpture from the "Rimini Blu" collection by Flavia Montelupo for Bitossi. This lovely and rare sculpture was designed by Flavia Montelupo and produced by Bitoss...

A set of eight large vintage wild Turkey decanters featuring the hard-to-find #one and #two decanters and the popular #three flying and #...

Eye-catching Majolica ceramic white and green strawberry shaped tureen. Manufactured by Bordalo Pinheiro, Portugal, 1960s. This cute tureen has a very realistic design with leaves on the top. A leaf shaped serving plate and a small serving spoon complete the set. This highly decorative serving piece will be a nice addition to any kitchen or dining table. It will be a cool choice used as sauce tureen. Excellent condition. On sale as a set of three pieces, strawberry tureen...

Beautiful white ceramic vase, perfect for showcasing your favorite floral arrangements. Providing a unique perspective from every angle, this handmade pottery vase gracefully blurs t...

Beautiful white ceramic flower vase with spikes, perfect for showcasing your cherished blooms. Providing a unique perspective from every angle, this handmade ceramic vase blurs the l...

Rare antique item from Rörstrand. The Rörstrand company has produced ceramics for nearly 300 years and is one of Sweden’s oldest industries. The Swedish Porcelain Works was founded i...

A set of eight vintage mini wild Turkey decanters featuring the popular and hard-to-find #3 flying and #8 fan-tail decanters. Each mini marked o...

Queens Ware is the mark on this pitcher and basin set made in England in the mid to late 1800s by Wedgwood. It is also known as creamware, a techniqu...

Stunning and stylish hand-crafted blue matte bowl by Saint Clement pottery studio/workshop, France. Signed on the underside with Saint Clement...

Aldo Londi Bitossi Kwan Yin, Ceramic, Buddha Bust, Blue. Beautiful and calming female Buddha glazed in a vibrant dark reflex blue. According to one legend, Kwan Yin was an Indian Princess...

A fine hand-crafted ceramic pitcher vase from the Provence region of France. This French ceramic pitcher vase is very well made using clay from the region. Hand-painted then glazed...

Rare Rouen plate with beautiful blue decoration. France, circa 1750 Good condition.

A Set of 10 Wedgwood & Barlaston of Etruria Green Glazed Majolica Cabbage Plates Extremely popular during the Hollywood Regency period, now a classic. The mold shows an oversized ca...

An asymmetrical bowl handcrafted by Ewen Henderson, (1934-2000) Mixed clay layered with pink, olive green, and grey glazes.    

Stunning white porcelain vase by Thomas. The rounded pleat design catches light and shadow beautifully from different angles. Measurements: H 8", W 5.5", D 3".

Francois Lembo mirror, ceramic, jeweled, gold, emerald green, black signed. Small scale circular gold glazed mirror with embedded jewel decoration. Signed F. Lembo with incised signature on the back. A native of Vallauris François Lembo started his pottery career in 1951, in the workshops of Calva and Rossignol. After his apprenticeship and having completed his national service...

A large vintage serving platter featuring the Wild Turkeys - Flying brown and white transfer-ware pattern by the celebrated English pottery fi...

Large stoneware glazed decorative vase. Midcentury era design featuring hand drawn strips of blue colored glaze, Germany, 1960s. Perfect condition. Measures: Height 40 cm.

Late 1950’s - early 1960’s Aldo Londi Rimini Blue Water Jug for Bitossi, Italy. Label on base. Decorated with the typical geometric pattern with a turquoise and cobalt blue colouring...

Ceramic lamp stand with expressive head designed by Gudrun Baudisch executed by Wiener Werkstatte ca. 1928 marked Austrian Art In this ceramic object, Gudrun Baudisch combines her...

A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing glaze. Made by Claes Thell, in the artist's studio, Höganäs, Sweden, 1970. Excellent condition. Signed Thell '70. Claes Thell is a Swedish ...

Pair of Organic Modern mugs or cups feature complex craquelure glaze in delicate celadon, blue, beige, and pink palette. Abstract graphic designs emphasize sculptural shape of the r...

Beautiful big bucket vase with two steel handles, Famille verte. Excellent decorated with women and young boys in a walled garden and princess on horseback...

These are impressive black glazed Chinese Late Qing Stoneware Storage Jars that would be at home in an Axel Vervoordt-style designed space. Both Jars are hand thrown with a thick bla...

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

Tall West German Orange lava ceramic vase. In original condition with visible wear consistent with its age and use. Regarded as the golden age of ceramics, highly collectable 1950s-1...

A very fine Art Deco pottery figure of a North American Native figure of a kneeling girl made by Van Briggle Art Pottery in the 1930’s. Van Briggle Art p...

A good large and well painted poole pottery bowl decorated with the Blue Rooster pattern by Truda Carter and dating from the 1960’s. The bowl stands rais...

Made in Italy, 1970s. This ashtray / catchall is made in glazed ceramic by Gabbianelli and features its logo on the bottom. It may show slight traces of use since it's vintage, but...

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 glazed pottery vide poche by Madeleine Bruault for Poterie de la Colomvr Vallauris.

Large glazed ceramic brown jug with mottled taupe glaze and concentric circle detail by Scheurich Keramik West, Germany. Originally sold through Raymor. Mea...

A very fine and well sculpted French Sevres turquoise glazed ceramic figure of an elephant by renowned French ceramist Paul Milet (French, 1870-1950) and da...

Large ceramic vase from Danish Søholm Stentøj, produced on the island of Bornholm in the 1960s. Rich glazing and decorative striped ornamentation. W...

Rare antique item from Rörstrand. The Rörstrand company has produced ceramics for nearly 300 years and is one of Sweden’s oldest industries. The Swedish Porcelain Works was founded i...

Beautifully handmade ceramic mugs designed to enhance the lovely experience of drinking well-made coffee. Beautiful to look at and highly functional, each handmade pottery mug is in...

'Rimini blu' glazed ceramic vase designed by Aldo Londi for by Bitossi. Italy, 1960s. This eye-catching vase is made of blue glazed ceramic with engraved patterns surrounding the cen...

Handbuilt organic modern vase made from a groggy clay body covered in a matte black glaze with layers of glossy and crawling black glaze on top. Each vase is made by hand in our Broo...

Rare late 15th or early 16th century Mudejar tile of the so-called ‘Arista’ technique with intricate geometric decoration. Good condition; some chipping to the edges, some wear to ...

A giant sized handmade Rimini blue ceramic vase designed by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi. Italy, 1960s. Blue glazed ceramic with engraved patterns adorning the top of the ...

Exceedingly charming ceramic 'Busto di Bambino' in the Italian Renaissance style. With the blue and white glaze typical of artist Andrea Della Robbia...

An impressive English aesthetic movement ceramic twin handled moon shaped vase decorated with classical figures dating from around 1880. The vase is finely made and stands on a wide ...

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Hollywood Regency hand painted majolica obelisk - large size - featuring elaborate floral and vine pattern - Neo-classical plinth style base with four support balls - signed on the b...

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 beautiful stoneware vase with amazing glaze. Made by Claes Thell, in the Artist's studio, Höganäs, Sweden, 1978. Excellent condition. Signed Thell '78. Claes Thell is a Swedish ...

Beautiful West German ceramic pitcher or vase. Marked '1609/25' on bottom. Regarded as the golden age of ceramics, highly collectable 1950s-1970s Art Pottery is known for experimenta...

Mid 20th C. Italian, a large charger made of glazed ceramic signed "Nino Parrucca" at lower right. Numbered #155 and marked Made in Italy to underside. The plate features a lively scene of grape harvesting, a common theme in Mediterranean art...

Highly collectable glazed Majolica plate in greens, yellow and pink. Wonderful ceramic pieces to add to current collection or create new grouping with this fantastic set.

A lovely dark green vase designed by Ewald Dahlskog at Bo Fajans, Sweden in the 1930s. The vase is 19.5 cm (7.8") high and in excellent condition.

These are a good set of six side or salad plates decorated in the "LYNN" Art Deco pattern and made by Royal Doulton, England in the early 1930s. The plates are circular and made f...

A finely made Art Deco Carlton Ware pottery Rouge Royal Mikado pattern lidded ginger jar dating between 1935 and 1955. The jar stands on a narrow...