Glazed Ceramics

OR19067 A large and stunning antique Chinese Qing porcelain charger decorated in the famille rose palette with scattered floral designs on a turquoise ground and set around five Chi...

"Pas de Deux," Superb Satyr and nude women pairing inspired by Ballets Russes. Glazed Ceramic Sculpture - Figure By Le Faguays & E. Cazaux Sculpted by Pierre Le Faguays, one of France's most important artists...

Very rare flemish pottery beer jug or stein…..depicting the Story of Susanna and dated 1584. The original jug has been attributed to Engel Kran…..a ...

Berndt Friberg (1899-1981) for Gustavsberg Studio. Miniature bowl in glazed ceramic. Glaze in blue tones. Mid-20th century. In perfect condition. Signed. With "Studio hand" mark. Dim...

Beautiful coastal vase crafted from stoneware clay. Inspired by the vibrant marine life of the reef and the soft motion of ocean waves, this white matte vase showcases a distinctive ...

This very fine terra cotta sculpture was a high-end creation of the Keramos ceramic company in Vienna. Although the company produced its share of po...

Pair of late 19th century Majolica plates signed J Roth, who was located in London from 1879-1881. J Roth was a small manufacturer that only did the finest in Majolica pieces. The ...

Rare pair of Swedish Mid-Century Modern handmade and hand decorated ceramic vases with semi-crackle glaze. By acclaimed Estonian-Swedish designer Mari Simmulson (1911-2000) who desig...

Late 19th century French Majolica plate with a lovely scrolled border and a central design with gorgeous roses and rosebuds with leaves. Stand not included.

A Wedgwood Majolica earthenware pottery match holder and striker, Staffordshire, England – circa 1869. For the hearth, kitchen or bedside, the holder is ribbed for lighting strike...

Glazed pottery bowl made in Germany midcentury Signed: Kunsthandlung W. Welker Heidelberg.

A group of five black vases designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane at Rörstrand. The vases are between 10 - 34 cm high and in excellent condition except from some minor marks and scratches....

Beautiful stoneware vase made by master ceramists Erich and Ingrid Triller. This piece was created at their workshop in Tobo, Sweden, 1950’s. Excellent condition. Signed on the base...

A lovely bowl of model Argenta 901 designed by Wilhelm Kåge at Gustavsberg, this bowl is 32,5 cm (13") in diameter and about 13 cm (5,2") high. It´s in excellent condition except fro...

A green vase with a lovely crystalline glaze designed by Isak Isaksson in Sweden. The vase is 13 cm (5.2") tall and about 9 cm (3.6") wide and it is in excellent condition. This is a...

Beautiful round white ceramic vase crafted from stoneware clay. Inspired by the vibrant marine life of the reef and the soft motion of ocean waves, this white matte vase showcases a ...

Beautiful handcrafted small ceramic dipping bowls. These highly functional pottery bowls are perfect for serving dips, nuts, seeds, condiments, sea salt,...

A lovely black mid-century bowl in ceramic from Rörstrand, Sweden, designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane. The bowl is marked as 1st quality and it is in excellent condition. Carl-Harry S...

One of the most striking -- and rare -- vases ever produced by the Mougin ceramics firm in France, this vase ringed by four nude male figures clasping hands...

This is a very good quality porcelain coffee can by Spode of Staffordshire, England, made during the very early 19th century, George 111rd period, circa 1805. The coffee can is no...

Wonderful midcentury Israel Lapid pottery pieces featuring trademark Lapid markings on the bottom and dark bluish-grey interior glaze. Lapid is the most renowned and collected kibbut...

Taking Mediterranean Antiquity as his theme, Emile Gallé created this rare and original piece. A ceramist and glassmaker, Gallé was one of the greatest names in the Art Nouveau move...

A group of three vases designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane at Rörstrand in the 1950s. The vases are between 25.5 - 27.5 cm tall and in excellent condition. They all have stunning glazes ...

The engraved and brush painted ceramic plate, Visage Gris (Grey Face) is one the most iconic pieces created by Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) at the Madoura workshop in Vallauris, France. It is said "all portraits are self portraits". In this work, we see Picasso's wistfulness, vulnerability and humor set within a beautiful image representing both the sun and the moon, the masculine and the feminine. Picasso mastery of form, image, composition and subtle color is evident in a work that resonates transcendence. Created in 1953, Pablo Picasso ceramic Visage Gris (Grey Face), 1953 A.R. 206 is a Madoura white earthenware clay, knife engraved under partial brushed glaze with decoration in engobes (green, black, white) from the edition of 500. This work is stamped with the 'Madoura PLEIN FEU' and ‘EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO’ pottery stamps on the reverse. Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 5/8in (31.4 x 38.3 x 4.1cm). Madoura was an artisan workshop created by Georges and Suzanne Ramie which collaborated with Picasso in the fabrication and hand painting of the works. Pablo Picasso designed 633 different ceramic editions between 1947 and 1971 at the Madoura workshop, with a number of variants and unique pieces resulting from these initial works. He began by creating simple, utilitarian objects such as plates and bowls, but later produced more complex forms, including pitchers and vases — their handles occasionally shaped to form facial features, or anatomical parts of his animal subjects. Picasso remains one of the highest-grossing artists at auction today, and the range of his ceramics means it's possible to find both a good investment and a beautiful object. Visage Gris is among the most important. A Short Biography follows: Pablo Picasso revolutionized the art world and to many is THE artist of the 20th century. He is famous for his role in pioneering Cubism with Georges Braque and for his melancholy Blue Period pieces. Original signed Picasso lithographs and prints are a sure investment. Madoura Picasso ceramics are highly collectible in their own right. As one of the most influential Modern artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso is renowned as a legendary artistic master to this day. Born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain, Pablo Picasso was a child prodigy who was recognized as such by his art-teacher father, who ably led him along. The small Museo de Picasso in Barcelona is devoted primarily to his early works, which include strikingly realistic renderings of casts of ancient sculpture. Picasso was a rebel from the start and, as a teenager, began to frequent the Barcelona cafes where intellectuals gathered. He soon went to Paris, the capital of art, and soaked up the works of Edouard Manet, Gustave Courbet, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, whose sketchy style impressed him greatly. Then it was back to Spain, a return to France, and again back to Spain – all in the years 1899 to 1904. Before he struck upon Cubism, Picasso went through a prodigious number of styles – realism, caricature, the Blue Period, and the Rose Period. These distinguished styles are apparent in the unique original works as well as Picasso ceramics, lithographs, linocuts, and etchings that he created later in his life. The Blue Period dates from 1901 to 1904 and is characterized by a predominantly blue palette and focuses on outcasts, beggars, and prostitutes. This was when he also produced his first sculptures. The most poignant work of the style, La Vie (1903), currently located in Cleveland’s Museum of Art, was created in memory of his childhood friend, the Spanish poet Carlos Casagemas, who had committed suicide. The painting started as a self-portrait, but Picasso’s features became those of his lost friend. The composition is stilted, the space compressed, the gestures stiff, and the tones predominantly blue. The Rose Period began around 1904 when Picasso’s palette brightened and is dominated by pinks and beiges, light blues, and roses. His subjects are saltimbanques (circus people), harlequins, and clowns, all of whom seem to be mute and strangely inactive. One of the premier works of this period is Family of Saltimbanques (1905), currently in Washington, D.C. at the National Gallery, which portrays a group of circus workers who appear alienated and incapable of communicating with each other, set in a one-dimensional space. In 1905, Picasso went briefly to Holland, and on his return to Paris, his works took on a classical aura with large male and female figures seen frontally or in distinct profile, as in early Greek art. One of the best examples of this style is in the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, NY, La Toilette (1906). Several pieces in this new, classical style were purchased by Gertrude Stein (the art patron and writer) and her brother, Leo Stein. With his groundbreaking 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon...

Amazing blue glazed (Rimini Blu) ceramic ashtray design by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi. Handcrafted in Italy with hand carved geometric design and in a glazed vibrant turq...

Riessner, Stellmacher & Kessel - Imperial Amphora - Art Nouveau buttressed ceramic vase with embossed sunflowers, painted leaves and applied 'jewels' - signed on the base - Austria -...

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...

A very fine Art Deco Wedgwood floral cabinet coffee can and saucer by renowned designed Millicent (Millie) Jane Taplin (British, 1902-1980) and dating f...

This is a beautiful early plate in a printed blue and white chinoiserie pattern and made of a type of earthenware pottery called pearlware, in the very early 19th century, by one of ...

Miniatures Collection: 19 Glazed Ceramic Vases and Bowls by Various Makers, Including Wilhelm Kåge – Sweden and England. Normal wear and tear, micro-damage may occur.

Very interesting 18th century Spanish ceramic wine or oil storage jar with wonderful olive green glaze with raised leaf and floral design ...

Aqua Botanica Bathtub by WL Ceramics Designer: Edward van Vliet Materials: Porcelain Dimensions: H60 x Ø120 cm At WL CERAMICS we make porcelain with passion. We are a family run co...

HORIZON - Mid Century studio pottery basket / bowl / vase with white glazed handle and interior - hand made - featuring incised and white glazed leaves to the exterior of the bowl - ...

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 lovely white squared vase designed by Gunnar Nylund at Rörstrand, the vase is 15.5 cm (6.2") high and 7.5 cm (3") in diameter at the top. It is in excellent condition except from s...

A vase designed by Gunnar Nylund at Rörstrand, the vase is 17.5 cm high and it is in mint condition except from a minor mark in the glaze from the production.

A very rare form, but glazed with the gorgeous mottled and streaky glaze that Fulper Pottery was famous for, this fluted, flaring vase is decorated with deep bas relief leaf and bran...

A deep blue vase with a lovely crystalline glaze designed by Isak Isaksson in Sweden. The vase is 25 cm (10") tall and about 10.5 cm (4.2") wide and it is in excellent condition. Thi...

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...

Beautiful ceramic handmade planter. Carefully crafted, each black ceramic plant pot is thrown and trimmed on the wheel, and every outer spike is i...

Large scale Italian abstract Italian modernist vase created by Marcello Fantoni of Florence, Italy. Vase measures 13 1/4“ in height by 5” square and is signed Fantoni, Italy on the ...

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...

Beautiful midcentury handcrafted bowl by Gustave Reynaud for Atelier Le Murier. Earthenware decorated with scarifications on gray enamel and red copper. Wood firing. Hand written ...

Brilliantly glazed in tones of coral, jet black, plum and moss, this very rare vanity tray depicts a female African figure with a feathered headdress and garlands of flowers, in a tr...

Pablo Picasso’s Tête de Faune (A.R. 51), created in 1948 at the renowned Madoura pottery studio, exemplifies the artist’s ability to transform ceramics into expressive works of art. ...

A stunning Aesthetic Movement William Brownfield plate with a stylised panel and floral design by Christopher Dresser (British, 1834-1904) dating from around 1876. Christopher Dr...

A very fine antique English Staffordshire pearlware blue and white plate decorated with a shepherd with his sheep dating from around 1820. The...

Sculptural Modernist bowl or tray is decorated with hand-painted decor in pastel colors with gold accents on complex textured glaze background. Playfully shaped piece features four ...

A good and finely decorated Aesthetic Movement stoneware jug decorated with fan shape and floral designs by John Pollard Seddon and dating from around 1880. The jug stands on a round...

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 ...

ALISON FENIAK - Mid Century studio pottery candle holders - intermingled matte turquoise and brown glazes - hand made / wheel thrown - each signed and dated on the base - Canada - ci...

A very fine and unique, fresh to market, stoneware studio pottery tile shaped panel hand painted with a rear profile of a walking female nude titled Nude by renowned ceramic artist Eric James Mellon...

Victorian stoneware salt glaze ale pitcher with embossed 'hunt scene' and Prince of Wales feathers at the base of the handle - unglazed interior - ...

Clearly showing the influences of the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstatte, at a time when Vienna led the Germanic world's interpretation of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, this cyli...

A lovely Majolica pink glazed ceramic set of 12 pieces: four large plates, four small plates and four serving bowls. The set has a lovely pale pink color with details in white and ...

This is a rare coffee cup and saucer in ‘The Traveller’ or ‘One Legged Duck’ blue transfer printed, hand gilded pattern by John Turner & family, of Lane End, Longton, Staffordshire. ...

A light blue vase designed by Eva Jancke-Björk at Bo Fajans in Gefle in the 1940s with a lovely relief decor of shells and seaweed. The vase is 18 cm high and in excellent condition.

A unique vase designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane at Rörstrand, it´s 15.5 cm high and in mint condition. It is a unique vas and this one was made in 1963 as you can see on the signature....

This pair of wall pockets are sculptures are marked by an unknown maker, but originated from Japan and date to approximately 1940 and done in the period Mid-Century Modern style. The...

Stunning, sleek and simple Japanese inspired Art Deco serveware set in shiny emerald green and black glaze. Produced at the Upsala Ekeby studio attributed to Harald Östergren, 1930s....