Vintage ‘Lustucru Blu' French Kitchen Blue & White Ceramic Pantry Canisters S/3

A hand made, French Copper Turbotiere, a Turbo fish Poacher with iron handles, France c. 1830-1850. Weighing a heavy SEVEN pounds! This copper and iron, diamond shaped fish poache...

A rustic hand hammered Brass Milk Jug from Normandy, France, Circa 1850 A large piece of hand made brass used to transport milk from the country dairy to the home, often by donkey. The outer body shows the textured surface left by the hammering technique used in the making of this piece. The jug is formed of two pieces of brass meeting at the mid-section with a decorative joint. With the original lid. The lid has a wide collar that sits inside the top of the jug, keeping the contents from spilling during transport. A thick handle is securely attached to the body. During the early to the mid 1800’s, dairy farmers would transport milk from their farms to the local market where patrons would bring their own containers for filling. The early 1900’s saw the use of milk delivery trucks...

From France, a super-sized and unusual oval shaped carboy or demijohn, made up of a pale aqua colored, mouth blown glass bottle clad in a hand woven wicker casing with side carrying ...

A rarely found English Majolica mask handled and climbing Ivy water pitcher, marked Samuel Alcock & Co. circa 1875. A round bellied cobalt blue body ...

A large and heavy Vindefontaine Beverage Fountain, Normandy, France, circa 1840 – 1850. Referred to as a fountain, this vessel was used for the storing and serving of water or wine....

Found in France, a set of four, large glass canning preserve jars with chromolithographed labels for vegetable seeds, circa early 1900s. The jars were repurposed for storing veget...

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...

An assortment of glazed ceramic bottles in the shape of drinking men. Made in France between 1950 and 1960, the bottles depict people of various nationalities raising a toast with th...

Blue vase in enameled ceramic Signed under the base "Sevres, Made in France".

Rare design by Aldo Londi for Bitossi. Rimini Blue ceramic footed vase with geometric motifs, Italy, 1960s This stunning glazed ceramic vase has a pattern with circles in dark blue with rhombus inside in shades of green / turquoise color accented by decorative flowers. Excellent vintage condition. This piece is perfect as a gift idea and it could placed alone or with other 'Rimini Blu'Bitossi pieces creating a set. Display it in a cabinet or on a console table, with flowers or just as a cool decorative vase. Measures: 22 cm height x 18 cm diameter (8,66 in height X 7,08 in diameter ) More Bitossi Aldo Londi pieces are avaliable at our 1stdibs marketplace. About Bitossi (Manufacturer) Like a Fellini movie, the ceramics of this famed Italian company embody a creative spectrum that ranges from the playful and earthy to the high-minded and provocative. Based in Florence, Bitossi Ceramiche draws on craft traditions that date back to the 1500s. These find expression in the artisanal vases and animal figures by the firm’s longtime art director Aldo Londi, as well as the colorful, totemic vessels designed by the high priest of postmodernism, Ettore Sottsass. The company was incorporated by Guido Bitossi in 1921, though the family began making art pottery in the mid-19th century. In the 1930s, Londi came aboard, bringing with him a mindset that respected time-honored craft, yet looked also to the future. On the one hand, Londi’s perspective fostered the making of Bitossi’s popular whimsical animal figures, hand-shaped and -carved and finished in a rich azure glaze known as “Rimini Blue.” But with his other hand, Londi reached out to thoughtful, experimental designers such as Sottsass. Starting in the 1950s, some 20 years before he founded the Memphis Postmodern design...

Handmade Scandinavian midcentury modern round ceramic vase. Light aqua blue glaze with caramel colored speckles. Plump shape with short neck. Beautiful vintage condition.

Elegant and important white and blue ceramic vase or bottle. Measure: Height 47cm Signed under the base. Beautiful ceramic glaze colors from the 1950s. Original perfect c...