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Ceramics For Sale
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Bird Ceramic by Arthur Craco, Belgium, 1970s
Located in Brussels, BE
Bird ceramic by Arthur Craco - Belgium, 1970s.
Category
1970s Belgian Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Beatrice Wood Signed Midcentury California Studio Pottery Luster Glaze Vase
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful gem of a piece by famed American/California ceramicist Beatrice Wood featuring her highly coveted, gorgeously radiant turquoise luster glaze. A beautiful design with a delicate long neck rising from a circular base. Classic and timeless.
Signed by Beatrice in her customary "Beato" on the underside of the base (with noted inventory number).
Would be an amazing addition to any Mid-Century Modern pottery collection or personal collectors of her work or a fabulous stand-alone accent piece in about any setting. One of the best Beatrice Wood's luster glaze vases we have come across in quite a while.
Know famously in the art world as "The Mama of Dada", Wood lived a long (1893-1998) and very fruitful, creative life and is considered by many experts and collectors alike to have been a centerpiece in the modern ceramic art movement of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. At one point in her career, Wood studied with master potters Otto and Gertrud Natzler and later become famed in her own right for her distinct luster-glazing techniques. In 1994, the Smithsonian Institution named Wood an "Esteemed American Artist".
Her other awards include:
1994 Governor’s Awards for the Arts (California)
1993 Recognition as A Role Model by Women in Film
1992 Gold Medal for Highest Achievement in Craftsmanship, American Craft Council
1988 Distinguished Service Award, Arizona State University
1987 Fellow of American Craft Council Women’s Art Caucus, National Award (NCECA Award)
1986 Women’s Building Award
1984 Living Treasure of California
1983 Symposium Award of the Institute for Ceramic History
1961 Goodwill Ambassador from USA...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware
Susan Parkinson Studio Pottery Architectural Tankard
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish studio pottery porcelain mug decorated with columns design by Susan Parkinson for the Richard Parkinson Pottery and made between 1953 an...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Tonala Mexico Pottery Modernist Horse Figurines Hand Painted
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
A pair of modernist horse figurines, made in Tonala, Mexico, is in a great vintage condition with no signs of use. The figurines are a size of large chopsticks or knife rests, but i...
Category
Late 20th Century Mexican Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Samuel Mazy Glazed Porcelain Purple and Blue Hydrangea Flower Sculpture
By Samuel Mazy
Located in Toronto, ON
Enhance your table with these delicate porcelain flowers by French artist Samuel Mazy. This purple and blue hydrangea is handmade in glazed porcelain, with handpainted copper leaves ...
Category
2010s French Ceramics
Materials
Copper
Doyle Lane California Studio Pottery Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Three Bead Set
By Doyle Lane
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully designed, gorgeously glazed, original ceramic three three-bead set (one burnt red, one ocean blue, one white crackle glaze) by famed mid-century American artist and potter Doyle Lane...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Antique 18th Century Dutch Delft Tile of a Mermaid & Serpent
By Delft
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique 18th century Dutch Delft pottery tile.
Depicting a mermaid in the ocean wringing a snake with her hands.
Simply a wonderful Dutch Delft tile!
Date:
18th Cent...
Category
18th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Mexican Antique One of a Kind Flower Pot Clay Dolores Porras Ceramic Vase
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
Dolores Porras Enríquez is widely known throughout Mexico and the world for being the creator of a technique rooted in the land of Oaxaca: pottery in natural color, glazed and decora...
Category
1980s Mexican Folk Art Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Enamel
Beatrice Wood Signed Midcentury California Studio Pottery Cat Charger Plate
Located in Studio City, CA
A relatively rare and wonderfully hand-painted charger featuring a mischievous cat by famed American/ California ceramist Beatrice Wood. The portrait of the feline features Wood's un...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware
Barbara Willis Signed Large Mid-Century Modern California Studio Pottery Bowl
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully designed and gorgeously glazed large stoneware Mid-century Modern low bowl by California studio pottery artist Barbara Willis (1917-2011). The elongated curved contour...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Fajalauza Handmade Set of Terracotta Ceramic Bowls, Granada Spain XX
Located in Escalona, Toledo
Set of six decorative blue, green and white glazed terracotta ceramic bowls Spanish Fajalauza from the 20th century made and hand painted.
Fajalauza is a style that originates in th...
Category
1960s Spanish Folk Art Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Traditional Decorative Modernist Ceramic Spanish Tile, circa 1940
By Antoni Gaudí
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Traditional Spanish decorative ceramic tile. Made in the iconic designs of Catalan Modernism.
Manufactured by unknown artist in Spain, circa 1940....
Category
1940s Spanish Jugendstil Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Dora De Larios Signed Mid-Century Modern California Studio Pottery Large Vase
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, rare, and unique large stoneware vase by famed Mexican American California studio art potter Dora De Larios.
De Larios was born in Los Angeles to Mexican immigrant parents. She grew up in the artistic Silver Lake district near downtown Los Angeles amongst Mexican and Nisei Japanese immigrants. As a result, De Larios was heavily influenced by ancient American...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Handcrafted Illustrated Ceramic by Mathew, Spain, 2021
Located in Madrid, ES
Handcrafted ceramic bowl by Mathew. Handpainted panther in light grey over blue background.
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Susan Bennett English Glazed Thrown Studio Pottery Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish thrown and glazed stoneware studio pottery vase with a ribbed body attributed to Susan Bennett (b.1954) and dated 1977. The vase has a bell sha...
Category
1970s English Modern Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Laura Andreson Signed Glazed Mid-Century Modern California Studio Pottery Bowl
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully crafted and beautifully glazed bowl by renowned American California master potter Laura Andreson. This bowl features a deep, mesmerizing, rich purple/blue glaze. Gorgeo...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware
Moroccan Ceramic Blue Bowl Adorned with Silver Filigree from Fez Antique 1920s
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Handcrafted Moorish Moroccan blue decorative ceramic Bowl, dish from Fez.
Moroccan ceramic bowl in Bleu de Fez, very nice designs hand painted by artist in Fez.
Geometrical and flora...
Category
Early 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Turkish Polychrome Hand Painted Ceramic Kutahya Platter
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Turkish polychrome hand painted ceramic Kutahya decorative hanging Plate.
Kütahya is famous for its kiln products, such as tiles and pottery, which...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Moorish Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Authentic Talavera Decorative Vase Folk Art Vessel Mexican Ceramic Blue White
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
Elegant white and blue vessel made with the Talavera technique. Artist, Cesar Torres portraits the colonial art of Mexico.
The Talavera is not just a simple painted ceramic: its exquisite decoration is the product of a delicate process of alchemy that translates into fine enamels. In Puebla, Mexico few people still produce using Talavera with the ancestral techniques.
One of those few is Cesar Torres, Don Cesar learned his art in the workshop of the Uriarte family, an excellent workshop where his grandfather worked. In his creations he uses the black and white mud that is obtained from the nearby hills of Loreto and Guadalupe, and colors of mineral origin that he creates in his workshop with recipes from his grandfather.
All the pieces are modeled in a traditional way and go through a production process that usually takes from one to two months, between drying, burning, and painting.
Being surrounded by a living tradition, Cesar Torres Jr., learned from his father since childhood. Architect by profession, Cesar Jr. has come to revolutionize and modernize with new designs and ideas of the current world, nevertheless always respecting the tradition of the processes and materials that make Talavera a Creole art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Spanish Colonial Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica, Clay
Peter Shire Exp Signed Post Modern Ceramic California Pottery Splatter Cup, 1979
By Peter Shire
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful work by famed Los Angeles (Echo Park), California-based artist Peter Shire who was a founding member (along with Italian designer Ettore Sottsass and others) of The Memph...
Category
1970s American Post-Modern Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Paul Soldner Large Raku Fired Mid-Century Modern Vessel Wall Relief Sculpture
By Paul Soldner
Located in Studio City, CA
An amazing and unique piece by renowned American pottery and ceramic master Paul Soldner who in the 1950s was Peter Voulkos' first student and who later became famed for developing the technique now known as "American Raku...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware
Annikki Hovisaari Signed Arabia Finland Scandinavian Modern Studio Pottery Vase
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful Scandanavian glazed stoneware pottery footed vase by Annikki Hovisaari for Arabia Finland. This piece features a sea-like turquoise/ blue glaze and gourd-like shape.
...
Category
1960s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Porcelain Sculpture "Solctice", by Mart Schrijvers, 2023
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Porcelain sculpture entitled "Solstice" .
Unique piece.
Signed under the base.
2022.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Clyde Burt Signed Large Mid-Century Modern Studio Pottery Ceramic Art Bowl
By Clyde Burt
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful and quite impressive large, heavy, hand-decorated bowl by Ohio-born Midwest American master potter/ artist Cyde Burt who early in his career studied under Maija Grotell...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Big Wall Decoration Ceramic Plate by Roger Collet, Vallauris, circa 1980
By Roger Collet
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A big wall decoration ceramic plate by Roger Collet.
Green and blue, white glazes decoration.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed under the base "Collet".
Category
20th Century French Beaux Arts Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Sculpture "Solctice", Exclusivity for Aurélien Gendras
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Porcelain sculpture entitled "Solstice".
Unique piece.
Signed under the base.
2022.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Mexican Tonala Hand Painted Colorful Pottery Dove
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Mexican Tonala hand painted pottery dove Folk Art.
Rita Tilleya Yelapa Mexico hand painted ceramic bird dove.
Warm earth tone polychrome color...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Wall Sculpture in Glazed Stoneware Entitled « Le Crapeau », Anne Barrès, 1977
By Anne Barrès
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Wall sculpture in glazed stoneware entitled « Le Crapeau » by Anne Barrès.
Artist signature on the back « Anne Barrès ». 1977. Unique piece.
Can be displayed both indoors and outd...
Category
20th Century Beaux Arts Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Rope
Large Glazed Stoneware Screen Composed of 84 Modular Elements, Anne Barrès, 2010
By Anne Barrès
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Large glazed stoneware screen composed of 84 modular elements by Anne Barrès.
2010.
Unique piece.
Can be displayed both indoors and outdoors.
H : 95.5’ x 93.7’ inches (claustr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts Ceramics
Materials
Metal
Mexican Vintage Tonala Pottery Hand Painted Green Duck
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Mexican ceramic duck form Tonala Pottery.
Beautiful vintage Mexican hand made and hand painted TONALA Art pottery.
Vintage Collectible Mexican Tonala hand painted pottery bird Folk Art.
El Palomar...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Antique Moroccan Ceramic Bowl from Fez 1920's
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique hand-painted and handcrafted Moroccan ceramic bowl or wall art decorative plate,
Large Moroccan ceramic bowl handcrafted in Fez by artisans. Hand painted Moorish ceramic pla...
Category
1920s Moroccan Moorish Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Wall Sculpture Entitled «Tressage» in Porcelain, Stoneware and Rope, Anne Barrès
By Anne Barrès
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Wall sculpture entitled « Tressage » in porcelain, stoneware and rope by Anne Barrès.
Circa 1970-1980.
Unique piece.
H : 36.6’ x 20.0’ x 2.7’ inches.
Approximate dimensions.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Wall Sculpture Entitled «Tressage» in Porcelain, Stoneware and Rope, Anne Barrès
By Anne Barrès
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Wall sculpture entitled « Tressage » in porcelain, stoneware and rope by Anne Barrès.
circa 1980-1990.
Unique piece.
H : 31.5’ x 31.9’ x 3.9’ inches.
Approximate dimensions.
Category
20th Century French Beaux Arts Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Antique Ming Dynasty Glazed Pottery Figure circa 16th Century AD
Located in London, GB
Chinese Antique Ming Dynasty glazed pottery figure Ming Dynasty circa (14-16 century AD) China,
The earthenware with green and yellow glaze
Meas...
Category
16th Century Chinese Antique Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Kazuko Matthews Signed Flattened Green Glazed Sculptural Pottery Vase Vessel
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, gorgeously formed, striking work by Japanese American, California architectural potter/ artist Kazuko Matthews.
The large green glazed vase/ sculptural vessel with applied features is signed on the base by Matthews.
Mathews previously studied with famed ceramists couple Otto and Vivia Heino at Chouinard and also with Raku master potter Paul Soldner at Scripps College...
Category
20th Century American Modern Ceramics
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Large Porcelain Biscuit Screen with Four Adjustable Leaves, Anne Barrès, 2010
By Anne Barrès
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Large porcelain biscuit screen with four adjustable leaves by Anne Barrès.
Artist signature on the back. circa 2010. Unique piece. Patinated metal structure. H : 76.6’ x 24.8’ x 3.5...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Ceramics
Materials
Metal
Glazed Stoneware Sculpture Entitled «L’éffondrée Bleue», Anne Barrès, circa 2010
By Anne Barrès
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Glazed stoneware sculpture entitled « L’éffondrée bleue » by Anne Barrès.
circa 2010. Unique piece.
H : 22.4’ x 25.6’ x 27.5’ inches.
Approximates dimensions.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Otto & Gertrud Natzler Signed Soft Pearl Green Blue Glazed Midcentury Bowl
Located in Studio City, CA
Another sublime work by famed pottery masters Otto and Gertrud Natzler. This round-shaped, eggshell thin-walled bowl was hand thrown and formed by Gertrud and glazed by Otto with a beautiful pearl green/blue glaze. The bowl radiates in the light.
This work is sure to give aesthetic pleasure for years to come and would be an amazing addition to any Natzler or modern ceramic collection...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware
Josef Albers Study for Homage to the Square Limited Edition Ceramic Platter 1999
By Josef Albers
Located in Studio City, CA
German-born artist Josef Albers wonderfully designed Homage to the Square, four glazed Italian porcelain ceramic platters, chargers, plates, each hallmarked/stamped on verso, from a limited sold-out edition. Each platter comes in its original box and is based on Albers' 1954 original oil on masonite work. Albers is widely considered one of the most influential artists and teachers of the visual arts in the twentieth century.
The platters were done in a limited edition run of 1500 in 1999 and quickly sold out. They were all made in Italy specifically for MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art).
Would be a great addition to any modern art or ceramic collection. These platters have become rare and scarce - especially in this pristine, as new condition.
Platter dimensions: .75" high, 11.75" wide, 11.75" deep...
Category
20th Century Italian Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Swedish Floral Organic Modern Ceramic Wall Plate / Centerpiece, 1950s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Vintage handmade fully glazed Swedich midcentury modern wall platter / centrepiece with organic, floral decor depicting a gazelle with a direct gaze surrounded by vegetation in brown, ochre, green, white and bright pink colors on a striped dark blue background created with the experimental sgraffito technique that Tilgmans became famous for. Designed and handpainted in the late 1950s by Eivor Lang and manufactured by German/Finnish Paul Harald Tilgman in his workshop in the small town of Kortedala close to Gothenburg, Sweden. Milky white glaze on the base and sides with curved, muted green decor framing the image along the edge. Three holes for hanging - two in use with metal wire. Signed under base. An handpainted piece in beautiful condition.
Paul Harald “Harry” Tilgmann was born in Dresden, Germany in 1904 and emigrated to Sweden during WWII where he started Tilgmans Keramik (= Ceramics) in 1948 in the small town of Utbynäs close to Gothenburg. Tilgman had 16 employees working for him and when he hired the Polish refugee Marian Zawadzki (1912-1978) as artistic director in 1953, Tilgman Keramik started experimenting with the distinct sgraffito technique. The sgraffito technique consists of carving fine lines into the background of a design through a light colored glaze down to a dark grey clay slip. This created a unique textured ground which has become a style associated with Tilgmans Keramik in particular. The decorative elements also appear to be outlined with a carved line and then hand painted with overglazes where birds, fish, flowers, butterflies and other animals were a common theme. This type of work was the most popular in midcentury Sweden alongside Tilgmans small animal figurines...
Category
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Pottery
French Majolica Wire Basket Gien circa 1890
By Gien
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica wire basket Gien circa 1890.
Chinoiserie scene with pagoda.
Category
1890s French Chinoiserie Antique Ceramics
Materials
Wire
Antique Spongeware Bowl. 19th Century
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Lovely spongeware dish
Probably Welsh
Wonderful naive decoration
Category
Mid-19th Century Welsh Folk Art Antique Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Collection of Five 19th Century Sponge Ware Custard Cups
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This collection of five 19th century sponge ware pottery custard cups ate in good condition.
Category
Late 19th Century American Adirondack Antique Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Sponge Ware Pottery Waste Bowls, Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These extra large bowls could be used for many different purposes. Original they were used for waste bowls. They are in mint condition.
Category
Late 19th Century American Country Antique Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Indigo Blue, Pastel Organic Modern Ceramic Art Wall Plate, Denmark
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Unique handmade indigo blue ceramic plate for wall or table decoration. Pastel blue, rose and yellow dots placed along white lines resembling flora...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
19thc Rare Sponge Ware Miniature Teapot
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This very early and rare 19thc sponge ware one cup tea pot is in pristine condition.This wonderful little charming piece is a great addition to any collection.
Category
Early 19th Century American Adirondack Antique Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Monumental Sponge Ware Pottery Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This huge signed Roseville sponge ware pottery mixing bowl is in pristine condition. These large size bowls are super rare and in fine condition is even be...
Category
Early 20th Century American Adirondack Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Vintage Studio Pottery Unglazed Cream Ceramic Pitcher
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A pretty piece of studio pottery. Unglazed and unpainted, this pitcher is created from clay and has no signature. It would be a beautiful piece for display on a shelf or table.
Dim...
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Moroccan Ceramic Bowl with Lid Tajine from Fez Polychrome
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Moroccan large ceramic decorative serving bowl tajine polychrome with leather, stones and metal overlay with conical overlay lid.
The bottom is a circular ceramic bowl and the top of the tagine is distinctively shaped into a cone.
Handcrafted and hand painted with Moorish designs by artisans in Fez Morocco.
Great decorative Moroccan Folk ceramic...
Category
Mid-20th Century Moroccan Moorish Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Quimper French Hand Painted Faience Pottery Flask
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish French faience pottery hand painted flask with a Breton figure by Quimper and dating from the latter 19th century. The small rounded flask has a ...
Category
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Sponge Ware Mixing or Fruit Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This monumental 19th century sponge ware bowl is in pristine condition and it measures 13.5" across. Perfect fruit bowl for a large table.
Category
19th Century American Country Antique Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Art Deco Mint Green and Gold Leaf Ceramic Bowl by Waylande Gregory
Located in Brooklyn, NY
1940s ceramic decorative bowl by Waylande Gregory featuring a highly stylized leaf pattern in mint green with white, black and gold leaf detail. Relatively large compared to more com...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Kazuko Matthews Signed Postmodernist Pottery Checkboard Glazed Ceramic Bowl
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, whimsical work by Japanese American, California architectural potter/ artist Kazuko Matthews.
This large black and white checkboard rhombus-shaped bowl/ vessel is signed on the base by Matthews. The piece is reminiscent of the works of Peter Shire.
Mathews previously studied with famed ceramists couple Otto and Vivia Heino at Chouinard and also with Raku master potter Paul Soldner at Scripps...
Category
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
19thc Decorated Stoneware 3 Gallon Crock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19Thc Original Decorated salt glaze crock from south Western Pennsylvania.This crock is in mint condition. Such a great form.
Category
Mid-19th Century American Adirondack Antique Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Pair of Large French Planters
By Rouen
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Pair of large French planters.
Origin France, circa 1900.
Attributed roun.
Excellent condition. Material: porcelain.
No restorations
In 1644, Nico...
Category
Early 1900s French Empire Antique Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Mexican Tonala Pottery Hand Painted Bird
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Mexican Tonala hand painted pottery bird Folk Art.
Flora de la Cruz Acapulco Gro Mexico hand painted bird dove ceramic.
Warm earth tone polych...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Cobalt Blue Moroccan Ceramic Bowl with Silver Overlay
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Beautiful cobalt blue Moroccan footed ceramic bowl with silvered metal overlay.
Great large decorative ceramic bowl.
Measures: Diameter 11 inches x 4 ...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Ceramics
Materials
Metal
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