Folk Art Ceramics
FOLK ART STYLE
Folk art is a genre of art that shares the creator’s traditions, offering not just an artistic display but an opportunity to learn about a culture. Antique, new and vintage folk art typically reflects a heritage or location. It can include utilitarian objects and handmade art as diverse as weather vanes, duck decoys, portraiture and paintings, carnival art and quilts.
Quilts are a quintessential part of American folk art but their roots are international, with quilting dating back to Ancient Egypt. The practice spread to Europe and was especially prominent in the Middle Ages, with one of the oldest surviving examples being the Tristan quilt made in Sicily in the 14th century. They were made as bedcovers and clothing, including as a layer for knights to wear beneath their armor. Native American folk art includes functional objects reflecting their heritage, such as baskets, textiles and wooden pieces.
Elsewhere, the vast range of work associated with Mexican folk art includes masks made by Mexican craftspeople for traditional celebrations and ceremonial dances. Mexican masks are part of the country’s folk-art traditions that go back thousands of years and play a role in festivals and theater.
Works in the folk art tradition are valuable because of the skills involved, like weaving, hand-carving wood and even stonework. Many folk artists are self-taught, while some train as apprentices within their community. By using available materials and taking a personal approach to their creations, artists ensure each piece is unique and conveys a story.
During the Great Depression, artistic materials in America were hard to come by, so artisans used discarded wood from cigar boxes and shipping crates to make highly stylized, notched pieces — most often picture frames and boxes — that are today sought after by collectors. This folk art style is called tramp art and was popular from roughly 1870 until the 1940s.
Folk art brings vibrant culture and traditions into your home. Browse an extensive collection of antique, new and vintage folk art on 1stDibs.
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Style: Folk Art
Marbled Roadside Pottery Malachite Look Bowl in with Glazed Turquoise Interior
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A petite small clay roadside decorative touring bowl. This catchall or dish is short, and wide, and decorated with a malachite look green marbled design on the exterior. The inside is glazed in deep verdigris or turquoise. A lovely piece of earthenware, it is hand made and marked on the bottom with:
Central City...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware, Paint
English Staffordshire Ceramic Toby Jug Figure
Located in Bradenton, FL
English Staffordshire ceramic Toby Jug figure with jug in right hand and sitting on a barrel. "Hearty Good Fellow" type with polychrome underglaze colors, de...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Mexican Day of the Dead Ceramic Collection
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a wonderful Folk Art collection of Mexican traditional Day-of-the-Dead ceramic figures. Although unsigned these figures are in the style of the Aguilar Family of Oaxacan pott...
Category
Late 20th Century Mexican Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Folk Art Studio Pottery Bunny
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Folk Art Studio Pottery Bunny - We shop a lot and this bunny is one of our favorite finds. A precious little thing with a great spirit and energy. A compl...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Janice Weisler Vintage Earthenware Handcrafted Lidded Bowl Hues of Brown America
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage earthenware handcrafted lidded bowl in hues of brown for Preservatives, Sugar, Candy Bowl, made in America.
Stamped at the base, Janice We...
Category
Late 20th Century American Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware
Tonala Folk Art Bird Mexican Hand Painted Colorful Pottery 1960s
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Tonala Folk Art Pottery Plate Hand Painted Flying Bird, Mexico, circa 1960's.
Vintage Mexican Tonala hand painted pottery bird Folk Art.
Flora de la Cruz ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Folk Art Geometric Black and White Flower Vase
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A small round geometric flower vase in black and cream. The body of this piece is wide in form and is decorated with deep brown or black swirl designs on a cream background. The bott...
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
California Studio Organic Pottery Vessel Brush Pot Vase
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Studio organic pottery vessel brush pot vase with incised Geometric pattern.
A very nice California studio pottery earthenware vase with beautiful grayish blue and brown earth tones.
The vase has a wonderful free form design featuring abstract stroke...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
1950s French Friar Ceramic Liquor Bottle
Located in High Point, NC
A selection of ceramic bottles from France, produced between the 1950s and 1970s. With their floor length brown cassocks cinched at thick waists with a rope, these friar themed vinta...
Category
1950s French Vintage Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Cork
Antique Ceramic Egg Shape Native American Hand Decorated Seed Pots, Set of 2
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A pair of ceramic egg shape Native American seed pots. Each pot is ovular and egg-like in shape and features a small hole at the base of each pot. Pots like these were used to store ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
19Thc Marbleized Stone Ware Piggy Bank
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a very early stone ware glazed piggy bank from New England. This is a handmade piggy bank in very good condition.
Category
1870s American Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Early 20th Century Porcelain Maneki Neko, Japan
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early 20th century porcelain Maneki Neko, Japan
This porcelain Maneki Neko, the good fortune beckoning cat, is a molded seated form with the right raised ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Decorated Stoneware Blue Decorated Crock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine double handled blue decorated stone ware crock is in good condition with minor chip on interior. There is an embossed three above the hand painted and decorated flowers on ...
Category
1850s American Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Green Swirl Ceramic Touring Pottery Folk Art Pot in Green and Brown
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful green, brown, and cream touring pot or planter. This piece is glazed on the interior in rich emerald verdigris blue-green glaze and will be perfect for use as a planter.
Bottom reads in black:
Made in Cripple Creek...
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Small Ceramic Blue and White Marbled Pinch Pot Vase
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful small ceramic pinch pot vase. Created from clay, this fun piece will be fantastic used in a grouping of other vases and filled with your ...
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Ceramic Hen Whistle from Mexico, 1980s
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Painted ceramic hen whistle from Morelos, Mexico, 1980s. These figure were available in the traveling carnivals in the early 1980s.
Category
1980s Mexican Vintage Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Glazed Terracotta Vase, Circa 1950
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This vase is made of glazed terracotta. African work. Circa 1950.
Category
1950s French Vintage Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Mid Century Ceramic Vessel Vase or Carafe in Blue and Brown, Signed
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A unique ceramic jug or vase with a handle. This piece is created from ceramic and circular in form. The body is decorated in a textured blue and brown design. The neck is narrow, an...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
19th Century Rare Stick Spatter Rabbit Plates / Set of Four
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These wonderful 19th century hand painted rabbit plates are in pristine condition. Its very hard to find sets of four of the rabbit and frog stick spatter...
Category
19th Century American Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
German Antique Handmade Salt Glazed Fruit Patterned Stoneware Bottle
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional and unusual antique German salt glazed hand worked stoneware bottle decorated with stylised fruit designs dating from the 19th centur...
Category
1870s German Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Green Swirl Ceramic Touring Pottery Vase
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful green, brown, and cream touring pottery vase. Wide at the bottom, and slim towards the top, this piece will be a fantastic pop of color in any space.
Glazed on the inside in a verdigris blue.
Bottom reads in black:
Made in Cripple Creek...
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Large Scale Mexican Folk Art Ceramic Angel Vessel
Located in Atlanta, GA
Large scale Mexican Folk Art ceramic or stoneware angel vessel, Mexican, circa 1950s. We purchased the estate of an Atlanta Coca Cola executiv...
Category
1950s Mexican Vintage Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Whimsical Ceramic Pink and Green Spring Theme Platter Made in Portugal
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A whimsical round ceramic platter made in Portugal. The decorative plate is decorative in whimsical design of Spring. A rabbit in gray, castle and bird are surrounded by hand painted flourishes and stylized flowers. A braided ceramic...
Category
20th Century Portuguese Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Large Red and White Hand Painted Ceramic Italian Soup Cup, Italy
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful large hand painted soup cup with handle made in Italy. Italian folk pottery has become highly coveted in recent years. This piece features a hand ...
Category
20th Century Italian Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Rare 12 Pcs. Sponge Ware Child's Tea Set
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine and rare 19thc sponge ware tea set is in good condition and very rare to find. Teapot, sugar & creamer. Two cups & saucers. Four mini plates.
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
1880 French Country Pair of Navy Blue Edged Folk Art Majolica Decorative Plates
Located in New York, NY
Two quite rare earthenware sculptural decorative plates in barbotine, dated 1880, handcrafted in Clermont Ferrand, central part of France, by Charles ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
1970 Outsider Art Figural Stoneware Decorative Plate
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Charming outsider art charger / decorative plate depicting a jovial young girl. Pleasant color palette and figure with age-appropriate crazing to the glaze...
Category
1970s American Vintage Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Ceramic Sculpture with a Group of Playing Putti's 19th Century Belgium
Located in Antwerp, BE
Beautiful in detail and charming 19th century unglazed terracotta sculpture. Features a design of three cherubic children with lamps and fruit, playing with two goats on the base of ...
Category
1890s Belgian Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Terracotta
Mexican Ceramic Jug Vase Fishes 1994 Dolores Porras Folk Art Decorative Vessel
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
1990s Mexican Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Enamel
Mexican Antique Dolores Porras Clay Pottery Folk Art Terracotta Vessel Vase
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
This one of a kind Mexican antique is one of few pieces Dolores had at her home at the time she passed away. Dolores portrays the flora from her garden...
Category
Early 2000s Mexican Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Clay, Pottery, Terracotta
Black Clay Barro Negro Pottery Hot Chocolate Set Oaxaca Mexico Mugs & Fish Tray
Located in Topeka, KS
Handsome black clay or barro negro pottery hot chocolate set most likely from Oaxaca, Mexico consisting of 4 mugs, tray with Fish design, and wooden ...
Category
20th Century Mexican Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Clay
19th Century Sponge Ware Bulbous Soft Paste Pitcher
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th century sponge ware soft paste design sponge soft paste pitcher. The condition is very good and this is most unusual.
Category
19th Century American Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Collection of 19th Century Spatter Ware / Soft Paste Pitchers, 3
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Collection of three 19th century spatter ware water pitchers in pristine condition. The shorter of the three is really quite unusual and is more of a desi...
Category
Early 19th Century American Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
20th Century Ransbottom Spongeware Water Cooler
Located in Los Angeles, CA
20th century Ransbottom spongeware pottery water cooler. Complete with lid and faucet in pristine condition.
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Hand Thrown Glazed, Signed and Dated Artisanal Ceramic Pottery Bowl
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Wheel thrown pottery glazed with a white glaze decorated with a hand painted blue flower pattern.
This is a one of a kind object made in the ancient way by hand in a small artisanal ...
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Round Resin Stone Seashell Decorative Dish
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Round stone resin seashell serving dish or platter. The piece is very heavy and is blue, light gray and yellow in color. Three indentions in the shape of shells for serving oysters, ...
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Cast Stone
Mexican Colorful Folk Art Ceramic Vase Tecuanes Dance Vessel
By Los Castillo
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
Beautiful Mexican ceramic vase made with cooked clay and decorated with acrylic paint.
The vessel represents the traditional dance for the good...
Category
2010s Mexican Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Clay, Ceramic, Acrylic
Very Stylish Drip Glazed Folk Art Vase
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Very stylish drip glazed Folk Art vase
This beautiful pottery Vase, dating from the 1960s, has an attractive and colourful drip painted decoration, it has a glazed finish and in...
Category
1960s Vintage Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Folk Art Sussex Pottery Pig Jug and Cup from the Belle-Vue Pottery, Rye
Located in Downingtown, PA
Best example I've ever had.
Folk Art Sussex pottery pig jug and cup,
from the Belle-Vue Pottery, Rye, UK,
circa 1870.
This Sussex pig from the Bell...
Category
1870s English Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Ceramic Terracotta Sculpture Reclining Nude Figure in the Manner of Henry Moore
By Henry Moore
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Contemporary figural unglazed terracotta sculpture of an abstract reclining figure. An homage to sculptor Henry Moore. Made in 2019 by Oklahoma artist Emily Ladow Reynolds.
Dimen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Terracotta
19th Century Monumental Sponge Ware Turkey Platter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large amazing 19th century sponge ware platter is in pristine condition and has a interesting slight warping as was in the making. The condition is very good. The shape is very ...
Category
Early 19th Century American Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
19th Century Smith & Snows Whiteroot Pottery Bitters Bottle, Dated 1873
By Smith & Snow White Root
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early handmade pottery bitters bottle is signed and dated by the maker Pat. July. 17. 66 and Patd. & Co. 1873 . This pottery bottle is in pristine ...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
19th Century Sponge Ware Pottery Serving Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a large 19th century sponge ware serving bowl with a fluted rim. The condition is very good.
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
19th Century Large Sponge Ware Serving Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This most unusual shaped 19th century sponge ware bowl has a wonderful fluted shape and makes a great serving bowl or fruit bowl. The condition is ver...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Pottery Vase, Northern Thailand, 14th-16th Century
Located in New York, NY
Natural feldspathic, wood-ash glazed ceramic vessel with four small handles and a flared mouth.
OUR REFERENCE N7597
Category
16th Century Thai Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Sand Mountain Alabama Canning Jar circa 1890 Attributed EE McPherson Shop
Located in Mobile, AL
Sand Mountain Alabama pottery is well known, oft curated and infrequently available on the market. The variety of glazes, forms and makers is remarkabl...
Category
1890s American Antique Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Brown Ceramic Vase, Folk Art, Czechoslovakia, 1950s
Located in Zohor, SK
Beautiful vintage vase, made of ceramic with glazed finish. Interesting design and color combination. The vase is in a brown shade of color with a blue details on the neck of the vas...
Category
Mid-20th Century Slovak Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage French Ceramic Bottle
Located in High Point, NC
A glazed ceramic bottle, depicting a hunter standing on top of a pointer dog. Made in France between 1950 and 1960, a wealth of charming detail lends verisimilitude to the absurd sce...
Category
1950s French Vintage Folk Art Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Folk Art ceramics for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique folk art ceramics for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage ceramics created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include folk art, decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with ceramic, pottery and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Folk Art ceramics made in a specific country, there are North America, United States, and Mexico pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original ceramics, popular names associated with this style include Tonala Pottery, Marco Antonio Castillo , Dolores Porras , and Aurelio Martinez Flores. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for ceramics differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $75 and tops out at $16,000 while the average work can sell for $550.
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