Ceramic Folk Art

A beautiful and quite engaging wonderfully glazed closed-form sculpture with rattle by renowned Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu, famed for her use of color, texture, scale, multiple glazes, and various free-form shapes, including her orb-like moon pots. This high-fired porcelain piece features a vast array of shifting, vibrant, and colorful glazes (with earth tones of greens, burnt yellows, browns, etc... ). The sculpture/vessel radiates in the light. It is a unique and one-of-a-kind work. The closed-form vessel sculpture is signed on the base with her traditional "TT" mark/ monogram. A rare and special piece. Would be a great addition to any collectors of Toshiko's work or other Mid-Century Modern...

Large folk pottery cat figure in abstracted form, sitting alert with ears pricked, circa early 20th century. With terrific, original, cold painted and varnished yellow and red finish...

Ceramic bell by Paolo Soleri c.1960's, USA. This bell features varying nautical creatures around the ceramic bell with a triangular metal clapper representing a fish tail. The bell h...

Exceptional mid century ceramic tile depicting George slaying the dragon, by important ceramicist Jean Nison. The tile is in excellent original condition, free of damage or repair.

A powerful hand-sculpted clay artwork representing a procession of human figures, each joined in a continuous rhythm of movement and unity. This piece reflects the essence of Mexican...

Vintage - Continental - clear glazed terracotta slipware baking dish - the terracotta ground decorated with a stylized flat fish in yellow slip - indistinc...

Art Deco Pottery Iznik style Platter signed Greber Beauvais, circa 1930.

A wonderfully crafted and beautifully glazed (in Fall greens and browns) large bowl/vase by renowned American potter Laura Andreson. Gorgeous in its Mid-Century Modern design and shifting colors. Signed on the base by Andreson. A quite special and rare work. Certainly, one of the best pieces of Andreson's work we have had the pleasure to come across. Highly collectible. Would be a great addition to any midcentury ceramics collection or a very eye-catching stand-alone work in about any setting. Andreson, who studied under Glen Lukens, founded and headed the ceramics department at UCLA from 1933-1970. Her work can be found in many collections and museums worldwide including: Metropolitan Museum of Art The Museum of Modern Art Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Smithsonian Museum of American Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Walker Art Center The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Her exhibitions include: 1937 Rene Rosenthal Gallery, New York City, New York. 1938 First California Ceramic Exhibition, San Diego, California 1940 Honolulu Academy of Art. 1947 Eleventh National Ceramics Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1970 Fredric Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, California. 1970 Laguna Beach Art Gallery. 1971 Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California. 1971 Hoover Art Gallery, San Francisco, California. 1971 San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, California. 1971 Utah State University, Logan, Utah. 1972 Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California. 1972 Ceramics West, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. 1972 Ogden Art Center, Ogden, Utah. 1972 Bower Museum, Santa Ana, California. 1973 Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1973 Clay and Fiber Gallery, Taos, New Mexico. 1973 California Crafts VIII, Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California. 1974 California Ceramics...

Set of Four 18th Century Blue and White Delft Tiles Framed in Custom Iron Frame. Wonderful piece to display.

Urban Minerva designed by Elena Salmistraro for Bosa is a sculpture made of ceramic, with handmade multicolored decorations. The sculpture was born from a collaboration between Bosa ...

Mid-20th Century Globular Vessel, Mangbetu People, D. R. Congo An unusually large and striking non-figurative vessel from the Mangbetu people, comprised of six lobes joined to a c...

A wonderful and scarce 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) o...

Textured studio pottery vase with variegated olive-green and tan glaze. The vessel has a tapered body with a tulip mouth. The base of the vase is a speckled tan while the olive green...

A gorgeous earth-toned, yellow, green, brown speckle glazed ceramic footed bowl by famed Austrian-born British potter Lucie Rie. The bowl is signed with Lucie Rie's impressed seal on the base. A rare and unique work. Simply a must for any collector of Rie's work or a beautiful stand-alone piece sure to light up any setting. Dame Lucie Rie...

Mary Ellen Toya Story Teller Jemez Mexico 7.25" tall with 11 babies. Singing Mother Motif, Singing Traditional Cochiti Songs. Am listing many American Ind...

A pair of round Acoma pueblo pottery vessels. Each is decorated with intricate geometric designs and natural pigment paints of black, brown, and orange on white clay. They are handmade from native Acoma clay, and pit fired in the traditional fashion. The Acoma Pueblo is a Native American pueblo approximately 60 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Four communities make up the village of Acoma Pueblo: Sky City, Acomita, Anzac, and McCartys. Maker: Reyes Pino of the Zia Pueblo...

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...

This vintage 20th-century French table liqueur set is a charming and decorative piece, perfect for collectors or as a unique display item. The set includes a wooden barrel and six sm...

Glazed earthenware medaillon, decorated with fantastical animals by Jérôme Galvin. Artist’s signature at the base. 2025. Unique piece. H: 12.9 × 12.9 x 2.2 inches. - Born in 1975 i...

Set of seven flow blue collection in mint condition and hand-painted. This is a real find and great colors. Mush cup and saucer measure - Mush cup - 6 inches x 5 inches x 3.5 in...

Ceramic plate by Roger Capron, Vallauris, France, signed

Pareja de Ánforas de cerámica de Fajalauza - Granada , vidriada o esmaltada , S.XIX . Perfecto estado Pareja de Ánforas ce cerámica de Fajalauza - Granada , vidriada , S.XIX .

La Borne Original and decorative 20th century ceramic bottle or vase Signed under the base Elegant brown ceramic glaze color Original perfect condition Measures: Heig...

This highly decorated stoneware crock is in fine condition and has double handles. This is decorated all the way around. It was found in Penn...

A good antique Palissy Ware style Portuguese majolica wall plate, circa 1900. The plate decorated with a large lobster to the center resting on a textu...

A wonderful and rare/scarce early 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 Memphis Group, an international design movement that came out of Italy during the 1980s (1980-1988), and specialized in postmodern furniture, lighting, fabrics, carpets, ceramics, glass, and metal objects. This beautifully decorated and glazed honey pot is signed (with Shire's customary "Made in Echo...

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 ...

Vintage porcelain base neon sign advertising Weather-Bird Shoes, a line of outdoor waterproof shoes manufactured by Peters, Division of International Shoe Co., St. Louis, MO. This p...

Glazed earthenware medaillon, decorated with fantastical animals by Jérôme Galvin. Artist’s signature at the base. 2025. Unique piece. H: 7.9 × 7.9 x 3.5 inches. - Born in 1975 in ...

ceramic sculpture cup by Annick Bailly A sculpture cup by French contemporary sculptor Annick Bailly. With its abstract, shell-like form, this sculpture has links with Georgia O'Kee...

A unique and rare piece by influential Mid-Century Modern ceramist Glen Lukens whose work has become very collectible and relatively scarce and difficult to find. Lukens was the founder of the University of Southern California...

Hand-thrown and hand-decorated studio pottery bowl featuring a low, rounded profile with a wide shoulder and narrow mouth. The exterior is finished in a charcoal-gray to slate ground...

Moorish ceramic Moroccan glazed polychrome jar tureen with cover. Hand painted ceramic Jubbana, handcrafted by skilled Moroccan artisans in Fez Morocco. ...

Acoma Pueblo Ceramic Cat Figurine - Native American Art - Hand Painted in geometric turquoise and black and terracotta.

Terracotta bulldog Bavent signed Filmont, circa 1900.

Folkloric ceramic nativity set decorated in Tonalá, Jalisco, México. Beautifully hand painted. Handmade in clay. Includes 14 figures. The figures are first handmade in clay and burned in a wood burned oven at low temperature, then painted with acrylic paint and decorated manually. Mexican folk art...

Antique handcrafted large Moroccan Moorish polychrome decorative ceramic bowl from Fez. Bleu de Fez, very nice designs hand painted by artist in Fez. Antique ceramic handcrafted bowl...

Glazed stoneware table with geometric decoration by Georges Martin. Artist signature on the base. Circa 1970-1980. Unique piece. H : 14.6 x 17.7 x 31.7 inches.

A wonderful work by East Coast/ Massachusetts master potter William Wymann. This piece features a fantastic texture and rich, sumptuous, deep ocean-like blue crackle glaze that chang...

Large vintage Talavera hand painted studio ceramic Rooster - featuring a typical brightly colored multi pattern design - unsigned - Mexico - circa 1980's. Excellent/mint vintage con...

A beautiful and quite engaging gorgeously glazed Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired bowl features a Tenmoku glaze with an a...

These "spring palace paintings" (春宫畫), Chinese erotic porcelain figurine were historically given to brides and young couples, sometimes as a form of "sex education" in a culture wher...

Important sculpture with wings in black glazed stoneware by Jean-Pierre Bonardot. Handwritten signature of the artist. Unique piece. 2022. H : 23.6’ x 7.08’ x 7.08’ inches. - Born...

This collection is a work of art that make a statement in modern décor and in the modern cultural art world. It can be used as a vase containing flowers, or as a beautiful centerpiec...

Discover the elegance of 20th-century French design with this antique ceramic three-branch chandelier. Crafted in faience with a striking blue and black cracked glaze finish, it meas...

A pyxis (pl. pyxides) is a small round box, probably used for storing trinkets, ointments or cosmetics. The lidded vase is of spherical form with a ribbed black-glazed semi-circular ...

Elegant white and blue jar made with the authentic Talavera technique. Master artisan, 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...

Art Deco pottery vase signed Charles Greber, circa 1930. 3 fantastic animals as handles.   

We offer a stunning Earthenware clay fired pottery vase in hues of brown and white in the style of Nemadji. Each piece is coil built and painted with clay slips and bee-weed. An ama...

Porcelain sculpture entitled "Solstice" . Unique piece. Signed under the base. 2022. - Born in 1973 in Belgium, lives and works in the Gers, France. Observing nature evolve and t...

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...

A beautiful and quite engaging relatively large sumptuously glazed bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The high-fired stoneware bowl features a v...

This vintage Sadler England teapot in brown ceramic is a delightful example of traditional English craftsmanship. Measuring 4.9 inches (12.5 cm) in heig...

A fantastic, freeform, large, heavy plate/ charger by American master potter Peter Voulkos who is known for his abstract expressionist ceramic pottery pieces and sculptures. Very unique and scarce work with rare use of color. Very hard to come by. One of our personal favorites along with the Chawan tea bowl. Signed on base and dated (1961) by Voulkos. This was made during one of his most magical and experimental phases. From of Private Collection, New York. Voulkos is widely considered to be the most important and impactful ceramist of the modern era. He won the Rodin Museum Prize at the first Paris Biennale in 1959 and was the winner of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1984. Voulkos received the College Art Association’s Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1997. He was made an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 2001. He also received six honorary doctorate degrees as well as three National Endowment for the Arts awards. His work can be found in many prominent collections and museums including: Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Nagoya, Japan Albany Mall, Albany, New York American Museum of Ceramic Art...

A Colima shark effigy vessel. Mexico. 1st Century BC - 2nd Century AD. On stand : 7.5" h

Pre-Colombian Casas Grande Olla Pot, Arizona, c. 1150-1450 , Zoomorphic Polychrome Decoration. The Casas Olla Pot is made of clay and has a rounded, bulbous shape. It's surface is de...

A captivating ode to traditional craftsmanship and modern sensibility, this anthropomorphic vase of a Sicilian woman recalls the grandeur of Sicily's Arab domination. Crafted with care by master ceramicist Stefania Boemi, this piece is hand glazed in a deep black matte hue and boasts an expressive visage with an ornate headdress and crown flanked by locks of hair intertwined with Sicilian lemons...

A vintage Italian mid century modern ceramic table lighter by Aldo Londi for Bitossi, imported by Rosenthal-Netter, 1960s. This unique lighter boasts tones of marigold, tangerine, an...

Pre-Columbian Terracotta Vessel, Colima, Western Mexico A classic shaman’s head vessel having a horn strapped onto the forehead with a slip-painted headband, coffee bean eyes, sharp...

Love this painting. The original "The smiling boy" by Frans Hals, 17th century. This Delfs blue tile panel image is hand painted by Nico Koelewijn in the 19...