Europe - Ceramics

Beautiful antique soup tureen by the ceramic manufacturer "Saint Amand et Hamage (Nord)". Stamp at the bottom. France, circa 1900.

These splendid ceramic creations are born from the artistic laboratory of Mosche Bianche. The piggy bank, a means that has always been used to remind us of the importance of savi...

A large art nouveau vase in ceramics designed by Josef Ekberg at Gustavsberg in 1918. The vase is 27.5 cm tall and in excellent condition except from some minor marks and age-based c...

Extremely rare and collectible, this large set of original French Michelin Man tiles from circa 1960 offers a striking opportunity to acquire an authentic piece of 20th-century comme...

Large bunny money bank by Søholm in Denmark for the Danish Bank AL (Arbejdernes Landsbank). It features a delightful caramel glaze and its original stopper...

Antique Japanese Imari Charger having foliate and bird decoration, impressed mark and three character marks to base. Lovely colours and condition.

This is a very beautifully hand painted Chinese porcelain blue and white Dish or Plate from the Qing, Kangxi period ( 1662-1722), dating to Circa 1680 or slightly earlier This is a well potted dish with 16 lobes or ribs, a wavy barbed rim, a very well cut foot rim and a very white glaze. The plate is very finely hand painted in a free flowing style, characteristic of the period, in varying shades of a clear cobalt blue, from the very dark to the very light blue. The central well is hand decorated with an iconic outdoor...

These original vintage vase was produced in the 1970s in Germany. It is made of ceramic pottery. The bottom are marked the vase series number 40 Handarbeit Straight forward and min...

Large Pair Of Antique Staffordshire Dogs in the classic sitting position with beautiful red and white colouring and matching gilt pa...

Large beautiful figurative sculpture by Danish artist Jens Jacob Bregnø in jugend style. The sculpture is made of raw sandstone and is signed by the ...

SHIPPING POLICY: No additional costs will be added to this order. Shipping costs will be totally covered by the seller (customs duties included). The centre painted with archaic de...

A standout centrepiece, the Verona vase is handmade in Italy. Our design comes in four colourways: pink & blue, tan & ivory, yellow & verde and terracotta & cream. Height: 20cm Hei...

Rare antique item from Rörstrand. The Rörstrand company has produced ceramics for nearly 300 years and is one of Sweden’s oldest industries. The Swedish Porcelain Works was founded i...

Gio Ponti two 'Vendemmia' series tiles in frames for Richard Ginori, Italy, 1920s Fully marked.   

Vintage Italian modernist soft shaped triangular decorative bowl / wall plate by Fratelli Fancuillacci, late 1950s-early 1960s. Three stylized deer on ea...

A good large and well painted poole pottery bowl decorated with the Blue Rooster pattern by Truda Carter and dating from the 1960’s. The bowl stands rais...

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 beautiful Art Deco tea pot with lid, dated circa 1940, made of pottery / stoneware with lovely brown glaze, designed by Vally Wieselthier. In very good ...

A lovely set of 10 Art Nouveau majolica plates, made by Villeroy & Boch. Colorful pattern with water lilies. The plates date from circa 190...

This is a midcentury hexagonal baluster vase, a 20th century, Chinese ceramic urn. Attractive Chinese baluster vase Profusely decorated from neck to base Free from any damage o...

This is a very good stone China (Ironstone) Deep Desert Plate or Saucer Dish, hand painted in the tobacco leaf pattern, number 2061, made by the Spode factory in the early 19th centu...

Fine teardrop shaped Roger Capron ceramic vide poche with pyjama decoration. Produced at his workshops in Vallauris in the 1950s

Huge ceramic dish from the Sant-Vicens pottery workshops in Perpignan (south of France). Drawing made by Jean Picart Le Doux. Black and green stylized bird on an intense blue back...

Vase made in the Tarnowiec Glassworks located in Poland, designed by J. Słuczan-Orkusz. Soda glass, mass-colored, hand-formed. Vintage product from 1970s Dimensions: height 14 cm...

A rare and beautiful wall relief featuring a beautifully hand-painted woman, designed by Birger Kaipiainen for Rörstrand and manufactured in Sweden in the 1950s. Kaipiainen spent onl...

Blue twisted vase in amazing organic shape. Produced in 1960s. Glass in perfect condition. The vase looks like it has just been taken out of the box. No jags, defects etc. The outer...

Large stoneware glazed decorative vase. Midcentury era design featuring hand drawn strips of blue colored glaze, Germany, 1960s. Perfect condition. Measures: Height 40 cm.

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...

This is a good stone China (Ironstone pottery) Small Dish or Bowl / Saucer, hand painted in the tobacco leaf pattern, number 2061, made by the Spode factory in the early 19th century...

Large ceramic vase from Danish Søholm Stentøj, produced on the island of Bornholm in the 1960s. Rich glazing and decorative striped ornamentation. W...

Composed of fine white ceramic braids made entirely by hand forming the base of the lamp. It is dressed with a round lampshade made of off-white cotton. It is signed under the base (...

Featuring Classical Scenes From our Ceramics collection, we are pleased to offer this Vienna Porcelain Vase. The Vienna Vase of classic Roman shape with flared rim and pinched neck ...

This is a beautifully hand painted Chinese Export porcelain plate or bowl from the Qing, Kangxi period, 1662-1722, fully marked to the base with the Kangxi period Artemisia Leaf mark within a double blue ring. The plate is of dinner plate size, finely potted with a carefully cut base rim and a lovely rich glassy, white glaze with a light blue tinge. The plate is carefully hand painted in a free flowing style, characteristic of the period, in varying shades of a clear cobalt blue, iron red and gold. The central well is decorated in the Imari style with flowering peonies, asters and other flowers and grasses, with a small insect flying above the flowers, all within two sets of concentric blue circles. The outer rim is richly decorated with flower sprigs and leaves, all within an outer blue circle. The base of the plate has a recognized and documented hand painted Kangxi symbol of an Artemisia Leaf, within a double blue ring. See Page 168 of "How to Identify Old Chinese Porcelain" by Willoughby Hodgson and published by Forgotten Books. A Kangxi plate...

Tanoa is a large bowl, designed with simplicity and masterful skill of the raku firing technique expressing the master artisan will in its white crackle drippings and black burn clay...

This striking sculpture is part of the Anatomica series by Vito Nesta, featuring decorative objects with simple and essential anatomical shapes characterized by bold, contrasting col...

Set of 2 vintage Gucci porcelain plates in the motif of poker cards / Made in Italy Original stamp on the base Diameter: 8.5 inches, height 1 inch set of 2 available in stock in Ital...

This 19th-century French confit pot showcases the rustic charm of Provincial stoneware, featuring a beautiful yellow glaze typical of the region. Used historically for preserving mea...

Painted ceramic, very good original vintage condition. No damages or cracks. Beautiful and unique decorative sculpture. Horse sculpture was produced in England. Only one item available.

Large Italian vase of the mid-20th century. Ceramic object enameled and hand painted with decorations of character and oriental style. Vase with lid adorned with sculpture depicting ...

Dutch Delft Kolf Tile. An early Dutch delft blue and white golf tile - hand painted with a Kolf scene depicting a Colf/ Kolf player. The blue image is on an off white background with...

French Art Deco ceramic fish sculpture by Santiago Rodriguez Bonome, France, 1920s. Superb work with Bonome's specific colors : green, red and blue. Height: 15.6"(39.5cm) , Width: 14...

The coastal Italian touch your home has been missing. This little shell dish is perfect placed in an entryway or stashed on a bedside table. Handmade in Italy by artisans and finishe...

Rare antique item from Rörstrand. The Rörstrand company has produced ceramics for nearly 300 years and is one of Sweden’s oldest industries. The Swedish Porcelain Works was founded i...

very rare stackable ceramic "cone" set, production Franco Pozzi Pierre Cardin designed by Ettore Sottsass rare white / light green alternating...

This is a very good 19th century Chinese Export, (Canton) deep plate or dish, which we date to the early 19th century, circa 1820 of the Qing dynasty. The plate has a light green,...

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...

Immerse yourself in the artistic legacy of Catalan artist Diaz Costa with our vintage hand-painted ceramic plate artwork, circa 1960. This exquisite piece captures the essence of mid...

Vase made in the Tarnowiec Glassworks located in Poland, designed by J. Słuczan-Orkusz. Soda glass, mass-colored, hand-formed. Vintage product from 1970s Dimensions: height 29 cm...

These are a very good PAIR of early Mason's Ironstone pottery Desert Plates or Dishes in the very decorative Water Lily pattern, produced by the Mason's factory at Lane Delph, Staffo...

This a mid size, Early 19th Century Platter of over 12 inch width made by Mason's Ironstone in the Bamboo and Basket Chinoiserie pattern, dating to the English Georgian period, Circa...

Bring the beauty of the garden to your home with our hand-painted radicchio-style plate in a pink hue. Perfect for tableware, this serving tray/platter adds a touch of natural elegan...

Early Arista y cuenca tile made in Toledo. Tile decorated in renaissance with stylized flowers was probably made between 1550 and 1575.

Ceramic Lenci..." Our Lady of Peace"

A beautiful stoneware vase with amazing glaze. Made by Claes Thell, in the artist's studio, Höganäs, Sweden, 1970. Excellent condition. Signed Thell '70. Claes Thell is a Swedish ...

'Rimini blu' glazed ceramic vase designed by Aldo Londi for by Bitossi. Italy, 1960s. This eye-catching vase is made of blue glazed ceramic with engraved patterns surrounding the cen...

Vintage glass in very good condition. The vase looks like it has just been taken out of the box. No jags, defects etc. Only one unique piece.

Wall panel composed of a very rare group of 6 ceramic tiles designed in 1960 by Gio Ponti for Joo Ceramiche Milano, "diamond" model, fire-red in white aluminum frame. The whole panel...

Set of Spanish tiles of the 'dos por tabla/ type in the Arista y cuenca tile made in Toledo. This particular type was to adorn ceilings. Tile decorated in renaissance style with a c...