Europe - Ceramics

Sculpture in glazed stoneware and engobed by Jean-Pierre Bonardot. Artist signature under the base « JP Bonardot 99 ». Unique piece. 1999. H : 7.08’ x 21.6’ x 13.8’ inches.

Sculpture in glazed stoneware and engobed by Jean-Pierre Bonardot. Artist signature under the base « JP Bonardot ». Unique piece, circa 1990-2000. H : 16.5’ x 23.6’ x 5.9’ inches.

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...

A large and stylish studio pottery bowl decorated with an abstract feather patterned design in a grey powdered glaze by David Leach (1911-2005) and probably dating from his early day...

Sculpture in glazed stoneware and engobed by Jean-Pierre Bonardot. Artist signature under the base « JP Bonardot 05 ». Unique piece. 2005. H : 18.1’ x 11.8’ x 7.08’ inches.

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...

Large wall sculpture entitled « Grande voile » in grey clay and rebar by Anne Barrès. Circa 1970-1980. Unique piece. H : 19.7’ x 59.4’ x 4.1’ inches.

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.

The jug is made of fine pottery with a cream colored glaze cover. The flared body shows elements in relief in the first elevation. Then a central band wit...

A stunning Canadian studio pottery vase decorated in light blue glazes with an associated pottery stand by Lane Gordon Thorlaksson (Canadian, 1...

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.

Important glazed stoneware sculpture entitled « Flétrie » by Anne Barrès. circa 2010. Unique piece. Can be displayed both indoors and outdoors. H : 32.7’ x 33.8’ x 28.7’ inches...

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.

Glazed stoneware wall sculpture entitled « Burka » by Anne Barrès. Artist signature on the back « Anne Barrès ». circa 2000-2010. Unique piece. Can be displayed both indoors and o...

La Borne Unique handmade piece, stoneware ceramic table lamp Brown stoneware ceramic color Original perfect condition Circa 1970 Measures: Height 23 cm Height with el...

Important glazed stoneware sculpture entitled « Flétrie »by Anne Barrès. Circa 2010. Unique piece. Can be displayed both indoors and outdoors. H : 17.7’ x 19.7’ x 19.7’ inches (c...

Important glazed stoneware sculpture entitled « Flétrie » by Anne Barrès. circa 2010. Unique piece. Can be displayed both indoors and outdoors. H : 33.5’ x 22.8’ x 22.8’ inches...

Stoneware and steel screen by Anne Barrès. circa 2000. Unique piece. Can be displayed both indoors and outdoors. H : 31.9’ x 32.3’ x 2.9’ inches (ceramic only). H : 37.40’ x 34.6...

Large glazed stoneware screen with four leaves by Anne Barrès. Artist signature under the base. Circa 2000-2010. Unique piece. Can be displayed both indoors or outdoors. H : 75.2...

Ceramics in the shape of a owl stamped Dominique Pouchain.

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...

Chinese Antique Ming Dynasty glazed pottery figure  Ming Dynasty circa (14-16 century AD) China, The earthenware with green and yellow glaze Meas...

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.

Robert Wallace Martin for the Martin Brothers. A salt-glazed stoneware sculpture of an infant bird. Decorated with a palate of greens, browns and blue with webbed feet and a coy ex...

Benoit Favre Unique handmade piece Brown stoneware ceramic pitcher Signed at the base Measures: Height 17 cm Large 12 cm.

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 ...

An exceptional English studio pottery vase decorated with stylized patterning by renowned British potter Bernard Howell Leach (British, 1887-197...

A fine vintage Winchcombe press-molded baking dish decorated with trailed slip designs attributable to Michael Cardew (British, 1901-1983) and probably ...

5361 William Moorcroft for Liberty & Co. An inverted Bowl decorated with a superb example of the Claremont design Circa 1908

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...

Traditional Spanish rustic ceramic trumpet. Manufactured in Spain by unknown manufacturer, circa 1960. In original condition, with minor wear consistent of age and use, preserv...

Théodore Deck (1823-1891), ceramic vase, signed, circa 1870.

Rare pair of folk art memory vases, antiques 1900-1910 Folk art vases from multiple inserted small tokens, mementos like porcelain doll heads. Good antique condition. Some missing pieces and also chips around the fringes. Very decorative pieces. Dimensions 5.5" x 10.23". Memory vases origin: As a cultural artifact of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, memory jugs possess an intersectional history as a form of domestic craft with ties to African and African-American burial practices. Traditionally created by the Bakongo people in Central and West Africa as grave markers...

A hand-built squat studio pottery vase of slight tapering rhombic form in brown glazes by Katerina Evangelidou (Greek, c.1960). The four sided vase has two erupting vertical seams at...

Beautiful ceramic plate from Valencia made in the early 18th century. The ceramic has been glazed with a glossy painted bird depiction. The bird depictions are very rare and hard to find. The ceramic is glazed in an enamel bath...

A fine quality pair of late 19th century Meissen porcelain Nodding Pagodas, each with wonderful bold coloring moving heads, tongues and hands....

Unique handmade indigo blue ceramic plate for wall or table decoration. Pastel blue, rose and yellow dots placed along white lines resembling flora...

We are delighted to offer for sale this rare and collectable pair of Mexican circa 1960’s hand painted terracotta larger planter pots A very good...

A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer. Perfect original conditions. Signed. Unique piece. 2007. 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”. Femininity and sensuality are exalted. Inspired by the body, before and after birth, or simply the sea, the parts of the sculpture conjugate around a mysterious interior cavity, secret and troubling. The interior wall doesn’t correspond to the exterior, and has its own volumes, deformities, and intimacy. The pieces present two kinds of interior: one open, and partially uncovered, the other totally hidden inside. The differences of their respective deformation reinforce the impression of life : the subjective representation of muscles and bones, of bulges pushed by an interior force, like a visceral movement of respiration. The surface of the ceramic is crackled but soft and fine, even reflecting light like the skin. The nuances of color reinforce the expression of sensuality. The alignment of technique and what it causes one to see and feel has rarely been so intimately successful. Wayne Fischer perfected his technique in the 1970s and has remained faithful to it. He adds fibers to porcelain clay that has been chosen for its whiteness to create and accentuate volume around empty space, by assembling slabs or thrown pieces. Then, he makes another piece that takes its place inside; both parts are formed with no hand...

The “Andy” ceramic collection VG presents a collection of classic sculptures which revisits the techniques of pop art. The original work is taken apart; a few details are then remove...

Monumental ceramic vase with glaze decoration. Unique piece. Signed and dated 2020 at the base. Perfect original conditions.

Mike Dodd (British, b.1943) Studio pottery vase with a faceted body and decorated in green trailed glazes dating from the 20th Century. The stoneware vase stands on an unglazed foot ...

The “Andy” ceramic collection VG presents a collection of Classic sculptures which revisits the techniques of pop art. The original work is taken apart; a few details are then remove...

La Borne - 19th century Large stoneware pottery from center of France Realised circa 1880 Original good condition its peculiarity is to have a piece of another pot fixed...

A very rare and stunning Arts & Crafts studio pottery vase of twisted floral shape made in London by Horace Elliott (British, 1851-1938) dating from the...

Ceramic in the shape of a unicorn by Dominique Pouchain.

Madonna ceramic sculpture, 1940s. Dimensions: H= 26 cm; W= 15 cm; D=10 cm.

La Borne Realised in 2007 Stoneware black or brown ceramic bottle or vase Original good condition Signed Measures: Height 21 cm Large 9 cm.

O/2956 - Old earthenware bowls and lids from Morocco: terracotta lids can be used to keep food warm in serving dishes. I'm closing my activities, so...

Ceramic Mask, Accolay, France, 1960s Accolay was a pottery center in France, north of Burgundy, founded amongst others, by 4 students of Alexandre Kostanda. Active between 1945 and ...

A big wall decoration ceramic plate by Roger Collet. Green and blue, white glazes decoration. Perfect original conditions. Signed under the base "Collet".

The “Andy” ceramic collection VG presents a collection of classic sculptures which revisits the techniques of pop art. The original work is taken apart; a few details are then remove...

David Louveau Original and unique handmade ceramic tea pot White stoneware ceramic color Wood firing ceramic effects Original perfect condition Measures: Height 13 cm ...

Ceramic statue in the shape of a bull. Stamped Dominique Pouchain.

Claude Gaget Large stoneware ceramic decorative box realised in La Borne original perfect condition Measures: Height 18 cm Large 17 cm.

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”. Femininity and sensuality are exalted. Inspired by the body, before and after birth, or simply the sea, the parts of the sculpture conjugate around a mysterious interior cavity, secret and troubling. The interior wall doesn’t correspond to the exterior, and has its own volumes, deformities, and intimacy. The pieces present two kinds of interior: one open, and partially uncovered, the other totally hidden inside. The differences of their respective deformation reinforce the impression of life : the subjective representation of muscles and bones, of bulges pushed by an interior force, like a visceral movement of respiration. The surface of the ceramic is crackled but soft and fine, even reflecting light like the skin. The nuances of color reinforce the expression of sensuality. The alignment of technique and what it causes one to see and feel has rarely been so intimately successful. Wayne Fischer perfected his technique in the 1970s and has remained faithful to it. He adds fibers to porcelain clay that has been chosen for its whiteness to create and accentuate volume around empty space, by assembling slabs or thrown pieces. Then, he makes another piece that takes its place inside; both parts are formed with no hand...

Claude Gaget Unique handmade piece Large stoneware ceramic box with bird decoration Brown stoneware ceramic glaze Original perfect condition ...

A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer. Perfect original conditions. Signed. Unique piece. 2022. How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrol...