London - Vases and Vessels

A remarkable early 19th C. Black Catalan terracotta cosi pot from the village of quart, Catalonia. Incredibly rare XXL size. Heavily patinated with age old repairs. Originally used for the storage of wine &/or olive oil. This Cosi pot (along with the other pair listed) have fantastic provenance… having been acquired from the wine cellar of the world famous “El Bulli...

'Vetrograph Myrtle' is a unique artwork by the Australian artist, Anne Clifton. In the artist's own words: "Vetrograph play at the intersection of an intuitive drawing process and...

France Circa 1900 An early twentieth century faience pottery jug in the form of an owl with a naturalistic base leading into a handle. Height 22cm Diameter of base 10cm

A pair of Meissen style 'Schneeballers' vase, applied with branches and birds abpve pierced vases. Covers surmounted with bouquets of flowers and birds.

This decorative garniture takes the form of a vessel yet distinguishes itself by not being hollow, embodying a refined balance between form and function. Entirely hand-crafted using ...

A wonderful collection of three ceramic storage jars designed by Piero Fornasetti, circa 1960. These highly decorative pieces feature hand-coloure...

A collection of Czechoslovakian glasses by the designers Oldrich Lipsky and Pavel Hlava and others for Exbor, some signed. Czechoslovakia, circ...

Two Chinese style enameled gilt and patinated bronze urns French, circa 1880 Measures: Height 44.5cm, width 27cm, depth 20cm Each urn, or va...

A Glasgow Style Arts and Crafts oak and copper bound planter with splayed legs and circular cut-out's to the tops.

Triple plant stand in yellow and black metal expanded. Manufactured by "Les Ateliers Matégot". Documented

Mid-century Swedish glass vase with blue and green decoration. Circa 1960. H 11cm x W 15cm x D 15cm

Studio Pottery vase Glazed British.

Pair of antique Japanese cloisonné enamel vases with French ormolu mounts Japanese and French, Late 19th Century Height 30.5cm, width 22cm, depth 17cm Virtually identical in design,...

These truly exceptional and rare antique Louis XVI period vases have been sculpted from agate, a precious and highly sought-after stone. The vases are set on square agate bases with gilt bronze laurel wreath socles. The burgundy and claret agate bodies of the vases are mounted with gilt bronze acanthus leaf ornamentation, and twin lion masks joined by draped swags above. The lids of the vases are mounted with gilt bronze, surmounted by pine cone finials. The vases' design is attributed to the late 18th century, French clockmaker Martin Baffert. Baffert worked with a number of Parisian bronziers including Jean-Nicholas Fremont, Nicolas-Guillaume Jourdan and Francois-Robert Leguel, who assisted in the creation of his designs. This pair of vases is very similar to another pair of vases which Baffert designed, which form part of a clock garniture currently in the Rothschild collection at Waddesdon Manor. The Rothschild vases...

A highly unusual stitched bark vessel from the Romanian side of the Carpathian mountains. originally used for the storage of wheat. A rare piece that would be perfect as a planter ...

A large collection of English emerald glazed cache pot by Bretby and others. All in good condition apart from two small chips. Measure: 43cm high x 33cm diameter (largest) 10cm high...

Talwin Morris style of, an Arts & Crafts Glasgow School cylindrical copper vase with wonderful oblong enamels to each side and stylised elongated tree de...

A large op art "Tetris" bisque matt-white porcelain vase which was manufactured by Heinrich Ceramics in Germany during the 1970s. A stunning brutalist 3...

Made in Paris circa 1830 by Odiot, this spectacular 1st quality, French Antique, silver centrepiece jardinière and plateau, has an oval bowl beautifully detailed with fluting, floral...

An impressive early 20th Century American iridescent glass vase of slender form with green hearts shining through an attractive golden iridescence, signed L C Tiffany Favrile and numbered to base. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 23 cm Condition: Very Good Condition Circa: 1905 Materials: Iridescent Coloured Glass SKU: 6667 ABOUT Louis Comfort Tiffany Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. Tiffany was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewellery, enamels and metalwork. Early Life He was born in New York City, New York, the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany and Company; and Harriet Olivia Avery Young. He attended school at Pennsylvania Military Academy in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. His first artistic training was as a painter, studying under George Inness in Eagleswood, New Jersey and Samuel Colman in Irvington, New York. He also studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1866-67 and with salon painter Leon-Adolphe-Auguste Belly in 1868-69. Belly’s landscape paintings had a great influence on Tiffany. Career Louis started out as a painter, but became interested in glassmaking from about 1875 and worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn between then and 1878. In 1879, he joined with Candace Wheeler, Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists. The business was short-lived, lasting only four years. The group made designs for wallpaper, furniture, and textiles. He later opened his own glass factory in Corona, New York, determined to provide designs that improved the quality of contemporary glass. Tiffany’s leadership and talent, as well as his father’s money and connections, led this business to thrive. In 1881 Tiffany did the interior design of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, which still remains, but the new firm’s most notable work came in 1882 when President Chester Alan Arthur refused to move into the White House until it had been redecorated. He commissioned Tiffany, who had begun to make a name for himself in New York society for the firm’s interior design work, to redo the state rooms, which Arthur found charmless. He worked on the East Room, the Blue Room, the Red Room, the State Dining Room and the Entrance Hall, refurnishing, repainting in decorative patterns, installing newly designed mantelpieces, changing to wallpaper with dense patterns and, of course, adding Tiffany glass to gaslight fixtures, windows and adding an opalescent floor-to-ceiling glass screen in the Entrance Hall. The Tiffany screen and other Victorian additions were all removed in the Roosevelt renovations of 1902, which restored the White House interiors to Federal style in keeping with its architecture. A desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885 when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm that same year. The first Tiffany Glass Company was incorporated December 1, 1885 and in 1902 became known as the Tiffany Studios. In the beginning of his career, he used cheap jelly jars and bottles because they had the mineral impurities that finer glass lacked. When he was unable to convince fine glassmakers to leave the impurities in, he began making his own glass. Tiffany used opalescent glass in a variety of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass. He developed the “copper foil” technique, which, by edging each piece of cut glass in copper foil and soldering the whole together to create his windows and lamps, made possible a level of detail previously unknown. This can be contrasted with the method of painting in enamels or glass paint on colorless glass, and then setting the glass pieces in lead channels, that had been the dominant method of creating stained glass for hundreds of years in Europe. (The First Presbyterian Church building of 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is unique in that it uses Tiffany windows that partially make use of painted glass.) Use of the colored glass itself to create stained glass pictures was motivated by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and its leader William Morris in England. Fellow artists and glassmakers Oliver Kimberly and Frank Duffner, founders of the Duffner and Kimberly Company and John La Farge were Tiffany’s chief competitors in this new American style of stained glass. Tiffany, Duffner and Kimberly, along with La Farge, had learned their craft at the same glasshouses in Brooklyn in the late 1870s. In 1889 at the Paris Exposition, he is said to have been “Overwhelmed” by the glass work of Émile Gallé, French Art Nouveau artisan. He also met artist Alphonse Mucha. In 1893, Tiffany built a new factory called the Stourbridge Glass Company, later called Tiffany Glass Furnaces, which was located in Corona, Queens, New York, hiring the Englishman Arthur J. Nash to oversee it. In 1893, his company also introduced the term Favrilein conjunction with his first production of blown glass at his new glass factory. Some early examples of his lamps were exhibited in the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. At the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, he won a gold medal with his stained glass windows The Four Seasons He trademarked Favrile (from the old French word for handmade) on November 13, 1894. He later used this word to apply to all of his glass, enamel and pottery. His first commercially produced lamps date from around 1895. Much of his company’s production was in making stained glass windows and Tiffany lamps, but his company designed a complete range of interior decorations. At its peak, his factory employed more than 300 artisans. Recent scholarship led by Rutgers professor Martin Eidelberg suggests that a team of talented single women designers – sometimes referred to as the “Tiffany Girls” – led by Clara Driscoll played a big role in designing many of the floral patterns on the famous Tiffany...

‘Blue Skies' is a unique glass sculptural vessel by the British artist, Sarah Wiberley. Handblown from layers of colour, the precise patterns shown are created by masking and sandbla...

A stunning vibrant cameo glass vase etched and enamelled with brightly colored trees in the foreground against a hilly background and deep sky blue horizon, exhibiting excellent colo...

Pair of vintage 1960s Scandinavian purple glass vases which I am selling together because of their interlocking design. The vase with the bulbous middle has a tiny chip on the insid...

The pieces follow the Narcissus vases in Rosa Perlino and Rosso Levanto shown at David Gill Gallery in November 2017 and are made from these two traditional...

A rounded, medium-sized vase made and designed in Denmark by K H Würtz. The glaze of this unique art piece from the small Danish workshop, artfully accentuates the lightly tapered ...

A fine pair of Bohemian clear cut glass vases, Each with a flaring domed lid surmounted by a octagonal finial, scenes of wildlife through a landscape, R...

Globe Pottery. Tunis design. A large Aesthetic Movement blue and white jug.

This beautiful vase was created by the world-famous Meissen porcelain factory. Meissen was established in the early 18th century, making it the first producer of hard-paste porcelain...

Rich red Bullicante ball perfume bottle cased in clear Murano glass with clear glass collar and ball stopper. Made famous in the 1930s by Archimede Seguso, the Bullicante controlled...

Tactile and curvaceous hand driven brass vessel or container or trinket box with lid signed Franz J. Peters Stolberg RH, Peters, 1913-1977. In this handcrafted container the traces o...

‘Tangerine Arrows' is a unique glass sculptural vessel by the British artist, Sarah Wiberley. Handblown from layers of colour, the precise patterns shown are created by masking and s...

Slashed Crumpled Form No 60 is a unique ceramic sculptural vessel by the British artist Nicholas Arroyave-Portela, made from white St.Thomas ...

A beautiful large pair of Japanese Satsuma baluster vases by Taizan, Meiji era, (1868-1912) converted to lamps, dating from the second half of the  19th century. Each vase thickly p...

‘Tall Jade Green Crumpled Form No 89’ is a unique sculptural vessel by the British artist, Nicholas Arroyave-Portela. Nicholas Arroyave-Portela’s professional ceramic practice began...

The Helen JA Miles Wedgwood tiled planter from the Midsummer Night's Dream series, c. 1880, showcases the exquisite artistry and craftsmanship associated...

Monumental vases by the early modernist Italian designer Egidio Casagrande (1911-1962). Hand hammered copper vases or amphoras have a round twisted body and tapered neck. Each have ...

'Sugar Snow' is a unique glass sculptural vessel by the Swedish artist, Gunnel Sahlin. Sahlin’s current passions include exploring the limits of glass materiality, colour, form and ...

A magnificent early 20th Century Art Nouveau cameo glass vase etched and enamelled with flowering Datura in a vibrant landscape. The design heightened with gilded design on the surfa...

This is a spectacular garniture of three vases made by an English factory between 1810 and 1815. The vases are made in the French Empire style with heavily gilded Egyptian caryatid s...

'Letting Go No 141’ is a unique sculptural vessel by the British artist, Nicholas Arroyave-Portela. Nicholas Arroyave-Portela’s professional ceramic practice began in 1994. After 20...

Original Tamegroute eathernware pitcher with vivid iconic deep green glaze specific to this small town on the edge of the Sahara. This version showing the qualities of earlier pieces...

Hand-blown antique American glass perfume bottle overlaid with open-work silver banding and engraved floral decorations. In 1889, the decorative technique of applying sterling silve...

These beautiful Japanese vases were crafted during the Meiji period of the late 19th Century, which was referred to as the Golden Age of cloisonne enameling. The vases are of elo...

Studio glass vase C. 1960. In very good vintage condition.

No 31. Contemporary handmade blue green mottled rustic ceramic glazed vase with a molten drip design around the rim and interior. Designed and made by Brazilian ceramicist Flavio Di...

1960s vintage Italian handblown white opalescent milky-white glass bottle vase in an ovoid form. An elegant vase, with a simple yet sophisticated de...

A very fine a superb scale Japanese Cloisonné vase, the light blue ground with flowers and floral details. In perfect condition.

Margaret Gilmour attributed in the style of Talwin Morris. An Arts & Crafts Glasgow school brass planter with embossed kissing love birds.   

Thomas Jeckyll for Barnard Bishop and Barnard. An Anglo-Japanese brass planter originally designed to compliment Jeckyll's timeless fireplaces ...

Fine American sterling silver lobed baluster vase made by Tiffany & Co at the turn of the 20th century. With its compressed and bulbous fluted form, and reflecting Tiffany's efforts ...

Presenting a magnificent pair of French Maurin green marble urns and covers exuding opulence and grandeur in the Louis XVI style, dating from the late 19th to early 20th century. Ea...

A fine and important gilt ground porcelain vase by the Gardner Factory Russian, c. 1830 Height 43cm, width 21cm, depth 15cm This fine antique v...

Hallmarked in Birmingham in 1904 by William Devenport, this attractive, Antique, Edwardian, Sterling Silver Scent Bottle, features a hobnail cut round glass body, and an ornate silve...

Acanthus Veronese in blue, is a unique art glass jar by British glass artist James Lethbridge. Blown glass with the outer layer covered in flame worked deco...

A pair of elegant milky pink/white candlesticks with an almost red contrasting centre Produced in Murano in the 1960s by Barovier & Toso. Original label present. (See images).

Set of five black Rosenthal porcelain vases marked Studio-line designed. Four are by Helmut Dresler (1927-2016), hand painted three in sliver geometric chequer design and one a V motif. One is by Elisa Fisher-Treyden (1901-1995). They all have a black gloss and mat surface and have an oval opening and a rectangular form. Helmut Dresler's works are in the State Museum for Porcelain in Selb-Plößberg...

‘Bright Field Olive Brown’ is a unique sculptural glass vase by the German artist, Sabine Lintzen. The initial inner form is free-blown and adorned with various individually shaped ...

'Gyratory II' is a unique ceramic sculptural vessel by the British artist, Jo Taylor. In the artist's own words: "Gyratory means moving in a circle or spiral, which relates to the ...