United Kingdom Vases

Giant Advertising Presentation Glass Chalice for Bells Scotch Whisky This is an oversized Glass, made for Pub or Bar display advertising. The glas...

MID CENTURY CERAMIC VASE Made from glazed earthenware in the form of a stylised female figure with handpainted decoration. By renowned French potter Gustave Reynaud (1915-1972) who...

Heavy hand made striped art glass handkerchief vase, in a beautiful green on green colourway. The vase has a lovely folded organic shape. It is in very good condition. Measuring diam...

Pair of Art Nouveau WMF twin handled vases, featuring maidens wearing flowing dresses. The bottom of the dress forms the base. A flowering tree flows up from the base. Complete with ...

Striking black and yellow Tigris cat vase designed by Anneleise Beckh for West German company Schmider Keramik Inscrutable expression on this strong design pi...

Vintage Studio Ceramics Bottle Vase - Natural Burnt Glaze. England has a rich history of studio ceramics, often small studios for teaching or a shared space for talented ceramicist...

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...

Ceramic decorative vase by Alexandre Kostanda, Vallauris, France (circa 1960s). In his trademark natural clay and rustic style, Kostanda created beautifully original vessels, such as...

A stylish Arts & Crafts Bernard Moore high-fired luster solifleur vase with a rounded body on a narrow rounded foot with narrow neck and everted rim. Th...

Galle cameo glass Hydrangea vase C1905. Unusual shaped pedestal vase decorated with stylised hydrangeas.The vase is built up with five layers of glass a...

Pair Of Quality Antique Royal Doulton Vases with lovely hand painted blue and green decoration to the top and bottom of the vase and gold, red and white hand painted decoration to th...

This is a large impressive Art Pottery Vase, with three angular handles, all hand modelled using the Sgraffito method, with Fish decoration, hand made by W L BARON of Barnstaple...

An exceptional, fine and impressive pair of vintage Irish sterling silver vases / beakers made by William Egan & Sons; an addition to our ornamental silverware collection. These exceptional vintage Irish sterling silver vases/beakers have a tapering cylindrical form with a subtly flared rim. The surface of each piece is plain and unembellished. Each vase is supported by a plain domed spreading foot. These impressive vintage silver vases...

A delightful and scare antique English porcelain vase modelled as a cat looking into a cream or milk churn made by renowned makers Copeland and dating from the 19th century. The vase...

A large heavily textured volcanic vase with black, white and brown glaze and markings. Wide necked vessel with a bellied form. Made from black textured s...

Set of two blue vases by Floris Meydam and Siem van de Marel is the designer at Leerdam glass works, The Netherlands. Tall art vase with over flowing c...

A large 1970s mottled red and grey ceramic glazed vase. The bulbous body of an intense mottled red with a wonderful shimmering glaze narrows towards the neck where the colour turns...

Tiny sprigs of flora adorn this diminutive piece from the Argenta series by Wilhelm Kage for Gustavsberg, Sweden Wonderful mottled glaze decorated with applied silver decoration Circ...

A vintage French ceramic vase by Vallauris, handcrafted around the 1960s in the famed French village. This sculptural pottery piece, in the form of a vase, features smooth, sweeping...

Mid Century Heavy Glass Small Bud Vase. Well formed Swedish art glass heavy organic bud vase. Signed but unrecognised. This is in excellent condition, no chips, cracks or faults. ...

Midcentury Murano zanfirico filigrana glass vase with Appliqué cane. Attributed to Fulvio Bianconi circa 1950s. Pink, white and gold latticino and a...

Boldly shaped, Jean Gerbino for Vallauris, France, ceramic glazed neriage baluster vase of earth tones A remarkable piece of craft from Gerbino. Fabulous shape. Circa 1960's Signed G...

An exceptional quality Art Nouveau miniature iridescent glass vase, possibly Loetz and dating from the early 20th century. This heavily made amethyst glass vase is exquisitely decora...

A Very Decorative Blue and White Chinese Porcelain Vase This Vase Stands at a impressive 4ft in height Being Blue and White goes with Most Colour Decor

Pair of Large Delft Garlic Bulb Vase. Blue and White Decoration Late 19th Century Excellent Condition Desvres, France Circa 1890.

Most impressive clear, frosted and opalescent glass vase decorated with raised figures of birds on branches. A fabulous Art Deco design the surface of the vase has been finished by h...

Very Rare Moriage Netting From our Japanese collection, we are thrilled to introduce this fine Japanese Moriage Cloisonne Enamel Vase. The Cloisonne Enamel Vase of baluster form wi...

A stylish Dutch hand painted art pottery vase decorated with stylized floral designs by Gouda Schoonhoven and dating from around 1920. The well potted bottled shaped vase is of small...

A pair of large hand painted blue and white Chinese vases with covers. Of bulbous hexagonal form, each depicting dragons and the covers with dog of foo finials.

This is a very decorative small cloisonné vase, made in China and dating to the second half of the 19th Century, Qing period. The vase has a g...

Vintage French ceramic flower vase by Le Mûrier (circa 1960s). A charming cylindrical vase in the unmistakable Le Mûrier Provençal style with their trademark stylised mulberry flower...

A very stylish Art Nouveau Belgian twin handled art pottery vase decorated in flambe glazes and dating from around 1900. The lightly potted earthenware vase stands on a round partial...

A stylish Doulton Lambeth art deco twin handled paneled vase by renowned artist William Rowe and dating from around 1918. The stoneware vase is of tall bu...

Elegant cut crystal vase in Grant pattern standing 25cm in height and is signed in etching on the bottom and also having the Sea horse motif on the side label. The Grant pattern is o...

A stylish Austrian Art Nouveau twin handled art pottery vase hand painted with floral designs and made at Old Moravian Pottery around 1906. The squat ...

Very large pair of antique Viennese silver-gilt and enamel vases attributed to Böhm Austrian, c. 1880 Height 103cm, width 38cm, depth 32cm This exceptional pair of vases, attributed...

This is a 3' tall vintage stem vase. A French, blown glass fluted flower sleeve, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1960. Striking height to this example,standing at over 3 feet...

This is an antique decorative vase. A French, ceramic flower urn in Art Nouveau taste, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Appealing colors...

A very stylish German Bauhaus studio ceramic vase decorated in black and brown glazes by Heiner Hans Körting (1911-1991) and dating from 1940-50. T...

Rene Lalique Opalescent glass 'raisins' vase, with blue stained details. This pattern features deep relief grape bunches, hanging from vines. ...

Large antique porcelain and ormolu vase painted with a genre scene French, Late 19th Century Height 158cm, width 65cm, depth 46cm This remarkable antique vase, inspired by the icon...

Mid Century Elegant Cylinder Bubble Vase - Blue Lip. Well formed tall cylinder vase with delicate glass blue lip and fine air bubble detail. This is in excellent condition, no chip...

Cizhou stoneware vessel, dating to the Ming dynasty, 17th century. Traditional urn-shaped stoneware, decorated with dark brown brushwork on a ligh...

A striking early 20th Century Art Deco French glass plate, the frosted surface with geometric engraved pattern and raised scallop shells exhibiting fine deep sky blue opalescent colo...

Set of flower holders, handmade brass cylinder-shaped made of different sizes in diameter and heights. Handmade brass cylinder-shaped made of different s...

A stylish Doulton Lambeth Art Pottery vase decorated with fish by highly renowned artist Maud Bowden and dating from the early 20th century. The stoneware ...

Rene Lalique mint coloured and opalescent glass 'Le Mans' vase. This pattern features crowing cockerels/roosters around the sides. Stenciled makers mark, 'R LALIQUE FRANCE' to the un...

Distinct and stylish fused glass Italian vase, inspired by the master of Modern Art, Pablo Picasso An impressive piece mounted on an oblong black ...

Vintage ceramic vase (or pencil holder if you prefer) by Raymonde Leduc (circa 1970s). Sandstone coloured small vessel with plant motifs inlaid on all four sides. In good overall con...

This is a vintage pheasant vase. A Chinese, lacquer ceramic baluster urn, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1980. Superb baluster vase with a strik...

From a private collection from a prestigious London residence we are pleased to offer this exceptional Regency Anglo-Irish cut glass pedestal vase or bonbonnieres and cover dating fr...

Minton Majolica flower holder which features a scallop shell supported by seaweed on a rocky base. Coloration: cream, brown, green, are predomin...

Pair of Late 19th Century Cloisonne Vase. Profusely decorated with lotus flowers, pomegranates and butterflies. Bronze mounts. Japan Circa 1890

Italian glass 'Scavo' vase by Alfredo Barbini, Murano (circa 1970s). Scavo glass indicates that the glass went through a specific glass finishing technique. A special corrosive chemi...

Fine quality pair of antique Victorian vases having a fine quality pair of antique Victorian vases decorated with figures to the front upon a g...

This is a very rare and large Covered Vase by Mason's Ironstone pottery, England, dating to the Late Georgian Regency period , circa 1825. This piece is very well potted with a vertically fluted body sat on a low foot with two substantial handles either side. The domed lid has six small air holes in it and a large knob...

Acanthus I is a unique handmade porcelain vase with leaf decoration by the British artist Amy Hughes. Originally from West Yorkshire, Amy Hughes lives an...

Large pair of floral Chinese cloisonné enamel vases on wooden plinths Chinese, 20th Century Height 123cm, diameter 52cm This impressive pair of Chinese cloisonné enamel vases are de...

A very rare organic ribbed Louis Comfort Tiffany blue Favrile miniature vase in the Jugendstil style. Beautifully signed 'L. C. Tiffany Inc Favrile' Then (indistinctly) '7168 U' and ...

Striking Art Deco sgraffito ceramic vase by Josef Ekberg for Gustavsberg. Layers consist of pale blue ground and mid blue palm leaf decoration Signed Ekberg and dated 1911 Height 8 inch, Width 5.5 inch A unique example of Ekberg's craftsmanship In especially good condition. Area of the lightest of crazing, typical of Ekberg sgraffito...