USA - Ceramics

A charming faience lavabo and basin by Creil et Montereau, circa 1900, in unusual "faux bois" decoration. The piece retains its original lid and spout.

This stunning hand painted ceramic vase was realized by the esteemed Swedish ceramicist Arthur Percy for Gefle circa 1920. It features a subtly conical body with inset sloped shoulde...

Funky Italian Majolica rooster. With removable top-see pics.

Ceramic chargers with photo transfer by prolific California artist Erik Grönborg . Arriving in the United States from Denmark in 1959, Grönborg headed straight away to California whe...

Vintage Faux Shagreen (Stingray) Finish Pot with Brass Accents & Lid Light Grey Ceramic Interior with Matte Grey & Beige Tones Faux Shagreen Finish Fully removeable lid In overall...

A fine vintage Santa Claus character jug or decorative mug by the English pottery firm, Royal Doulton.

Found in France, this French confit jar dates from approximately 1915. This piece stands 11” high and has the traditional form with a wide vessel body and two handles on the sides wi...

Vintage Ceramic Wall Mounted Vase with Abstract Motif by Roger Capron - Vallauris, France Roger Capron was in influential French ceramicist, known f...

A decorative pottery goblet created by William Moorcroft for James MacIntyre & Co. in 1903. This goblet is part of William Moorcroft's Green and Gold...

A large Italian ceramic table lamp designed and made by Guido Gambone (1909-1969), an Italian ceramic artist based in Florence, circa 1950s. The stoneware lamp base is of a long-neck...

Vintage Sherle Wagner hand painted scalloped ceramic soap dish mums bouquet. Vitreous China. Hand painted and hand decorated item. Mums Bouquet pattern applied by hand, multiple firi...

Here we have 2 ceramic cups, in splatter pattern. Both signed as shown, with EXP mark. You can buy them both, or to pick big handle or small handle, at list $ 250.00 each, for the well known Los Angeles...

Vintage ceramic decorative flask signed by Roger Capron - Vallauris, France Roger Capron was in influential French ceramicist, known for his tiled tables and his use of recurring mo...

French mid-20th century small ceramic pot.

Baby Huey is a rare find in a cookie jar. He was a famous animated cartoon character. Do you remember him?

A large scale vase with a hare’s fur glaze in shades of blues and greens by Carl-Harry Stalhane for Rorstrand. Incised signature and studio mark to underside: [R Sweden CHS SDA].

Limoges white porcelain sea shell dish with hand painted lily-of-the-valley and butterfly design, c. mid 20th century, France. Signed Limoges France on ...

Mexican hand-painted Tonala Pottery 2-arm candelabra, signed. Offered for sale is a Mexican Tonala pottery two-arm candelabra depicting a wom...

jar, hand painted and glazed all-over stylized artistic foliate decoration featuring a bamboo shoot and foliage handle ,without lid . Except...

The engraved and brush painted ceramic plate, Visage Gris (Grey Face) is one the most iconic pieces created by Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) at the Madoura workshop in Vallauris, France. It is said "all portraits are self portraits". In this work, we see Picasso's wistfulness, vulnerability and humor set within a beautiful image representing both the sun and the moon, the masculine and the feminine. Picasso mastery of form, image, composition and subtle color is evident in a work that resonates transcendence. Created in 1953, Pablo Picasso ceramic Visage Gris (Grey Face), 1953 A.R. 206 is a Madoura white earthenware clay, knife engraved under partial brushed glaze with decoration in engobes (green, black, white) from the edition of 500. This work is stamped with the 'Madoura PLEIN FEU' and ‘EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO’ pottery stamps on the reverse. Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 5/8in (31.4 x 38.3 x 4.1cm). Madoura was an artisan workshop created by Georges and Suzanne Ramie which collaborated with Picasso in the fabrication and hand painting of the works. Pablo Picasso designed 633 different ceramic editions between 1947 and 1971 at the Madoura workshop, with a number of variants and unique pieces resulting from these initial works. He began by creating simple, utilitarian objects such as plates and bowls, but later produced more complex forms, including pitchers and vases — their handles occasionally shaped to form facial features, or anatomical parts of his animal subjects. Picasso remains one of the highest-grossing artists at auction today, and the range of his ceramics means it's possible to find both a good investment and a beautiful object. Visage Gris is among the most important. A Short Biography follows: Pablo Picasso revolutionized the art world and to many is THE artist of the 20th century. He is famous for his role in pioneering Cubism with Georges Braque and for his melancholy Blue Period pieces. Original signed Picasso lithographs and prints are a sure investment. Madoura Picasso ceramics are highly collectible in their own right. As one of the most influential Modern artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso is renowned as a legendary artistic master to this day. Born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain, Pablo Picasso was a child prodigy who was recognized as such by his art-teacher father, who ably led him along. The small Museo de Picasso in Barcelona is devoted primarily to his early works, which include strikingly realistic renderings of casts of ancient sculpture. Picasso was a rebel from the start and, as a teenager, began to frequent the Barcelona cafes where intellectuals gathered. He soon went to Paris, the capital of art, and soaked up the works of Edouard Manet, Gustave Courbet, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, whose sketchy style impressed him greatly. Then it was back to Spain, a return to France, and again back to Spain – all in the years 1899 to 1904. Before he struck upon Cubism, Picasso went through a prodigious number of styles – realism, caricature, the Blue Period, and the Rose Period. These distinguished styles are apparent in the unique original works as well as Picasso ceramics, lithographs, linocuts, and etchings that he created later in his life. The Blue Period dates from 1901 to 1904 and is characterized by a predominantly blue palette and focuses on outcasts, beggars, and prostitutes. This was when he also produced his first sculptures. The most poignant work of the style, La Vie (1903), currently located in Cleveland’s Museum of Art, was created in memory of his childhood friend, the Spanish poet Carlos Casagemas, who had committed suicide. The painting started as a self-portrait, but Picasso’s features became those of his lost friend. The composition is stilted, the space compressed, the gestures stiff, and the tones predominantly blue. The Rose Period began around 1904 when Picasso’s palette brightened and is dominated by pinks and beiges, light blues, and roses. His subjects are saltimbanques (circus people), harlequins, and clowns, all of whom seem to be mute and strangely inactive. One of the premier works of this period is Family of Saltimbanques (1905), currently in Washington, D.C. at the National Gallery, which portrays a group of circus workers who appear alienated and incapable of communicating with each other, set in a one-dimensional space. In 1905, Picasso went briefly to Holland, and on his return to Paris, his works took on a classical aura with large male and female figures seen frontally or in distinct profile, as in early Greek art. One of the best examples of this style is in the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, NY, La Toilette (1906). Several pieces in this new, classical style were purchased by Gertrude Stein (the art patron and writer) and her brother, Leo Stein. With his groundbreaking 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon...

A stunning pair of beige faux horn candlesticks, brass decorations and nickel plated tips, circa 1970. These stylishly design candlesticks would enhance any table, counter, console...

Blue Art Deco vase, made of ceramics. Atelier Primavera, Longwy. 
France, 1927. This vase was designed in 1919. “Les Grands Magasins du Printemps” is a fine Longwy Primavera Art Deco ceramic vase. Longwy made this French Art Deco vase for Atelier Primavera, the design studio of the Paris department store “Les Grands Magasins du Printemps”. This fine ceramic cloisonne quality represents some of the best made...

A fine set of 4 Japanese Imari porcelain bowls Each decorated throughout with kaikemon blue, red, and green natural scenes and extensive gilding. Marked to the base with a blue underglaze maker's mark for Kakufuku. Simply a fine set of Japanese rice bowls...

Ceramic bowl in three varying earth tone glazes that range from green to deep brown. The bowl features two higher rounded sides with a divot and an oval cutout on one of the sides. ...

A fabulous vintage Boho dog. A chic life size glazed ceramic finish in black. A great way to add a flash of glamour to any space. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.

This stunning and rare Italian vintage hallmarked Bitossi glazed ceramic vessel is iridescent and resembling luster ware. This is from the 60's. It ha...

Betty and Barnie Rubble cookie jar.

Vintage ceramic decorative flask signed by Roger Capron - Vallauris, France Roger Capron was in influential French ceramicist, known for his tiled tables and his use of recurring mo...

Beautiful ceramic bowl by Jerome Heck crafted in the Raku firing technique. This one of a kind piece stands on four legs and develops and opens upwards. The glaze has variations of greens that ondulate in shape around the bowl. Inside the bowl, different designs come forward (turtle figure...

This vintage Royal Copenhagen glazed ceramic bowl by the designer Nils Thorsson is a faience method which is the process of adding tin oxide to glaze the earthenware. It is from the ...

Alvino Bagni for Bitossi designed this pair of outstanding rare vintage black Italian ceramics in the 60's for Good Friends which was an American importer and often commissioned Bito...

A large ceramic vessel by Claude Conover (American 1907-1994) titled "Chuc". Signed on underside.

Vintage Ceramic Plate with Sea Star by Roger Capron - Vallauris, France Roger Capron was in influential French ceramicist, known for his tiled ...

A stunning Mid-Century period faience bowl, made in France by the Emaux de Longwy art pottery workshop. Made and signed by the ceramic artist Lea Valenti. The decoration consists o...

A large ceramic lusterware bowl by American artist and studio potter Beatrice Wood (1893-1998). The piece, circa 1980s, is of an upright deep form typical of a rice bowl, supported b...

Vintage ceramic Mirabelle flask by Roger Capron - Vallauris, France Roger Capron was in influential French ceramicist, known for his tiled tables and his use of recurring motifs suc...

Auguste Mouzin et Cie, Belgium, designed and manufactured this lovely Art Deco bedroom or dresser ceramic set. The set comprised four ceramic pieces: a pitcher, a large basin bowl, a...

Jacques Blin French ceramic artist white ceramic vase, pitcher or sculpture reminiscent of a bird. Similar ceramic piece pictured on p 32 of Jacques Blin, Cerami...

An earthenware coffee service made in the USA by Franciscan, in their ‘Madeira’ pattern, produced between 1967 and 1983. A mid century tan floral motif scrolls across the body of the...

Two American Studio Art Pottery ceramic vases, one with bulbous body, tapering neck, flared rim, and blue and cream drip glazes over purple, stamped "STEIN" signature to underside, a...

Pair of late Staffordshire Recumbent figures Dalmatians USA, 20th 1950s A good pair of a later Staffordshire hand painted and enameled porcelain figures of reclining Dalmatians....

Famous Dino from the Flintstones, in form of a cookie jar.

A extraordinary vintage glazed ceramic parrot on a brass pedestal. Made by the iconic Oggetti group in Italy. Unmarked. Brilliant hand painted colors. Acquired from a Palm Beach esta...

A Japanese transferware china serving platter by Noritake in the Olympia pattern. At the center is colorful floral spray, with a vine leaf border...

A Mid-Century Modern ceramic serving dish circa 1960, drip glazed in vibrant green hues and shaped like two adjacent leaves. Signed underneath “Santa Anita...

Set of Three German Vintage Textured Porcelain Vases Tall White - Royal Porzeilan - Bavaria Germany - ( 3.5" x 12") Short White - Bareuther Waldsass...

The Perignem and Amphora workshops, both near Bruge, Belgium, were the center of modern Flemish ceramics in the 50s and 60s. Perignem was founded in 1947 by ceramic artists Rogier an...

Circa 1900 Japanese hand painted Imari charger. The charger is hand painted in an array of spectacular colors and has a central lozenge with a potted pla...

Fabulous abstract depiction of a Japanese Samurai in ceramic tile, 12 pcs framed and matted. Beautiful tiles, in absolute stunning colors with exquisite lines. In excellent vintage c...

A vintage circa 1970s midcentury Danish modern faience ceramic box by Berte Jessen for Royal Copenhagen. This lidded circular box is fully marked and has a beautiful and colorful des...

A modern earthenware English butter dish made by Denby, a traditional English pottery company in the village of Denby, Derbyshire. A traditional re...

This is one of the most simple and elegant sculptures made for the very well known artist, ceramist Rupert Deese, has amazing blue tones in the glaze, marked with cypher 's artist mark.

During the 18th century, Europeans provided an eager market for Chinese export porcelain, especially the colorful and fanciful ware known as “famille rose.” Named for a palette of op...

A set of six dinner plates featuring the Wild Turkey - His Majesty brown and white transfer-ware pattern by the celebrated English pottery firm, Johnson Brothers. With authentic m...

An Asian Chinoiserie style table vase, unbranded. Hand painted porcelain with a Chinoiserie design of foliate, floral & geometric shapes in shades of white, red & salmon colors with gold trim, and a tapered square urn...

Little Audrey is one of the rarest cookies jars.

Early 20th century 3-liter German stoneware stein with cast pewter cover, the thumb rest with bearded bust. The musical motif is attractively glazed to...

Vintage Ceramic Wall Mounted Vase with Cobblestones by Roger Capron - Vallauris, France Roger Capron was in influential French ceramicist, known for...