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Handmade Clay Vase in Green-Brown with Red Roses by Rosie Fridrin Rieger 1918
Located in München, DE
Very beautiful handmade glazed clay vase in green-brown and with red roses. Under the vase there
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1910s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

18th Century Spanish Red Clay Jar
Located in Vulpellac, Girona
Old "tinaja" from Toledo, Spain with drain. A "tinaja" is an oval terracotta jar with a narrow mouth and foot, usually without handles. The large jar, also called tinajón, deeper...
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Mid-18th Century Spanish Other Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Terracotta

Ancient Roman Polished Terracotta Clay Oil Jars Art Pottery
Located in Las Vegas, NV
but these look to be ancient(B.C.)clay pieces. Perfect as interior decor, they have a wonderful
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15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Antique Clay Vessel

19th Century Spanish Black Clay Tonel or Water Jug, Signed
Located in Birmingham, AL
used to carry the water from the source to the house or the fields. Today, this antique clay vessel can
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1890s Spanish Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay, Pottery

18th Century Red Clay Spanish Jar, Tinaja-
Located in Vulpellac, Girona
Old tinaja of Calanda (Teruel), Spain. Made of red clay with handcrafted circular figures and
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Mid-18th Century Spanish Other Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Terracotta

19th Century Terracotta Red Clay Chinese Dragon Vase with Stand
Located in San Diego, CA
19th century terracotta red clay Chinese dragon vase with stand, circa 1880s. The vase has a
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Terracotta

19th Century Folk Art Red Clay or Pottery Grape Vine Vase/ Signed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This folky signed red clay or red ware pottery grape vine vase. This tall handmade pottery vase is
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Late 19th Century American Country Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Pottery

Chinese Unglazed Stamped Clay Cloud Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
Over a century ago, a gifted potter in northern China crafted this organic clay jar from the rich
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Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Ceramic

Early Svend Hammershøi for Kähler, Denmark, Art Noveau Vase in Glazed Red Clay
Located in København, Copenhagen
Early Svend Hammershøi for Kähler, Denmark, Art Noveau vase in glazed red clay with branches and
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1910s Danish Art Nouveau Antique Clay Vessel

Antique Confit Pot from Southwest France
Located in Dallas, TX
Part of our huge collection of large, colorful clay vessels, known as confit pots. Derived from the
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Early 20th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Earthenware

Antique Confit Pot from Southwest France
Located in Dallas, TX
Part of our huge collection of large, colorful clay vessels, known as confit pots. Derived from the
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Early 20th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Earthenware

Antique Confit Pot from Southwest France
Located in Dallas, TX
Part of our huge collection of large, colorful clay vessels, known as confit pots. Derived from the
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Early 20th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Earthenware

Pair of Art Deco Ceramic Royal Bonn Vases in Red Clay, Emerald Oceanic Hues
By Royal Bonn
Located in New York, NY
stylized floral renderings and spade motifs in hues of lilac, red clay, oceanic blue, emerald, and midnight
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1920s German Art Deco Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Ceramic

Antique Confit Pot from Southwest France
Located in Dallas, TX
Part of our huge collection of large, colorful clay vessels, known as confit pots. Derived from the
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Early 20th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Earthenware

Antique Confit Pot from Southwest France
Located in Dallas, TX
Part of our huge collection of large, colorful clay vessels, known as confit pots. Derived from the
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Early 20th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Earthenware

Antique Confit Pot from Southwest France
Located in Dallas, TX
Part of our huge collection of large, colorful clay vessels, known as confit pots. Derived from the
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Early 20th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Earthenware

Early 20th Century Chinese Stamped Clay Pickling Pot
Located in Chicago, IL
potter layered and staggered impressions to enliven the simply shaped vessel with visual rhythm and all
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Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Terracotta

Large 19th Century Mustard Yellow French Confit Pot
Located in Dallas, TX
This large, colorful clay vessel is a French confit pot from the 1800’s. Originally, these pots
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19th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Pottery

Antique Confit Pot from Southwest France
Located in Dallas, TX
Part of our huge collection of large, colorful clay vessels, known as confit pots. Derived from the
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Early 20th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Earthenware

19th Century Mustard Yellow French Confit Pot
Located in Dallas, TX
This large, colorful clay vessel is a French confit pot from the 1800’s. Originally, these pots
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19th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Pottery

Large 19th Century Mustard Yellow French Confit Pot
Located in Dallas, TX
This large, colorful clay vessel is a French confit pot from the 1800’s. Originally, these pots
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19th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Pottery

Antique Confit Pot from Southwest France
Located in Dallas, TX
Part of our huge collection of large, colorful clay vessels, known as confit pots. Derived from the
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Early 20th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Earthenware

Antique Confit Pot from Southwest France
Located in Dallas, TX
Part of our huge collection of large, colorful clay vessels, known as confit pots. Derived from the
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Early 20th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Earthenware

Antique Confit Pot from Southwest France
Located in Dallas, TX
Part of our huge collection of large, colorful clay vessels, known as confit pots. Derived from the
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Early 20th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Earthenware

Vintage Clay Amphora Vessel Floor Vase Greek Earthenware Pottery
Located in Dayton, OH
Clay Amphora Vessel floor vase Greek Earthenware Pottery 35" Large vessel or amphora (amphorae
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Early 20th Century Classical Greek Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Earthenware

Collection of Han Dynasty Pottery
Located in Wainscott, NY
Gorgeous five piece collection of ancient Chinese pottery vessels from the Han Dynasty period.
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18th Century and Earlier Chinese Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

Japanese Antique Crucible 1900s-1920s / Flower Vase Wabi Sabi
By Axel Vervoordt
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
particular piece carries the presence and intensity of a vessel that has endured fierce heat over and over
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Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

French Aptware Vase
By Apt
Located in Bradenton, FL
Stunning Aptware vase is hand shaped in marble clay swirls following the traditional method of
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19th Century French French Provincial Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay, Pottery

Circa 1880 Hand Painted Gros Relief French Barbotine Vase by Edouard Gilles
By Edouard Gilles
Located in Dallas, TX
The French equivalent of majolica, barbotine is a type of ceramic made from kaolin clay. Often used
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1880s French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Ceramic, Clay

19th Century Grand Tour Style Greek Dinos Pottery
Located in Nashville, TN
Wonderful large 19th century Grand Tour lidded Dinos on stand. Red Figure clay pottery.  
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1890s Unknown Grand Tour Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

19th Century French Barbotine Cylinder Vase with Gros Relief Flowers
Located in Dallas, TX
display of paper thin flowers made from kaolin clay. These gros relief flowers are quite delicate and
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19th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Ceramic, Clay

Antique Spanish Tinaja Pots and Stand
Located in SAINTE-COLOMBE, FR
Antique Spanish Tinaja pots and stand. A provincial Tinaja clay pot stand supporting three
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Early 1900s Spanish Rustic Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay, Pine

Antique Clay Amphora Vessel Floor Vase Primitive Greek Earthenware Pottery
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique clay Amphora vessel floor vase primitive Greek earthenware pottery 34" Large antique
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Early 20th Century Primitive Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Earthenware

19th C Brown Glazed Earthenware Pot
Located in Southampton, NY
19th C Brown Glazed Earthenware Pot A dark reddish earthenware pot with four delicate small decorative handles. A lovely dark toned glazed applied to three quarters of the pot. Age ...
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19th Century Unknown Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

17th Century Spanish Handmade Terracotta Ornamented Baptismal Font
Located in Marbella, ES
17th century Spanish handmade terracotta ornamented baptismal font.
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17th Century Spanish Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

19TH C. POTTERY VASE
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19TH C. POTTERY VASE
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19th Century American Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

Green Glazed Confit Jug in the Shape of a Bottle
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A green glazed confit jug in the shape of a bottle. Originating in France, circa 1890.
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19th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

Early 20th C. Pottery Vase
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautifully glazed pottery vase.
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Early 20th Century Unknown Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

19th Century French Gros Relief Barbotine Vase by Edouard Gilles
By Edouard Gilles
Located in Dallas, TX
A stunning example of gros relief barbotine, this vase has large, paper thin kaolin clay flowers
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1880s French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Bronze

Glazed Pot
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A taupe colored glazed pot.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

19th Century Brown and Mint Creamware Baroque Plate
Located in Miami, FL
Brown and mint creamware plate with late neoclassical watermark bordering scene depicting cavaliers of this period.  
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19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

Large Vienna Secession School Eichwald Vase
By Eichwald
Located in Vienna, AT
Rare great Vienna Secession EICHWALD vase shape and decoration in accordance with the Vienna School, from about 1910. Stylized floral Viennese decor with ramped vase foot and tulip...
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Early 1900s Austrian Vienna Secession Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

A Large Scale Chinese Pottery Jar
Located in Stamford, CT
WARRING STATES PERIOD / WESTERN HAN DYNASTY POTTERY JAR WITH STAMPED DECORATION The wide shoulders tapering sharply down to a flat base, the exterior crisply impressed with a checke...
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18th Century and Earlier Chinese Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

A Han Period Urn
Located in New York, NY
A Gray Han Urn
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18th Century and Earlier Chinese Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

Han Period Urn with Lid
Located in New York, NY
A Gray Han Period Urn with Lid
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18th Century and Earlier Chinese Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

Pair of French Bronze Mounted Barbotine Vases, Montigny Sur Loing circa 1860
Located in Dallas, TX
mounted barbotine vases are signed on the underside. Barbotine is a ceramic slurry (a mixture of clay and
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1860s French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Bronze

Pair of 19th century French Barbotine Vases, Edouard Gilles, Paris
By Edouard Gilles
Located in Dallas, TX
complete. The Kaolin clay was manipulated to a paper- thin fineness, formed into flowers, colored, applied
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Late 19th Century French Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Ceramic, Clay

Antique Julfar Ware Middle Eastern Earthenware Pottery Vase
Located in Bristol, GB
loose clay. Julfar or Julphar pottery originates from Ras-al-Khaimah in what is now the UAE it was
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19th Century Emirian Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay, Earthenware

Pot
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A clay pot.
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Early 1900s French Edwardian Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

Pot
$1,675
Monumental Terracotta Water Jar, Hand-Crafted Pottery, Java.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
This monumental water jar from Java is an authentic 19th-century terracotta vessel, traditionally
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Early 20th Century Indonesian Rustic Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay, Terracotta

Rookwood Blue Mackintosh Rose Vase
By Rookwood Pottery Co.
Located in Bloomfield Hills, MI
ceramic goods that were in high demand by American consumers. This stunning blue vessel is decorated with
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

Large Almohad Water Jar, Spain, 12th/13th Century
Located in London, GB
A fine green glazed "Alhambra" vase, Seville, Andalusia, 12th/13th century, classic form, very heavily potted rising through a tall rounded conical form to the pronounced rounded sho...
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15th Century and Earlier Spanish Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

Earthenware Pottery Vase
Located in South Salem, NY
An earthenware vase with a narrow neck and organic-shaped body. The natural patina enhances the already rustic material. The finish is a slate gray neck with a taupe body. Wear consi...
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Early 20th Century European Country Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

An unusual late 17th early 18th century Delft jug
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A Rare and Highly Attractive Late 17th/Early 18th Century Delft Jug with Loop Handle. Circa 1690-1710 The body painted in a naive manner with medallions of three country rabbits wit...
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1740s Danish Dutch Colonial Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

French Oil Jug
Located in Long Island City, NY
16th Century French oil jug found in a dive port in Nice with prolonged sea water exposure.
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16th Century French Art Deco Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay, Pottery

C. 1920 American Pottery
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautifully glazed pottery with bird and nature motif
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Early 20th Century American Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

19th Century Pot
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Antique ceramic trubal (water pot) from Guatemala. Has a few old cracks and nicks but is useful and sturdy. Handles and base in very good condition. Terrific relief and medallions ar...
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19th Century Guatemalan Spanish Colonial Antique Clay Vessel

Materials

Clay

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Antique Clay Vessel For Sale on 1stDibs

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the antique clay vessel you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Each antique clay vessel for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using ceramic, clay and terracotta. Your living room may not be complete without an antique clay vessel — find older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. An antique clay vessel made by Mid-Century Modern designers — as well as those associated with Arts and Crafts — is very popular. Biot, Rookwood Pottery Co. and Lobi People each produced at least one beautiful antique clay vessel that is worth considering.

How Much is a Antique Clay Vessel?

The average selling price for an antique clay vessel at 1stDibs is $1,400, while they’re typically $100 on the low end and $51,722 for the highest priced.

Finding the Right Vases-vessels for You

For thousands of years, vases and vessels have had meaningful functional value in civilizations all over the world. In Ancient Greece, ceramic vessels were used for transporting water and dry goods, holding bouquets of flowers, for storage and more. Outside of utilitarian use, in cities such as Athens, vases were a medium for artistic expressionpottery was a canvas for artists to illustrate their cultures’ unique people, beliefs and more. And pottery skills were handed down from fathers to sons.

Every antique and vintage vase and vessel, from decorative Italian urns to French 19th-century Louis XVI–style lidded vases, carries with it a rich, layered story. 

On 1stDibs, there is a vast array of vases and vessels in a variety of colors, sizes and shapes. Our collection features vessels made from delicate materials such as ceramic and glass as well as durable materials like rustproof metals and stone.

A contemporary vase can help introduce an air of elegance to your minimalist space while an antique Chinese jar would make a luxurious addition to an Asian-inspired interior. Alternatively, if you’re looking for a statement piece, consider an Art Deco vase crafted by Italian architect and furniture designer Gio Ponti.

Vases and vessels — be they handmade pots, handblown glass wine bottles or otherwise — are versatile, practical decorative objects, and no matter your particular design preferences, furniture style or color scheme, they can add beauty and warmth to any home. Find yours on 1stDibs today.

Questions About Antique Clay Vessel
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Clay vessels were often used for storing food items such as grain. The vessels were sometimes decorated and ornate. Similarly, clay pots were also used, mostly to store and transport water, store milk and serve beer. Find an assortment of clay vessels from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.