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Organic Modern Style, Terracotta Jug, Chipping Campden, 1980s Studio Pottery
Located in Glasgow, GB
style of pottery decoration was achieved using what's known as 'wax resist'—a skilled studio pottery
Category
Late 20th Century British Organic Modern Pitchers
Materials
Stoneware, Terracotta
Ray Finch Winchcombe Studio Pottery Square Dish, 20th Century
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
in brown tenmoku style glazes in a wax resist fence pattern over a mottled green stoneware glazed
Category
20th Century English Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche
Materials
Stoneware
Ray Finch Winchcombe Studio Pottery Square Dish, 20th Century
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
in brown tenmoku style glazes in a wax resist fence pattern over a mottled green stoneware glazed
Category
20th Century English Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche
Materials
Stoneware
Mysterious Indonesian Animal Batik Textile
Located in New York, NY
Francisco. could also be a copy. tough to tell!
Measures: 3'x 6'
Batik is a technique of wax-resist
Category
Mid-20th Century Indonesian Anglo-Japanese Pillows and Throws
Materials
Textile
Andrianna Shamaris Antique Balinese Ceremonial Sarong
Located in New York, NY
. Batik is an Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the entire textile. We have a
Category
Vintage 1960s Indonesian Tribal Pillows and Throws
Materials
Cotton
A Printed Cotton cloak Visite - Provence Circa 1820-1850
Located in Toulon, FR
century and was probably made in Alsace. Wax-resist printed cotton for the black and green background and
Category
1820s French Capes
Andrianna Shamaris Antique Balinese Ceremonial Sarong
Located in New York, NY
many uses for these soft cotton batiks. Batik is an Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing applied
Category
Mid-20th Century Indonesian Tribal Pillows and Throws
Materials
Cotton
Andrianna Shamaris Antique Balinese Ceremonial Sarong
Located in New York, NY
. Batik is an Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the entire textile. We have a
Category
Mid-20th Century Indonesian Tribal Pillows and Throws
Materials
Cotton
Andrianna Shamaris Balinese Antique Ceremonial Sarong
By Andrianna Shamaris
Located in New York, NY
Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the entire textile. The price reflects one and the sizes
Category
Vintage 1960s Indonesian Organic Modern Textiles
Materials
Textile
Andrianna Shamaris Balinese Antique Ceremonial Sarong
By Andrianna Shamaris
Located in New York, NY
. Batik is an Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the entire textile with a copper stamp
Category
Vintage 1960s Indonesian Organic Modern Textiles
Materials
Textile
Andrianna Shamaris Antique Balinese Ceremonial Sarong
Located in New York, NY
. Batik is an Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the entire textile. We have a
Category
Mid-20th Century Indonesian Tribal Pillows and Throws
Materials
Cotton
Large Impressive British Tenmoku Glazed Studio Pottery Lidded Pot
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
glazes with wax resist linear patterning repeated around the body of the pot with a matted contrasting
Category
20th Century English Modern Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Bottle (Vase)
By Shoji Hamada
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist: Shoji Hamada
Title: BOttle
Medium: Stoneware, Iron Pigment Brushwork, Wax Resist, Kaki
Category
1940s Modern Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Glaze, Pigment
Roy Hamilton "Faux Marble" Bowl, circa 1980
By Roy Hamilton
Located in Kinderhook, NY
creating pattern with a hot-wax resist method derived from Batik printing of cloth. Hamilton has produced
Category
Vintage 1980s American Decorative Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
Margaret Putnam Painting “Praise”
By Margaret Putnam
Located in Dallas, TX
. She worked in oil, watercolor, wax resist, casein, and pastel, exploring new avenues, developing new
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
Figurative Watercolor Painting by Gina Lombardi Bratter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sicilian artist. In 1968 Gina Lombardi became interested in Indonesian wax resist techniques. From the
Category
Vintage 1980s American Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
John Piper, Abstract, Landscape, Tetbury, 1957, Watercolor, Gouache, Pastel
By John Piper
Located in Eversholt, Bedfordshire
use of wax resist to give a stippled effect through layers of colour is particularly interesting
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache
John Piper, Abstract, Landscape, Tetbury, 1957, Watercolor, Gouache, Pastel
By John Piper
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
use of wax resist to give a stippled effect through layers of colour is particularly interesting
Category
Vintage 1950s Modern Drawings
Materials
Paper
John Piper, Tetbury, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pastel, 20th Century, Abstract
By John Piper
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
vocabulary of textures. Particularly interesting is the subtle use of wax resist to give a stippled effect
Category
Vintage 1950s Drawings
Materials
Paper
"Portrait of a Young Lady" Mid Century Margaret Putnam
By Margaret Putnam
Located in San Antonio, TX
had the vision that she had. She worked in oil, watercolor, wax resist, casein, and pastel, exploring
Category
1960s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"The Blue Eye" Mid Century Modern Texas Abstract
By Margaret Putnam
Located in San Antonio, TX
could not be otherwise because no one had the vision that she had. She worked in oil, watercolor, wax
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
"Dove" Mid Century Modern Texas Abstract
By Margaret Putnam
Located in San Antonio, TX
not be otherwise because no one had the vision that she had. She worked in oil, watercolor, wax resist
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
"Half Heart" Mid Century Modern Texas Abstract
By Margaret Putnam
Located in San Antonio, TX
could not be otherwise because no one had the vision that she had. She worked in oil, watercolor, wax
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
"JUGGLER" MID CENTURY MODERN (1913-1989) COURT JESTER COLORFUL FUN
By Margaret Putnam
Located in San Antonio, TX
oil, watercolor, wax resist, casein, and pastel, exploring new avenues, developing new techniques
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Tree"
By Margaret Putnam
Located in San Antonio, TX
vision that she had. She worked in oil, watercolor, wax resist, casein, and pastel, exploring new avenues
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"INTO THE DEEP" JONAH
By Margaret Putnam
Located in San Antonio, TX
no one had the vision that she had. She worked in oil, watercolor, wax resist, casein, and pastel
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Psalm 121:1 "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills" Texas Artist San Antonio
By Margaret Putnam
Located in San Antonio, TX
oil, watercolor, wax resist, casein, and pastel, exploring new avenues, developing new techniques
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Foil
"Two Figures" Etching
By Margaret Putnam
Located in San Antonio, TX
she had. She worked in oil, watercolor, wax resist, casein, and pastel, exploring new avenues
Category
1960s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Etching
"The Pavillion" Mid Century Modern Texas Painting Large
By Margaret Putnam
Located in San Antonio, TX
oil, watercolor, wax resist, casein, and pastel, exploring new avenues, developing new techniques
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Recitative, Ping Pang
Pong" MCM MID CENTURY MODERN BATIK
By Margaret Putnam
Located in San Antonio, TX
not be otherwise because no one had the vision that she had. She worked in oil, watercolor, wax resist
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Lamp Dancers" Batik on Silk Texas Modernist Margaret Putnam
By Margaret Putnam
Located in San Antonio, TX
she had. She worked in oil, watercolor, wax resist, casein, and pastel, exploring new avenues
Category
1960s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
"Sand, Sea, and Sky" Mid Century Modern Texas Painting Large
By Margaret Putnam
Located in San Antonio, TX
had the vision that she had. She worked in oil, watercolor, wax resist, casein, and pastel, exploring
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
J. Parker - 1881 Watercolour, Portrait of an Elderly Soldier
Located in Corsham, GB
hard life. Parker has used touches of white wax crayon to create a resist effect, emphasizing his
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Live Edge Cedar Hand-Made Dining Table
Located in Hixson, TN
view of the special woodgrain. Next, it was thickly coated in brown wax, which resists scratches. Easy
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American American Craftsman Dining Room Ta...
Materials
Cedar
A Quilting Indian Chintz Palampore And Taffeta Bedcover Circa 1720/1750
Located in Toulon, FR
. Printed cotton, mordant and resist dyed, wax reserve and pincelled finish in red, black, purple and yellow
Category
Early 18th Century French Textiles and Quilts
Bellini Italian Art Pottery Vase Atomic Orange Stencil Wax Resist Ground
By Bellini Studio
Located in Wilton, CT
yellow wax resist ground, circa 1970's. 11 1/2" high, 6 1/2" diameter. Excellent condition.
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Vases
Materials
Pottery
Vic Bracke California Studio Stoneware Pottery Vase with Wax Resist Glazing
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Stoneware pottery vase with wax resist decoration created by Vic Bracke of Bakersfield, California
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Stoneware
1960s Bagni for Raymor Wax Resist Bamboo Design Italian Pottery Lamp
By Alvino Bagni
Located in Wilton, CT
Striking Alvino Bagni pop art pottery lamp with wax resist bamboo design in metallic black on
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Pottery
David Leach Tenmoku
Dolomite Glazed Wax Resist Studio Pottery Bowl
By David Leach
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
speckling and with wavy wax resist lines revealing the glaze beneath. This absolutely stunning example has
Category
20th Century English Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Stoneware
Geoffrey Whiting Avoncroft Wax Resist Leafy Stem Design Studio Pottery Vase
By Geoffrey Whiting
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
glazed ground with wax resist leafy twig like designs repeated around the body by renowned and highly
Category
Vintage 1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Marianne De Trey Studio Porcelain Wax Resist Linear Patterned Vase
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine British studio pottery porcelain fluted vase with wax linear decoration by renowned potter
Category
Vintage 1980s English Modern Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Rice Plantation - Original Wax by J. Soedihono - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
1976.
Batik is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the whole cloth, or cloth made using this
Category
1970s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Wax
"Sunburst Dash" Hand-Painted Hide by AVO
By AVO
Located in Los Angeles, CA
grey with white wax resist.
Category
2010s American Mid-Century Modern North and South American Rugs
Materials
Leather
Tim Keenan Ceramic Vase
By Tim Keenan
Located in San Diego, CA
abstract expressionist wax resist design, Keenan is a highly skilled potter and artist.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern Vases
Materials
Clay
Bagni Ceramiche Tulip Vase by Alvino Bagni, Italy, circa 1970
By Bagni Ceramiche, Alvino Bagni
Located in Pymble, NSW
wax-resist pattern of flowers and leaves in excellent condition.
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Pottery
Joel Edwards California Studio Pottery Bowl
By Joel Edwards
Located in San Diego, CA
Stoneware bowl with wax resist decoration by California artist, Joel Edwards. 1960s
Joel Edwards
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
Big Vintage Hanging Bitossi Italian Art Pottery Plate Charger Cubist Still Life
By Bitossi
Located in Wilton, CT
glazes separated by a wax resist outline. Design number 1841 dated to 1959-1961. Sturdy steel wire for
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Pottery
Ethnic Blue - Original Batik - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
.
Includes frame: 65.5 x 1 x 61 cm
Batik is an Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper
Indonesian scene - Original Batik - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
folds.
Includes frame: 65.5 x 1 x 61 cm
Batik is an Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing applied
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Palm Springs Diamonds Stoneware Vase
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
create a striated texture. Patterns are masked off using tape and wax resist and finished with a satin
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern Vases
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Palm Springs Tapered Stoneware Vase
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
striated texture. Patterns are masked off using tape and wax resist and finished with a satin-matte ivory
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern Vases
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Palm Springs Urn Stoneware Vase
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
striated texture. Patterns are masked off using tape and wax resist and finished with a satin-matte ivory
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern Vases
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Indian Ascetic Early Work by Margot Lovejoy, Mixed-Media on Paper
By Margot Lovejoy
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
An Indian ascetic early work by Margot Lovejoy, mixed-media, pencil, crayon, watercolor, wax resist
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Wax, Watercolor
Andrianna Shamaris Balinese Antique Ceremonial Sarong
By Andrianna Shamaris
Located in New York, NY
for these soft cotton batiks. Batik is an Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the
Category
Vintage 1960s Indonesian Organic Modern Textiles
Materials
Textile
Bernard Leach Miniature Floral Design Studio Vase, 20th Century
By Bernard Leach
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
raised narrow neck and is decorated in mottled brown over cream glazes, a wax resist floral design
Category
20th Century English Vases
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Beautiful Lilly Batik, 1977, Signed by C. Powell
Located in New York, NY
selected areas of cloth before dying it. The parts covered in wax resist the dye and remain the original
Category
1970s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Dye, Wax
Vintage Women
s Jacket, Miao of Guizhou, China, Mid-20th Century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
.
Worn on festive occasions, this distinctive jacket is decorated with a batik wax-resist design on the
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Tribal Textiles
Materials
Cotton
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Wax Resist For Sale on 1stDibs
At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal wax resist for your home. A wax resist — often made from ceramic, pottery and porcelain — can elevate any home. There are many kinds of the wax resist you’re looking for, from those produced as long ago as the 20th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. A wax resist made by Mid-Century Modern designers — as well as those associated with Modern — is very popular. Peter Beard, Alvino Bagni and Geoffrey Whiting each produced at least one beautiful wax resist that is worth considering.
How Much is a Wax Resist?
Prices for a wax resist can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $295 and can go as high as $4,000, while the average can fetch as much as $560.
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