Nove di Bassano Ceramics

Midcentury Green, White and Black Striped Ceramic Vase by Serra. A beautiful striped glazed ceramic vase Manufacured by Cerámicas Serra, Spain, 1960s Designed by Josep Serra. This colorful terracotta ceramic vase has stripes in green, black and shades of gray on a white background. Signed ' Serra' underneath. It can be placed alone used as decorative vase or flower vase but it would be nice also as a part of a collection of ceramic vase. Measures: 25 cm height x 11.5 cm diameter About Serra: Serra ceramics factory was a well known ceramics catalan manufacturer with three generations of ceramists. The workshop was founded by Antoni Serra one of the first ceramists in Spain who found an artistic ceramics workshop/studio. Josep Serra with his brothers Antoni and Enric followed his father in the art of ceramics at Can Famades, the new Studio at Cornellà, Barcelona. Josep Serra became the Manager at Cerámicas Serra at the 1930s. The Serra brothers participated in different exhibitions and awards. Jordi Serra...

Monumental green and white glazed ceramic stoneware floor vase from the Artist Helmut Friedrich Schäffenacker, Germany, 1960s. Stunning piece with artist mark. Measures: H 57 x 23 D...

Amazing pair of Italian black vases or Bucaros with lid ,in black ceramic , large in size and of great decorative strength in their shapes. The pieces are made by hand, so each piec...

A large, beautiful, and rare 19th century neoclassical reticulated Meissen centerpiece with open filigree, rams heads, flaming finial, and love bir...

Set of two Bitossi Aldo Londi for Cer Paoli Sahara range ceramic vases. Italy, 1960s. Ceramiche Paoli "Cer Paoli" was created at the end of the Second World ...

Rare design by Aldo Londi for Bitossi. Rimini Blue ceramic footed vase with geometric motifs, Italy, 1960s This stunning glazed ceramic vase has a pattern with circles in dark blue with rhombus inside in shades of green / turquoise color accented by decorative flowers. Excellent vintage condition. This piece is perfect as a gift idea and it could placed alone or with other 'Rimini Blu'Bitossi pieces creating a set. Display it in a cabinet or on a console table, with flowers or just as a cool decorative vase. Measures: 22 cm height x 18 cm diameter (8,66 in height X 7,08 in diameter ) More Bitossi Aldo Londi pieces are avaliable at our 1stdibs marketplace. About Bitossi (Manufacturer) Like a Fellini movie, the ceramics of this famed Italian company embody a creative spectrum that ranges from the playful and earthy to the high-minded and provocative. Based in Florence, Bitossi Ceramiche draws on craft traditions that date back to the 1500s. These find expression in the artisanal vases and animal figures by the firm’s longtime art director Aldo Londi, as well as the colorful, totemic vessels designed by the high priest of postmodernism, Ettore Sottsass. The company was incorporated by Guido Bitossi in 1921, though the family began making art pottery in the mid-19th century. In the 1930s, Londi came aboard, bringing with him a mindset that respected time-honored craft, yet looked also to the future. On the one hand, Londi’s perspective fostered the making of Bitossi’s popular whimsical animal figures, hand-shaped and -carved and finished in a rich azure glaze known as “Rimini Blue.” But with his other hand, Londi reached out to thoughtful, experimental designers such as Sottsass. Starting in the 1950s, some 20 years before he founded the Memphis Postmodern design...

Beautiful one of a kind vase made of heavy glazed stoneware with cubist motifs of circles and squares melting together with exquisite turquoise colors. Some imperfection in the glazi...

Italian Mid-Century Modern design ceramic centerpiece designed by Franco Pozzi for Ceramiche Franco Pozzi composed of two stackable elements with printed manufacturer’s mark under bo...

Minton Majolica centerpiece, naturalistically modeled as a pond bed with simulated water glazed in cyan blue, with green glazed lily pads and flowering pond lilies (lotus), and reeds glazed in various shades of green, with brown and ochre-glazed cattails molded in high relief to form the border, with a central lotus flower glazed in white and blue, concealing a solid brass original fitting for a candle, doubling as a receptacle for an (optional) additional tier which would have screwed into the fitting; the fitting is removable. Impressed marks to reverse: 'MINTON' and Minton date cypher for 1863; an impressed 'A' possibly for the designer, Thomas Allen...

A rare and exquisitely detailed pair of ceramic fruit topiary vases, attributed to Ceramica Nove di Bassano, Italy, circa 1950s. Entirely hand-as...

Large German Midcentury handled ceramic vase or jar with off white craquelling glaze. Marked on bottom : Handmade Germany, L.         

A Wiener Keramik Werkstätte centerpiece in black and off white. The piece by the wiener Keramische likely dates to circa 1910 or so. It is stamped WKW on the base and marked Austria ...