French Bowls and Baskets

French Empire period wastepaper basket.

Large Abstract Raku Glazed Studio Ceramic Bowl, Japanese-Style Mid-Century Design, Large Raku Fired Studio Pottery Bowl Attributed to Michel Brainin, Japanese-Style Glaze, Exceptiona...

"Bird under the sun ", 1952 Turn round ash tray / cup Diameter 14,5 cm White earthenware clay with oxidized paraffin decoration 500 copies produced Stamped on back: "Edition Picass...

French 19th century white opaline candy dish with brass snake hardware. The opaline has golden decorations on the edges.

A beautiful stoneware bowl with amazing glaze. Made by Tyra Lundgren. Executed during the artist's time spent at Sèvres, between 1934-1939. Excellent condition. Impressed with artist's name and maker's marks. Tyra Lundgren (1897-1979) was one of the most multifaceted artists and modernists of the twentieth century. She was a painter, drawer, sculptor, ceramist, glass- and textile designer, as well as an author and an art critic. She was the first woman who designed glass for Paolo Venini at Murano in Venice and she also served as the artistic leader at Arabia in Helsinki at a time when men tended to hold those kinds of positions. Tyra Lundgren grew up in Djursholm, near Stockholm. Her parents were John Petter Lundgren, professor at Veterinärinstitutet (institute of veterinary sciences) in Stockholm, and Edith Lundgren née Åberg, who was a housewife and raised their six children. The bourgeois home also comprised a nanny and a female cook. The family were very socially active, travelled often, and enjoyed the outdoor lifestyle. Tyra Lundgren’s schooling began at Djursholm coeducational school, where her teachers included Natanael and Elsa Beskow and Alice Tegnér. Her school friends included Greta Knutson-Tzara, Stellan Mörner, and Ingrid Rydbeck-Zuhr. Tyra Lundgren knew from the time she was five years old that she wanted to be an artist. She first became aware of the profession through Axel Fahlcrantz, who rented a studio on the plot of land where she lived with her family. In 1913 she began to attend Högre konstindustriella skolan (HKS, now known as Konstfack, college of arts, crafts and design) where she studied decorative art as well as handicrafts in various forms until 1917. One of her fellow students and friends there was Estrid Ericson, who later founded Svenskt Tenn AB in 1924. Whilst attending HKS Tyra Lundgren also took painting lessons at the Althin school of painting. In 1917 she was accepted as a candidate at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts where, apart from breaks during which she undertook studies abroad, she remained until 1922. She spent a couple of months taking lessons from Anton Hanak in Vienna and from 1920–1923 she was a student of André Lhote in Paris. Tyra Lundgren was primarily active in four countries: Sweden, Finland, France, and Italy. She spent much of her professional life travelling and considered herself to be a European. Greece and Mexico also formed important centres in her artistic life, as did the USA. She had an extensive social network which included focal individuals within twentieth century-European and American artistic and cultural circles. Tyra Lundgren’s main artistic motifs were birds, fish, and people which she depicted through different techniques and materials. Her artistic expression involved a variety of different directions and styles. She was a pioneer of the 1920s Swedish Grace style, the name of which had been coined by the art critic Morton Shand at the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930. This was a Swedish Art Deco style, characterised by elegance and traditional art which contrasted with the current artistic ideals of functionalism. Tyra Lundgren made her debut at a group exhibition held at Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna in 1921. She went on to show her work at various exhibitions throughout the 1920s. After that period she only very rarely exhibited her paintings. Tyra Lundgren’s painted output can be divided into different periods or stylistic directions. The first of these, and the most extensive, was her post-Cubist period which began in 1920 on her arrival in Paris. Her paintings from this time and right up to the mid-1930s typically comprise portraits, self-portraits, live-model painting, still-lifes, interiors, and landscapes in the Cubist style. Many of the great number of self-portraits she painted were produced in the New Objective style, displaying broad variation in terms of clothes, poses and techniques. Two of these – Huvud med vit duk and Självporträtt both from 1921 – can be seen at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, although the majority of these works are at Gotlands Museum. Tyra Lundgren’s second artistic period comprises the years of 1927 to 1929 and is characterised by the New Objective style inspired by medieval techniques and materials (Giotto, Piero della Francesca). Her motifs were still-lifes and landscapes. At this point she was living in Rome and was close to the circle involved in the Valori plastici: rivista d’arte art journal. This period saw a breakthrough in her development as a painter. From the 1950s through the 1970s her work can almost be described as belonging to the Concrete style. Using light pastel colours her paintings sought light in a sometimes non-figurative expression, but often depicting abstract bird-shapes or other nature-inspired imagery. Her paintings from this period are outsized and display powerful colours, in yellows, reds, and blues. Tyra Lundgren maintained a constant production of drawings, both in terms of individual artworks and sketches for patterns and designs. She also produced the illustrations for her book Fagert i Fide. Årstiderna på en gammal gotlandsgård, published in 1961. During her early years she also produced advertising illustrations. She spent the final years of her life primarily working with lithographs which were printed at Galleri Prisma and depicted images of doves, swallows, magpies and crows. Tyra Lundgren is meanwhile best known for her work as a ceramist and in this sphere she was one of Sweden’s leading exponents. She worked in the porcelain industry as a designer and as an artisan and ceramic sculptor. Her first job was at St Eriks Lervarufabrik in Uppsala from 1922–1924, she then worked at Arabia from 1924–1937, and at Rörstrand and Lidköping Porslinsfabrik. She was the artistic leader at Arabia ahead of the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition and she exhibited her work at the World’s Fairs. During the 1934–1938 period she was connected to the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres porcelain factory in Paris. Tyra Lundgren was a pioneer when it came to giving ceramic art a public space in Sweden. She produced around 20 outsized reliefs in stoneware, so-called monumental reliefs. One of these is Märkeskvinnor, from 1947, for the former girls’ school at Bohusgatan in Stockholm. From the 1940s onwards Tyra Lundgren produced sculptural objects in Chamotte clay and stoneware, with various glazings. Her small birds are well-known and popular with many. When her ceramic efforts became too much for her during the 1970s she then produced models for sculptures in bronze. There are six of these in various places around the globe, including Solfågel in Almedalen, Visby. Tyra Lundgren began to work as a glassware designer at Moser in Karlsbad in 1922 where she designed new table services and modernised older ones. She also worked freelance for Riihimäki factory in Finland during the 1924–1929 period. From 1934 to 1938 she was employed by Kosta glass factory where she mainly designed thick-walled bowls and vases, engraved with classical motifs. She was introduced to the glassmaker Paolo Venini at Murano during the Triennale di Milano of 1936 and they began a collaboration that lasted into the 1950s. As part of this collaboration Tyra Lundgren became the first woman to design glassware and, in conjunction with the glassblower Arturo Biasutto, she developed new techniques of glass production. Her motifs at this point were birds, fish, snail-shaped designs and leaf-patterned bowls using traditional techniques as well as in new designs. It was during this time that she created the so-called tissue-shaped bowls and it remains unclear as to who specifically came up with the design but Tyra Lundgren claimed it was of her making. Tyra Lundgren was active as textile designer for Licium (now HV Licium), the sacred textiles...

French (Late 20th Century) Baccarat \"Objectiv\" Decorative Crystal Bowl having a flaired design and scalloped edge top (#2102478 with case)

Jacques Buchholtz Large porcelain ceramic cup or bowl or vide poche Unique handmade piece realised circa 1980 original perfect condition Signed under the base Light gr...

1960s modern Lalique France clear crystal sculptural bowl.

Set of six glass bowls with gilt rim. Six antique gilt-rimmed finger bowls/ice cream bowls/floating rose bowls to set at table. France, circa 1920s. D...

Pre-owned goods are exempt from import duties for U.S. customers. Therefore, no import tariffs will be applicable to your purchase. Adrien Mazoyer (1887-1950) French glass artist f...

Claire Berger Realised in La Borne circa 1980 Large stoneware ceramic plate with colored black and red abstract decoration Original perfect decoration...

Weathered French grape harvesting basket or hotte crafted from patinated zinc. The gracefully curved form features an old, faded and distre...

Mid-Century French Wicker basket with Metal. Wood border.

Barbotine dish for vegetables: asparagus or artichokes as it is represented or for any other vegetables or use French art nouveau, circa 1900 Manufacture in Luneville, France Good...

The French ceramist René Maurel's (1910-1986) work is renowned for being singular and unique in the post-war Ceramic School of Vallauris. This strangely sh...

Embark on a journey through time with this enchanting pair of trash bins, relics from the early 1940s. Crafted in the distinctive Brutalist style, their designs radiate simplicity an...

Glorifying the effects of refracted light for 170 years, the iconic Baccarat vases are well-known all over the world. A crystal grass green masterpiece of exceptional proportions, t...

Jardiniere Bowl "Cluny" made in glass with grey patina by René Lalique in 1944. Stamped "R.LALIQUE FRANCE" signature on bottom. Perfect condition. Rare model. Dimensions : 34,5 cm...

Inspired by the movement of plants and flowers, Art Nouveau is a decorative style associated with art and architecture during the late 19th early 20th centuries. Sometime after 1900, the undulating lines associated with Art Nouveau began to disappear and were replaced by geometrical shapes. That places the crafting of this silvered bronze table...

Handmade antique, rustic French stoneware decorative lidded bowl with two large semicircle handles. Thick umber glaze. Beautiful vintage condition consistent with age. France, early ...

Rope and Cork Fruits Basket Audoux Minet. 15.3 inches.

Wonderful tabletop accessory that's a 19th century wire and metal basket planter, filled with tole leaves in a gunmetal grey.

1950s French Olive Wood Mortar and Pestle – Exquisite Brutalist Design Bowl size: 19cm x 18 cm Height 14 cm.

Hollywood Regency Foliage centerpiece in gilt iron, France, 1950s. One of a kind decorative handcrafted centerpiece featuring two branches h...

A classic and opulent crystal and gilt bronze Louis XVI-style vase, its goblet-shaped heavy crystal bowl diamond cut and fluted to refract the light...

Large Delicately glazed hand-painted charger dish or wall platter depicting a young female in headscarf. It is hand signed indistinguishable/unknown, France, 66. I can be displayed o...

Enameled metal plate designed by Mathieu Matégot. Manufactured by Atelier Matégot (France), circa 1950. Lacquered perforated metal, seem to be repainted many years ago. In great ori...

Beautiful vintage Hermès catchall with a relief Cornucopia design in the center surrounded by scale engraving. Lovely bronze patina emerging from the relief design. Beautiful accent ...

La Borne potters Realised circa 1970 Large stoneware ceramic dish or bowl Signed under the base Original perfect condition height 9 cm Large 22 cm

Jean Austruy Unique piece realised, circa 1950. Large white and grey ceramic vide poche or plate by Jean Austruy. Original perfect condition. Signed Measures: height 1...

A magnificent French marble mortar from the 19th century, an authentic and rare piece that embodies the elegance and refinement of French craftsmanship. This marble mortar, manufact...

A 19th century antique French patinated bronze tri-pod vase or urn featuring cherubs, foliage and torches. The vase rim or mouth is finely crafted in acanthus motif. Timeless and cla...

A fine antique Chantilly French porcelain low bowl. Decorated in an underglaze blue sprig pattern with additional cold painted iron-red leaves and ...

Handmade wood garden trug joined by dove tails and hand forged iron nails with peened iron reinforcements. The handle is hand forged iron with a rope twist element and hook for the i...

A beautiful pair of antique Baccarat bronze figural compotes with cut crystal bowls. Circa 1900, featuring cherub mounts on a bronze pedestal, these stunning pieces are stamped "FRAN...

Pierre Digan Realised circa 1970 Set of 6 ceramics mugs or coffee cup by French designer Original perfect condition Black ceramic glaze color Measures: Height : 6 cm ...

Wonderful mid-century pocket emptier in lucite with tortoiseshell effect and silver. This fantastic piece was designed in France following the st...

A set of two ceramic dishs by Jacques Lignier with beige, green, red glaze decorations. Perfect original conditions. Signed under the base "J. Lignier", circa 1960-1970. Measures...

Modernist Bowl in Olive Wood, France 1960s Crafted from a single piece of olive wood, showcasing its striking natural grain patterns. Beautiful design that highlights the natural ...

Jacques Buchholtz Elegant porcelain ceramic cup or bowl Signed under the base Green celadon ceramic glaze color height 7 cm Large 17 cm.

Pink and gold Chinoiserie vide-poche. French porcelain raspberry pink and gold painted ashtray with central gold pagoda pavilion with raised out curving pink...

A heavy round copper curd pan from Burgundy, France, c. 1880. This piece has a beautiful patinated finish, both inside and out. This antique makes a fantastic art piece or imparts a ...

Pierre Roulot Signed and dated 1958 Rare black and yellow 20th century ceramic dish with a fish decoration Original perfect condition Measures: Height 4 cm Large 21 cm.

Jacques Buchholtz Unique piece Red stoneware ceramic cup or bowl by french artist Jacques Buchholtz Original perfect condition Signed Height 5 cm Large 19 cm.

Unique sculptural square bronze container with tilted black enamel sides. In good vintage condition. Very heavy. This vide-poches will ship from France and can be returned to either ...

This special shaped bowl was designed by André Baud for his studio in Vallauris, c. 1950. It is made of earthenware with matt black glaze and overlaid decor...

Le Triskel Pair of ceramic plates or vide poche Elegant ceramic white and yellow glazes colors Signed under the base Original perfect condition Measures: Height 3 cm ...

French Faience pate tureen with rabbits Circa 1920.

This nice mortar is made of white marble. This is a French work from 18th Century

Majolica wire basket Salins circa 1890. Grapes and leaves.

Article: Umbrella stand Origin: France Age: 1970s This original vintage Bauhaus style umbrella stand was produced in the 1970s in France. It is made of natural rattan with...

Large Art Deco bowl by Pierre d'Avesn - Emerald green. A rare and sculptural piece of Art Deco design, this large pressed-molded glass bowl is distinguished by its emerald green hue...

Grandjean-Jourdan 'Faux Bois' Ceramic Centerpiece, Vallauris, France, 1960s. Fantastic ceramic centerpiece by pottery artist Eugène Grandjean for his family company Grandjean-Jou...

François Marechal, La Borne Elegant brown stoneware ceramic cup. Original good condition Abstract black and brown ceramic glaze decoration ...

Catherine Mathieu Unique handmade piece realised circa 1975 Grey and brown stoneware ceramic glazes colors Large stoneware ceramic plate or decorative vide poche Original perfect condition Signed height 6 cm Large 25 cm Depth 25 cm

JM Doix Brown stoneware ceramic plate or decorative dish Unique hand made piece realised circa 1980 Signed under the base Original perfect condition Abstract decoratio...

La Borne Realised circa 1970 original black and brown large stoneware ceramic bowl or cup Perfect condition Signed at the base Measures: Height 14 cm Large 25 cm.

Mid-century rope & wood basket Adrien Audoux and Frida Minet.

A magnificent mid-19th century blue overlay crystal covered drageoir, showcasing the refinement and precision of Bohemian glassmaking. The deep cobalt-blue casing has been delicately...

A charming and sculptural mid-20th-century French wicker grape harvesting basket, sourced from the vineyards of the Champagne region. Crafted entirely by hand, this basket was used d...