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Material: Majolica
Bauhaus Era Ceramic Bonsai Planter by Eva Zeisel Schramberg Art Deco Avantgarde
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This exceptional Bauhaus era ceramic bonsai planter or cachepot was designed by the renowned designer Eva Zeisel and produced by the Schramberger Majolika Manufaktur (SMF) in Germany...
Category
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Large French Pottery Majolica Pheasant Tureen circa 1930
Located in Austin, TX
Large French Pottery Majolica Pheasant Tureen circa 1930.
Category
1930s French Rustic Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica, Pottery
$384 Sale Price
20% Off
Rare Majolica Orchid Jardiniere Delphin Massier, Circa 1890
Located in Austin, TX
Rare Majolica Orchid Jardiniere attributed to Delphin Massier, circa 1890.
Measures: W / 17 inches , H / 8.3 inches.
The Massier family are known f...
Category
1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
$3,040 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Majolica Jardinière by Gustave de Bruyn Fives Lille Cherubs Lions Cobalt
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This Majolica jardinière is richly decorated, featuring a deep cobalt blue glaze as the base color. The sides are adorned with cherubs and lion heads in golden and brown tones, refle...
Category
Early 1900s French Renaissance Revival Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Blue and White Dutch Delft Tile: Stil life with vase and fruit, 17th Century
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
The Netherlands
Circa 1700
A fine blue and white Dutch tile with a still life painting of a vase with leaves and grapes and an apple on the sides.
The scene is painted without corn...
Category
1690s Dutch Baroque Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
19th Century Majolica Jardinière by Minton and Carlo Marochetti
By Minton
Located in London, GB
This exquisite jardinière was manufactured by the celebrated English company Minton, who are famous for their ceramics. It was designed by Baron Carlo Marochetti (1805-1867), an Italian-born sculptor who worked in London in the latter part of his career. His most famous work is the bronze sculpture of Richard the Lionheart...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
$4,286 Sale Price
30% Off
Vintage Italian Ceramic Animal Figurine Turkey Porcelain Bird Figure Tureen
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
Mid century tall Italian animal figurine Ceramic decorative Turkey Tureen with ladle Vitrine object
Material: porcelain, ceramic, tin glazed earthenware...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Majolica
Blue Butterflies Vase, Vessel Glazed Ceramic, Majolica Ornament, Handmade Italy
By deBlona
Located in Recanati, IT
Of extraordinary beauty and unique charm, the blue butterfly has always been considered the bearer of wishes. According to ancient beliefs it has the power to make dreams come true. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
19th Century French Barbotine Covered Bowl with Bird and Bird Nest Décor
Located in Atlanta, GA
A 19th century petite French faience bowl adorned with a bird and bird nest barbotine décor. This French pottery features a green colored body, decorated with exquisite colorful flow...
Category
19th Century French Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Majolica Palissy Puttis Jardinière, circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
Oversize Palissy jardinière inspired by the Renaissance attributed to Thomas Sergent, circa 1880.
Fauns heads handles.
The School of Paris was composed by makers as Victor Barbizet...
Category
1880s French Renaissance Revival Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic, Faience
$2,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Italian Reproduction Deruta Hand Painted Majolica Orci Vase
Located in Encinitas, CA
Lovely reproduction of Classic Renaissance Revival theme, expertly handcrafted and hand-painted Majolica glaze over terra cotta.
Mediterranean blue & golden yellow color theme. Made in Italy.
Limited edition, exclusively produced for Bellini's Antique Italia...
Category
2010s Italian Renaissance Revival Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Terracotta
18th-19th Century Spanish Colonial Majolica Pottery Angel Vase
Located in New York, NY
Antique Guatemalan majolica pottery vase, with hand painted floral design on front. Two angels adorn the upper rim, appearing at the top of each side peering out over their angel win...
Category
19th Century Guatemalan Spanish Colonial Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Pottery
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Italian Majolica Fountain Body/Vase
Located in Dallas, TX
This colorful antique Italian Majolica vase dates to the 1800s. This type of pottery was first produced during the Italian Renaissance, and it often depicted historical and mythologi...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
Majolica Frog with Mandolin Massier, circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
Art Nouveau green Majolica frog who playing mandolin unsigned Jerome Massier Fils, circa 1900.
The Massier are known for the quality of their unique enamels and paintings. The Massi...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic, Faience
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Byzantium Moon Jar Hand Painted Ceramic Italy Contemporary Maiolica
Located in London, GB
Byzantium moon jar, 2024, hand-painted maiolica fired with full reduction firing
40 cm diameter, unique piece.
Winner of the Best Object Ceramic & Glass at LAPADA Art & Antiques Fa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Delphin Massier Majolica Cockerel/Rooster Vase
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Delphin Massier Majolica figural vase which features a cockerel/rooster stood in front of a vase, which is modelled in the form of corn. Colouration: yellow, pink, teal blue, are pre...
Category
1890s Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
Majolica Parakeets Garniture Set Vases
Jardinière Sarreguemines, circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica Parakeets Garniture set with 2 vases and a jardinière planter signed Sarreguemines, circa 1880.
Model 7122.
Measures: Jardinière / Height 6.2", length 11" on 6".
Vases / ...
Category
1880s European Aesthetic Movement Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic
$1,280 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Hand-Painted Italian Majolica Vase from Orvieto, Signed “NP”, 1960s
Located in Brescia, Brescia
A beautifully hand-painted majolica amphora from Orvieto, dating to the 1960s and signed “NP / Orvieto” on the underside. Richly decorated with vibrant arabesque motifs and warm, sat...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Italian Majolica Pharmacy Jar
Located in Bradenton, FL
Late 18th century Italian Majolica Polychrome Pharmacy Jar or Albarello, dated 1777. These jars were use in apothecaries to hold medicinal herbs, powders...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Classical Roman Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
Cheetah Cub Figurine in Majolica Pottery by Ronzan Italy, 1950
s
Located in Oud Beijerland, NL
Very nice expressive Ronzan Italian majolica cheetah cub figurine.
Signed to the base in black script: RONZAN MADE IN ITALY 1571/A.
Dating from arou...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Pottery
Majolica George Jones Fox Serving Tray circa 1869
By George Jones
Located in Austin, TX
Elegant pink Majolica serving dish decorated with a three green vine leaves, the handle formed as a fox peering into the bowl with its tail appearing on the mottled underside signed ...
Category
1860s English Victorian Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$2,240 Sale Price
22% Off
Majolica Ceramic Dresser Box with Lid, Teal Blue White, Italy 1950s
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Large round dresser or trinket box with lid features graphic decor with stylized leaves and scrolls motifs on the sides and the lid. The handle is sculpted in shape of a large knot o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Majolica
$280 Sale Price
34% Off
19th Century Majolica Elephant Tobacco Jar Onnaing
By Onnaing
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica tobacco jar Onnaing, circa 1890.
The two handles are elephants heads, decorated with corn, the handle of the jat is a corn.
Usually in ...
Category
1890s French Majolica Pottery Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Majolica Elephant Tobacco Jar Onnaing
By Onnaing
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica tobacco jar signed Onnaing, circa 1890.
The two handles are elephants heads, decorated with corn, the handle of the jar is a corn.
Category
1890s French Majolica Pottery Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Majolica Fish Sealife Platter Vallauris, circa 1950
By Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica sealife platter Vallauris, circa 1950.
High relief of 2 fishs, seaweeds, lemon, starfish, shells, crab, oyster.
Nautical style.
Measure: 9.3 diameter.
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century French Monumental Renaissance Style Majolica Grapes Blue Vase
By Luneville
Located in Austin, TX
19th century French monumental Majolica blue vase with large grapes leaves and fruit stand two large trompe l'oeil rings on the two sides.
This vase...
Category
1880s French Renaissance Revival Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Faience, Ceramic, Majolica
$2,240 Sale Price
50% Off
Antique Victorian Historism Majolica Pedestal Bowl / Centerpiece Knights Dragons
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This antique Historism centerpiece / pedestal bowl is made of polychrom glazed majolica and features four cartouches decorated with high relief knight helmets and dragons. The manufa...
Category
1880s German Rococo Revival Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
$656 Sale Price
20% Off
Majolica Cherries Basket Sarreguemines, circa 1940
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica Trompe l'oeil basket with cherries handle signed Sarreguemines, circa 1940.
Category
1940s French Country Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
French Majolica Grapes Basket Sarreguemines, circa 1920
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica grapes basket signed Sarreguemines, circa 1920.
Category
1920s French Country Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$384 Sale Price
20% Off
French 1880s Barbotine Majolica Basket with High Relief Colorful Flowers
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French majolica basket from the late 19th century with high relief floral barbotine décor. Created in France during the last quarter of the 19th century, this majolica features a b...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
Large French Majolica Vase with Flowers Edouard Gilles, circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
Large French Majolica vase with flowers signed Edouard Gilles, circa 1880.
Painted flowers, impressionist period..
Category
1880s French Aesthetic Movement Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Vallauris Ceramic Majolica Candle Holder/ Candlestick, 1960s
By Vallauris
Located in Barcelona, ES
Glazed Ceramic Candle Holder by Vallauris, France, 1950-1960s
Beautiful candle holder for two candles in fat lava glazed ceramic.
Nice colors: Shades of brown with white and red acc...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Majolica Fish Sealife Platter Vallauris, circa 1950
By Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica sealife platter Vallauris, circa 1950.
High relief of fish, seaweeds and shells.
Nautical style.
Measure: 9.3" diameter.
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$560 Sale Price
20% Off
Majolica Fish Sealife Oysters Platter Vallauris, circa 1950
By Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica sealife oysters platter Vallauris, circa 1950.
High relief of seaweeds, starfish , oysters , mussel
Nautical style.
8.3 inches diameter
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$464 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Rare 19th Century Majolica Flowers Box
Located in Austin, TX
Large Rare 19th Century French Majolica Flowers Box .
12 inches Lenght.
Category
1880s French Rustic Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
$1,040 Sale Price
20% Off
Rare 19th Century Majolica Rose Cache Pot Delphin Massier
Located in Austin, TX
Rare French Majolica pink rose cache pot jardinière Delphin Massier, circa 1880.
The Massier family are known for the quality of their unique enamels and paintings. They produced an...
Category
1880s French Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Oval Majolica Palissy Crab and Fish Wall Platter Vallauris, circa 1950
By Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
Large oval Majolica Palissy crab and fish wall platter Vallauris, circa 1950
Large crab in relief, fish’s, shells and seaweeds.
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic, Faience
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Sculpture Giant Amphora Vase Majolica Hand Painted Four Seasons Art Nouveau
Located in Recanati, IT
Majestic amphora in glazed majolica, handmade and hand painted in central Italy. On the amphora are represented, in great detail, the four seasons personified by graceful women surro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Nouveau Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Pair Large Green and Blue Majolica Vases
Located in New York, NY
Pair large green and blue majolica apothecary jar vases. Italian cylindrical ribbed and slightly concave tin glaze earthenware jars by the famed Ca...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
$8,800 / set
Majolica Fish Sealife Platter Vallauris, circa 1950
By Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica sealife platter Vallauris, circa 1950.
High relief of 2 fishs, seaweeds, shells, crab, oyster.
Nautical style.
10 inches diameter
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$880 Sale Price
20% Off
Flower Vase, Early Art Deco, Blue Yellow Run Glaze, Ceramic, ~ 1915, France
Located in Wien, AT
Very decorative vase from the early art deco period, made in France.
This object has a shape that looks like the ancient Greek amphorae, but has a four-pass stand to ensure stabili...
Category
1910s French Art Deco Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
19th Century Majolica Chesnut Jardinière Saint Clement
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century Majolica Chesnut attributed to Jardinière Saint Clement.
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$1,040 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Majolica Kingfisher and Lilies Vases Fives Lille, circa 1880
By Fives-Lille
Located in Austin, TX
Elegant 19th century French Majolica pair of vases attributed to Fives Lille.
The vases are shaped like walls decorated on the front with kingfishers on branches, on the base mushro...
Category
1880s French Aesthetic Movement Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic, Faience
$2,000 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Large Vinatge Majolica Cache Pot
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A quirky and very retro French Barbotine Majolica cache pot dating from the 19th century, and featuring an eye-catching design of succulent painted fruits encircling its rim. The pot...
Category
20th Century French Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Porcelain
French Country Majolica Pheasant Tureen, circa 1950
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica pheasant tureen from Caugant, circa 1950.
Category
1950s French Country Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
Vallauris Majolica Blue Ceramic Hand Shaped Rings Stand or Vase
By Vallauris
Located in Barcelona, ES
Mid-Century Modern Blue Glazed Ceramic Hand Sculpture by Vallauris. France, 1950s
Eye-catching iridiscent blue ceramic hand vase with fat lava d...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica, Pottery
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Monumental Majolica Shell Jardiniere Circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning monumental Majolica pink clamshell jardiniere, circa 1880.
This yellow and brown footed shell is decorated with coral,seaweeds and yellow...
Category
1880s French Aesthetic Movement Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic, Faience
$4,640 Sale Price
20% Off
Majolica Cicada Vase Jerome Massier Fils, circa 1940
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica vase with cicada signed Jerome Massier Fils, circa 1940.
Provençal style.
Category
1950s French Country Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
Aldo Londi, Bitossi for Rosenthal Netter Set of Majolica Vases Green Gold
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Set of 2 vintage majolica vases was designed by Aldo Londi and produced by Bitossi for Rosenthal Netter. The streamlined, conical vases are decorated with bands of gold over texture...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold
19th Century Majolica Impressionist Flowers Box
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century Majolica Impressionist Flowers Box.
Category
1880s French Romantic Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century French Hand Painted Barbotine Faience Vase with Floral Motifs
Located in Dallas, TX
This impressive antique French barbotine vase is a masterful example of faience artistry, distinguished by its richly applied floral relief and painterly glaze. Standing 27 inches ta...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Faience, Majolica
Monumental Sarreguemines Urn
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This impressively sized urn is marked on the bottom, “Sarreguemines/1906//H”, “Made in Germany” with the Lorraine Coat of Arms . Nicolas-Henri Jacobi along with his two partners esta...
Category
Early 1900s German Belle Époque Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Majolica
Antique George Pull Majolica Bowl Dish Reticulated Floral Pattern c 1850 Palissy
By Georges Pull, Bernard Palissy
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This is an extremely rare majolica ceramic bowl by George Pull, dating back to around 1850, inspired by the works of Bernard Palissy from the 16th Century...
Category
1850s French Renaissance Revival Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Large French Majolica Palissy Fishs Vase Saint Honore Circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
Large French Majolica Palissy Fishs Vase signed Saint Honore Circa 1880.
Category
1880s French Victorian Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
$1,440 Sale Price
73% Off
Set of 19th C. French Montigny-sur-Loing Majolica Floral Vases and Jardinière
Located in Dallas, TX
Bring color and texture to your home with this exquisite Majolica set from Montigny-sur-Loing, France, circa 1870. Each hand-painted ceramic vessel, including two vases and a matchin...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
19th Century Majolica Bird
Flowers Platter
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century Continental Majolica Bird & Flowers Platter.
14 inches by 9.3 inches.
Category
Early 1900s French Rustic Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
French Pottery Majolica Rabbit Pâté Tureen circa 1950
Located in Austin, TX
French Pottery Majolica Rabbit Pate Tureen circa 1950.
Category
1950s French Rustic Vintage Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica, Pottery
Majolica Wall Pocket Dog Delphin Massier, circa 1890
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica dog wall pocket signed Delphin Massier.
Height / 7.3 inches.
The Massier are known for the quality of their unique enamels and paintings. The Massier family produced ...
Category
1890s French Victorian Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique English Joseph Roth Majolica Mantel Clock, 19th Century
By Joseph Roth London
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare and stylish antique English majolica pottery cased mantel clock attributed to Joseph Roth, London. The clock is lavishly designed with relief moulded floral designs to a shaped four legged base with a the key wind clock...
Category
1880s English High Victorian Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica, Pottery
Majolica Lily Flower Vase Jerome Massier, circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
Rare Majolica Lily vase Jerome Massier, circa 1900.
The Massier family are known for the quality of their unique enamels and paintings. They produced an ...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Majolica Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique and Vintage Majolica Vases, Bowls, Candleholders and Other Decorative Objects
The popularity of Victorian majolica, the gaily colored, metallic-oxide-glazed earthenware, has ebbed and flowed for more than a century. Right now, antique and vintage vases, bowls and other decorative objects appear to be having a moment — again.
Starting in the 1850s, people in the U.S. and the U.K. embraced these affordable housewares with unusual polychrome palettes (turquoise and pink) and whimsical forms (candlesticks shaped like dolphins). By the 1870s, majolica was being mass-produced for an ever-expanding middle class in countries like England, France, Sweden, Hungary and Portugal. Majolica was Art for Everyman. Its popularity coincided with interest in exotic Japonisme and scientific studies by the likes of Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin and John James Audobon.
Despite a similarity in name, Victorian majolica is significantly different in subject matter and form from its Italian forebear, Renaissance maiolica. That earlier earthenware bore gaily painted religious and mythological scenes, and unlike majolica, with its lively contours, was not molded or three dimensional.
What was the attraction of majolica for the 19th-century collector? “Imagine what it looked like in a Victorian interior, with dark woods, heavy drapes and upholstered chairs and sofas,” says Susan Weber, founder of the Bard Graduate Center in New York. “Majolica is robust and extremely tactile. With its naturalistic shapes, colorful glazes and often humorous themes, it appealed to the growing consumer society.”
In England, manufacturers like Minton began to produce decorative, relief-molded majolica tiles for the interiors of taverns, train stations, even the famous Queen’s Dairy at Frogmore, on the grounds of Windsor Castle. In 19th-century France, Sèvres and smaller ceramics firms began to reinterpret the snake-decorated platters made by Bernard Palissy, a 16th-century self-taught French potter. The result was a type of majolica called Palissy ware, which, like the originals, was festooned with odd creatures (lobsters, lizards and snakes) modeled by hand.
The late Moroccan-born, Paris-based decorator Alberto Pinto often placed Palissy ware in his clients’ living rooms, posing individual pieces on brackets against a background of stamped, gilded leather. Pinto, in turn, influenced such contemporary decorators as Harry Heissmann of New York. After 1900, people got swept up in the romanticism of Art Nouveau and ceased buying majolica. The 1970s saw a revival of interest, and in 1982, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York, organized “English Majolica,” an exhibition featuring 75 examples from Minton, Wedgwood and George Jones, among other makers.
On 1stDibs, find antique and vintage majolica tea sets, vases, candlesticks, tureens and other furniture and decorative objects.
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Large Bronze Horse Sculpture
Large Wood Elephant