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Vintage Decorative Nefertiti Egyptian Queen Bust Statue on Marble Base
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A classic decorative bust statue. Some wear with a nice patina, but this is old-age. Made of metal on a Marble base. Very decorative and nice to display in your library or any room.
Category
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Metal
Ceramic Link Chain Wall Sculpture
Located in Attleboro, MA
Chains echo different emotions in us, some see them as a symbol of imprisonment, and vulnerability and some see as an emotion of inter connectivity and strong bond between the people. The truth is ,chains as we see them in the moment will either resonate the first or the latter symbolism depending on the emotions we feel at the moment.
This eye-catching wall hanging adds a nomadic and mystical feel to any room. Created through a hand-intensive process of linking hand built stoneware rings of different sizes, this wall hanging is a dynamic decoration for an eclectic bedroom...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Linen
$1,655 / item
Vintage Decorative Egyptian Pharaoh Statue on Marble Base, Grand Tour Souvenir
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A beautifully crafted statue of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, I believe it is Ramses the 2nd however I am not completely sure. The statue appears to be made of copper or white metal. ...
Category
1970s Egyptian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Metal
Ceramic Link Chain Wall Sculpture
Located in Attleboro, MA
Chains echo different emotions in us, some see them as a symbol of imprisonment, and vulnerability and some see as an emotion of inter connectivity and strong bond between the people. The truth is ,chains as we see them in the moment will either resonate the first or the latter symbolism depending on the emotions we feel at the moment.
This eye-catching wall hanging adds a nomadic and mystical feel to any room. Created through a hand-intensive process of linking hand built stoneware rings of different sizes, this wall hanging is a dynamic decoration for an eclectic bedroom...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Linen
$2,550 / item
Paul Milet Sevres French Art Deco Stoneware Fox, 1920
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
French Art Deco stoneware fox by Paul MILET, 8, rue Troyon, Sèvres, France, 1920s. Height : 25cm - 9.85 in. , Width : 35cm - 13.8 in., Depth : 13.5cm-5.3in. The condition is excellen...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Samuraï Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture Samuraï all in stoneware, hand-crafted
piece with subtle engraved details and decorated
with enamels.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
$6,520 / item
Pair Antique Chinese Stoneware Shar Pei Puppy Figures with Sancai Glaze Ca. 1860
Located in Katonah, NY
This pair of small Chinese stoneware puppy figures, made circa 1860, combines the natural warmth and charm of the Shar Pei with the soft, flowing beauty of sa...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Scandinavian Blue Glazed Owl Ceramic Relief by Svend Åage Jensen for Søholm
Located in Antwerp, BE
Vintage wall plaque abstract mid century ceramic wall hanging stoneware Blue glazed Owls relief designed by Sven Aage Jensen and manufactured by S...
Category
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$256 Sale Price
20% Off
David Shaner Hanging Landscape Studio Pottery Suspended Totem Sculpture 1990s
Located in Troy, MI
Hanging landscape by Montana ceramic artist David Shaner circa 1990s
Thirteen stoneware spheroid elements with various glazes and incised details
Strung and suspended by steel wire
...
Category
1990s Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Exclusive Danish early 20th century sculpture of large green glazed goblin
Located in Ebberup, DK
Original antique large unique sculpture of goblin made by Danish artist Anders Møller.
Anders Møller resided on Funen and was born in 1890. He was a member of Danish artist group “Germinalen”, a part of the art and ceramic movement in Denmark at that time. The sculpture is estimated to be from the 1930s.
This mythical, grotesque creature has exaggerated features and is possibly influenced by European Gothic or Art Nouveau aesthetics. The expression also has a resemblance to the work of earlier artist such as Niels Hansen Jacobsen...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Art Nouveau Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Greek Tragedy Black Terracotta Mask - France 1950
s
By Vallauris, Jean Marais
Located in New York, NY
One of a kind black terracotta Greek tragedy decorative mask. French art from the 50's. In good vintage condition. Minor dent on the back.
Holes are present in order for the mask...
Category
1950s French Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Terracotta
Betty Davenport Ford Modernist Ceramic Deer Sculpture, California Modern 1950s
By Betty Davenport Ford
Located in Troy, MI
Betty Davenport Ford ceramic deer sculpture
USA circa late 1940's - early 1950's
Collection of Carl Benkert
Stylized deer in an elongated form framed by tree-like elements
Execut...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Red-Toned Wooden Vintage Abstract Animal Sculpture, Swedish Mid Century Handmade
Located in Stockholm, SE
A lovely wooden sculpture designed in Sweden in the midcentury. It is in very good condition except from that one of its legs is repaired. The designer is unknown.
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Sculpture by Carl Johan Bonnesen, Glazed Ceramic Bear, Denmark
By Carl Johan Bonnesen
Located in Kastrup, DK
Carl Johan Bonnesen, 1868–1933
Rare and impressive unique sculpture of two courting bears, crafted in glazed ceramic with a striking copper-rich glaze featuring vivid tonal variation...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
"Pompeii" Memory Jug by Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
"Link" abstract geometric ceramic sculpture by Lauren Klenow, 2024, stoneware
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Link" by Lauren Klenow
2024
Tabletop ceramic sculpture consisting of two interlocking geometric shapes.
Hand built by the artist in using a textured beige/light brown stoneware cl...
Category
2010s Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
$640 Sale Price
20% Off
Set of Four Hand-Signed Stoneware Birds by Bengt Wall, Sweden, 1970s
Located in Karis, Nyland
A set of four handmade stoneware birds by Swedish ceramicist Bengt Wall, crafted in his Trosa studio in the 1970s. Each unique and hand-signed, the figures combine Nordic folk charm ...
Category
1970s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Stoneware, Distressed Vessel NO.2 by Alexandria Roby
Located in Geneve, CH
Stoneware, Distressed Vessel NO.2 by Alexandria Roby
Dimensions: D 17.78 x H 20.32 cm
Materials: Black and White Stoneware Lined with Bronze Glaze
Colors - Sandstone/Ivory or Onyx/Iv...
Category
2010s American Post-Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$1,258 / item
Roman torso in stone
Located in
S-HERTOGENBOSCH, NL
Muscular torso in stoneware, after the classical greek and Roman sculptures.
with a good patina. Signed but not readable (see last picture).
Probably circa 1930.
Category
1930s Italian Classical Roman Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$1,009
Original, Signed Sculpture, a Lizard in a Box
Located in Warrenton, OR
Original, Signed Sculpture, a Lizard in a Box
This endearing sculpture might be quite the conversation piece! It is glazed in a sort of light turquoise (blue-green/greenblue) color ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Other Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
Lisa Larson Signed Mid-Century Gustavsberg Large Lion Swedish Pottery Sculpture
By Gustavsberg
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully designed, beautifully made Mid-Century Modern Scandinavian lion sculpture/figurine by Swedish master potter/ceramicist Lisa Larson (1931-2024) for Gustavsberg, Sweden (...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Ceramic Link Chain and Macramé Wall Sculpture
Located in Attleboro, MA
Chains echo different emotions in us , some see them as a symbol of imprisonment, and vulnerability and some see as an emotion of inter connectivity and strong bond between the peopl...
Category
2010s American Bohemian Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Original, Signed Sculpture, a Frog in a Cup
Located in Warrenton, OR
Original, Signed Sculpture, a Frog in a Cup
A frog in a cup: the gift for someone who has almost everything, and a sense of humor. Signed and dated by the sculptor.
IMPORTANT INFORM...
Category
Late 20th Century American Other Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
Erosion’s Memory III - Hand-Built Ceramic Sculpture in White Chamotte Stoneware
Located in PRADES-LE-LEZ, FR
Erosion’s Memory III is a hand-built ceramic sculpture by French artist Audrey Vo Van, made from white chamotte stoneware. The form, both solid and delicate, evokes a weathered lands...
Category
2010s French Organic Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Stoneware Wall Plaque / Tile, Rörstrand - Carl-Harry Stålhane - Fish
Located in Stockholm, SE
A stoneware wall plaque in shape of a fish designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane at Rörstrand. It is 38.5 cm long (15.4") and 15.5 cm (6.2") tall. It is in excellent condition and marked a...
Category
Late 20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
A Vintage Stoneware Crab, Mid 20th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Vintage Stoneware Crab, Mid 20th Century
Provenance: Private Australian Collection.
Dimensions:
Height: 9cm.
Width: 28cm.
Depth: 20.5cm.
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$412 Sale Price
45% Off
1950s Mid-Century Wall Plaque Adam Dworski Wye Pottery Woman
Located in Hyattsville, MD
A Ceramic Wall Plaque made by Croatian Ceramicist Adam Dworski who set up Wye Pottery Studio in Clyro Wales England in the late 1950s.
Category
1950s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Sculptural Studio Pottery Vase Object by Dieter Crumbiegel, Germany, 1980s
By Dieter Crumbiegel
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Ceramic object
Designer and producer:
Dieter Crumbiegel
Information:
Dieter Crumbiegel (born June 6, 1938 in Essen) is a German artist (painting, ceramics) and university professor.
Since 1961, Crumbiegel has held solo and group exhibitions of ceramic objects in West and East Germany, Belgium, CSFR, France, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Spain, Hungary and Taiwan.
Decade: 1980s
This original vintage Studio Ceramic Object was designed by Dieter Crumbiegel and produced in his own Studio in the 1960s in Heinsberg in Germany. It is made of solid very heavy stoneware pottery and has a very unique light beige main coloration with abstract brown illustration. the bottom is marked with typical Producer signature. a very collectible and very rare item of the Crumbiegel Collection. the object has a very sculptural form and in its size of 18cm in height and 21cm in diameter, it is very impressive.
straightforward and minimalistic design of the 1980s design era. This item is a wonderful addition to every modern home.
Dimensions:
Height 18cm
Diameter 21cm.
Condition:
This item is in a very good vintage condition with patina. slight traces of use.
VITA:
Dieter Crumbiegel graduated from high school in 1957 at the traditional language Burggymnasium in Essen. He then studied painting from 1957 to 1961 at the State University of Fine Arts in Kassel with Fritz Winter and Marie-Louise von Rogister, ceramics with Walter Popp, art theory and art sociology with Stephan Hirzel and Georg Hoeltje, and art history and art education with Ernst Röttger. During the 1958/1959 academic year he received a holiday scholarship from the Max Beckmann Society and spent some time in the Liliamor house with its founder Lilly von Mallinckrodt-Schnitzler in Murnau. In 1959 he also received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation. Crumbiegel completed his studies in 1961 with the first state examination.
After the 2nd state examination in 1964, Crumbiegel worked with Robert Sturm at the educational institute in Fulda as a lecturer for the training of art and craft teachers at general schools with a training focus on the construction of vascular ceramics. In 1971 he took over the class for sculpture and architectural ceramics at the State Technical School for Ceramic Design in Höhr- Grenzhausen. From 1979 to 2001 he was a professor at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld in the design department, studying ceramics/porcelain/glass design. In 1979, Crumbiegel was appointed a member of the Académie Internationale de la Ceramique (AIC) / International Academy of liamorCeramic in Geneva. The German members of the AIC joined together in 1983/1984 to form Group 83 - German Ceramicists,[1] of which he himself became a member in 1986.
Crumbiegel founded the “Krefeld School for Ceramics/Design”[2] as a continuation of the Kassel School for Ceramics run by his teacher Walter Popp, from which artists and designers such as Frank Louis emerged. In 1983 he was appointed supervisor at Helwan University in Giza/Cairo. From 1971 he gave lectures on new trends in ceramic art at the Hetjens Museum in Düsseldorf.
Between 1969 and 1978 he was a member of various award juries, such as the jury for the Richard...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Stoneware sculpture by Vicke Lindstrand for Upsala-Ekeby, Sweden, 1950s
Located in Eskilstuna, SE
Sculpture model 81 designed by Vicke Lindstrand for Upsala-Ekeby in Sweden in 1947-48. A striking, large-scale ceramic figure of a seated woman with a dark body and vividly glazed pa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Three Sculptural Objects
Cubism
, Man Ray, Raw White Ceramic
By Manolo Eirin
Located in Carballo, ES
Geometry set of 3 pieces made of ceramic, with high quality stoneware in the Galician town of Buño, known throughout the world for its quality in the pottery technique. The shapes in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Terracotta
Sculpture Ceramic Fish - Gunnar Nylund - Rörstrand
Located in Stockholm, SE
A lovely fish sculpture in ceramic designed by Gunnar Nylund at Rörstrand. It is 16.5 cm (6.6") high. It is in excellent condition except from some minor chips on the fish mouth.
G...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$256 Sale Price
20% Off
Klas-Göran Klaesson Sheep Sculpture in Stoneware, Sweden 1991
Located in Utrecht, NL
Standing not only as a decorative object but also as an evocation of Scandinavian folk traditions and the artist’s deep respect for nature and craft, this piece is sure to be a lovel...
Category
1990s Swedish Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Hyllested Danish Mid-Century Art Pottery Eskimo Figure
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A charming and uncommon Danish mid-century art pottery eskimo figure made by Hyllested Keramik and dating from around 1960. This highly collectable figure is referenced by some as re...
Category
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Danish Jugend Art Nouveau 1900s fine art ceramic sculpture w. mythical creatures
Located in Ebberup, DK
A striking and highly decorative ceramic sculptural lidded urn estimated to be from the 1900s, possibly originating from the renowned Søholm ceramic factory during its Skønvirke peri...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Art Nouveau Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Esther Shimazu Signed Japanese Hawaiian American Female Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Esther Shimazu's bald female sculpture. She uses hand-built techniques to construct clay figures using colored slips, oxides when firing, then hand sands them and rubs in pigments to...
Category
20th Century Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Danish Modern Glazed Stoneware Koi Fish by Aage Würtz, 1970s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
In Japanese culture the Koi fish symbolizes courage, perseverance, bravery and love simultaneously. This emblematic stoneware sculpture however was made in Denmark by Aage Würtz circ...
Category
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$327 Sale Price
20% Off
Fragment of the Earth — Hand-Built Ceramic Sculpture in Black Stoneware
Located in PRADES-LE-LEZ, FR
Fragment of the Earth is a hand-built ceramic sculpture by French artist Audrey Vo Van, shaped in black chamotte stoneware. The piece combines smooth, rounded contours with a deeply ...
Category
2010s French Organic Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Fat Lava Ceramic Vase "Robot" by Heinz Siery Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany, 1960s
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Ceramic pottery vase
Origin:
Germany
Model:
ROBOT
Designer:
Heinz Siery
Producer:
Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany
Decade:
1960s
Th...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Modern Abstract Ceramic Sculpture by Andree
Michel Hirlet, France
Located in London, GB
Sculpture 'Borne' by Andrée & Michel Hirlet
2000Material: Glazed stoneware
Dimensions: H 66 x 55 x 15 cm
Year: 2010
Type: Unique
Working outside of any wider artistic community or ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Knud Kyhn Royal Copenhagen, Designed 1920
s Sung Glaze Stoneware Mammoth #20207
By Knud Kyhn
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
Knud Kyhn designed this sung glazed stoneware Mammoth in the 1920's for Royal Copenhagen, Denmark.
This item was purchased 45 years ago at Georg Jensen in New York and is in 'as new...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$1,755 Sale Price
40% Off
Ceramic Link Chain Wall Sculpture
Located in Attleboro, MA
The Hamsa hand or hand of Fatima is known across many cultures to protect its wearer and ward off bad energy. It is also a symbol of patience and claire voyance. The Artist often use...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
$275 / item
Doulton Lambeth Dutch Woman Figure by Leslie Harradine
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A scarce large Doulton Lambeth early Art Deco figure of a Dutch Woman designed by renowned designer and modeler Leslie A Harradine and dating from around 1914. The figure modeled in ...
Category
1910s British Art Nouveau Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Gertrud Kudielka Danish JL Hjorth Large White Glazed Pottery Elephant
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very impressive and large Danish Art Deco L Hjorth (Bornholm) art pottery elephant decorated in white glazes by Gertrud Kudielka (1896-1984) and dat...
Category
1930s European Art Deco Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Royal Copenhagen Large Stoneware Falcon by Knud Kyhn, Danish, 1950s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Large glazed stoneware Falcon designed by the Danish ceramist Knud Kyhn (KK) all the way back in 1940-50. Hugely inspired by the sung glazes applied in Axel Salto's and Bode Willumse...
Category
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$1,116 Sale Price
20% Off
Jean Juhlin (Am. B. 1931) Stoneware Signed Sculpture 1985
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Stoneware sculpture depicting a reclining Indian female figure. The barefoot woman attired in a shawl with an intricate pierced design. The female is in reclining position with her a...
Category
20th Century American Rustic Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Moulin-des-Loups, Orchies, French Art Deco Stoneware Gull, 1920
By Orchies
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
French Art Deco ceramic seagull statue by Moulin-des-Loups (Orchies), France, 1920s. Seagull with a fish in its beak. Height : 8.7"(22cm), Width : 9.1"(23cm), Depth : 4.3"(11cm). Mou...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Ceramic Decorative Sculpture
Bloom
by Anne Breton, France.
Located in London, GB
'Bloom' Sculpture by Anne Breton
Material: Stoneware, pigmented slip
Dimensions: H 51 x Ø 21 cm
Year: 2024
Unique piece, made in Lille (France).
Anne Breton is a beligium ceramicis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Post-Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Polar Bear Sculpture by Oscar Hartung for Ego Stengods 1970
By Ego Stengods
Located in Benalmadena, ES
Fantastic Polar Bear made of stoneware designed by Oscar Hartung for Ego Stengods in the 70s.
Category
1970s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$142 Sale Price
20% Off
Hand-Built Ceramic Sculpture in Beige Stoneware - Erosion’s Memory I
Located in PRADES-LE-LEZ, FR
Erosion’s Memory I is a hand-built ceramic sculpture by French artist Audrey Vo Van, shaped from natural chamotte stoneware. Its form, both grounded and ascendant, evokes a geologica...
Category
2010s French Organic Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Antique Italian Neoclassical Stoneware Statue of Bacchus
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
An antique Italian Neoclassical buff stoneware statue of Resting Satyr, after the antique.
Dating circa 1880, this French sculpture is of a small scale in a desirable neutral tone...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
A Vintage Stoneware Crab, Mid 20th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Vintage Stoneware Crab, Mid 20th Century
Provenance: Private Australian Collection.
Dimensions:
Height: 9cm.
Width: 28.3cm.
Depth: 22cm.
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$412 Sale Price
45% Off
Stoneware sculpture, Jean-Paul Brunet. France 1980
Located in L’ISLE-SUR-LA-SORGUE, FR
Imposing stoneware sculpture,
Kiln-fired in a wood oven.
Unique piece, signed, in perfect condition.
Artist : Jean-Paul Brunet (1942-1996)
Atelier Palègre
France
Category
1980s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Wrought Iron
Original and Unique Ceramic Fountain by Otto Prutscher and Michael Powolny, 1914
Located in Vienna, AT
Executed by Michael Powolny for the Wienerberger Keramikwerkstätten, ceramic and stoneware, ochre colored, body holding a dish in her outstretched arms standing above a three-tired C...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Jugendstil Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Unique Large Stoneware Sculpture Woman
s Hand by Finn Lynggaard, Denmark, 1970s
Located in Odense, DK
An amazing unique stoneware sculpture modelled in the shape of a woman's hand with blue glazed nails. Made by Danish artist Finn Lynggaard at his own studio in the 1970s. Stamped mon...
Category
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Stoneware Sculpture on Steel Base with Glaze in Grey-White-Black, signed ZAULI
By Carlo Zauli
Located in Salzburg, AT
Abstract, turned stoneware sculpture on a steel base with iridescent glaze in grey-white-black.
Lively object with different structures and glazes, signed Zauli
Carlo Zauli was b...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Steel
A Rare Stoneware Sculpture by Elisabeth Joulia La Borne France 1960
s
Located in HYÈRES, FR
A Rare Stoneware Sculpture by Elisabeth Joulia La Borne France 1960's
Elisabeth Joulia's sculptures are rare in this size.
Very pretty shapes that may remind you of a bird.
Master...
Category
1960s European Vintage Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Walter Bosse Huge Pottery Ceramic Horse Sculpture, Austria, 1950s
By Walter Bosse
Located in Vienna, AT
A lovely and huge handmade figurine / statue displaying a horse dated from 1947 to 1951. Designed by Walter Bosse, made of ceramic / terracotta in Kufst...
Category
Mid-20th Century Austrian Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware, Terracotta
Salt-Glazed Solid Agateware Cat with Candle Holder, Staffordshire, Mid-18th C.
Located in Katonah, NY
Staffordshire, England, circa 1745 – 1760
This charming and unusual figure depicts a seated cat, its body marbled in tones of buff, grey, and warm brown, the patterns flowing like fur beneath a translucent salt glaze.
From the crown of its head rises a small candleholder—an enchanting, functional variation that transforms the cat into a decorative light for the Georgian home.
The salt-glazed surface has a gentle satin sheen, enlivened by a cobalt wash brushed across the ears and shoulders, a subtle touch of colour that draws the eye. The figure is compact and beautifully balanced, exuding both humor and grace: a work of wit and craftsmanship meant to charm and amuse as much as to illuminate.
As a pair, this cat with candleholder and its companion cat carrying a mouse form a dialogue of light and life—one playful, one practical—representing the Staffordshire potters’ genius for turning everyday subjects into artful curiosities.
Attribution and Significance
Within the history of English ceramics, agateware animals represent the marriage of experimentation and domestic charm.
They were objects of conversation—proof of a potter’s technical mastery and a household’s refinement.
This cat, with its delicate candleholder, captures that artistic playfulness and innovation.
The glaze’s clarity, the elegant pose, and the subtle marbling make it not only an artifact of mid-18th-century Staffordshire but also a small masterpiece of whimsy and craft.
Scholarly Analysis and Authentication
The figure is made from laminated clays of contrasting colors, known as laid agate, a technique perfected in Staffordshire workshops during the 1740s and 1750s.
Strata of buff, pale grey, and iron-bearing brown clay were rolled together, pressed into a two-part mold, and luted along the spine before firing.
The cat’s body thus shows true through-body marbling: the veining continues through the thickness of the clay, not merely applied on the surface.
The candle socket, made from a single buff clay rather than agate, was luted to the head before glazing.
This practical choice prevented distortion during firing and was a typical workshop economy seen in other mid-18th-century functional animal forms.
The piece was salt-glazed in a wood- or coal-fired kiln into which common salt was introduced near peak temperature.
Sodium vapor combined with the silica of the clay to form a thin, glassy coating.
Here, the glaze is smooth and even, suggesting the cat was fired within a protective sagger.
The underside of the figure is open, revealing the pressed-clay interior.
Two or three minute stilt contacts are visible on the bottom ledge, confirming that the figure rested on kiln props during firing rather than being supported from beneath a closed base.
The cobalt wash was brushed under the glaze before firing.
It fuses permanently into the surface, creating soft haloes of blue wholly consistent with decoration on salt-glazed figures from the Whieldon circle circa 1750-1760.
Later 19th-century reproductions employ overpainted enamels that sit atop the glaze.
The open underside, authentic stratified body, integrated socket, and original cobalt staining collectively identify this as a genuine product of Staffordshire’s mid-18th-century agateware tradition, most plausibly from the orbit of Thomas Whieldon at Fenton Vivian or a closely related potter.
The measured height, modelling, and marbling correspond closely to examples in the Burnap Collection (nos.. 362–363, Nelson-Atkins Museum) and Sotheby’s (2015) — “A Staffordshire agateware cat-form candlestick, circa 1755.
Provenance / Condition:
Current Condition: Excellent, with one ear repaired at the tip and restoration at the top of the candleholder; the glaze remains bright and continuous across the body and socket.
References:
Burnap Collection, English Pottery 1675–1825, nos. 362–363.
Sotheby’s (2015) — “A Staffordshire agateware cat-form candlestick, circa 1755.
Christie’s, London 2010, lot 82.
1stDibs “Staffordshire Agateware Pottery Saltglaze Figure of a Cat,” item ref LU95812370442 Price: $4,482.16
Chipstone Foundation, Marbled Agateware: Techniques and Identification, 2005.
Henry Sandon, Staffordshire Pottery, 1970, pp. 52–54.
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