Mid-Century Modern Vases
MID-CENTURY MODERN STYLE
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged during the mid-20th century
- Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
- A heyday of innovation in postwar America
- Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
- A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
- Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
- Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
- Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
- Promotion of functionality
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
- Charles and Ray Eames
- Eero Saarinen
- Milo Baughman
- Florence Knoll
- Harry Bertoia
- Isamu Noguchi
- George Nelson
- Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
- Eames lounge chair
- Nelson daybed
- Florence Knoll sofa
- Egg chair
- Womb chair
- Noguchi coffee table
- Barcelona chair
VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.
Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.
Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.
Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
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Style: Mid-Century Modern
outstanding fontana arte vase by max ingrand
Located in Munich, DE
very rare max ingrand vase / centerpiece for fontana arte. in wonderful and extremely nice patinated condition.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Crystal, Brass
Sculptural Mid Century Studio Pottery Vase 1960s
Located in Meer, VAN
Sculptural Mid Century Studio Pottery Vase, 1960s
This is a lovely and very beautiful mid century studio pottery vase with a colorful glaze and a very distinct shape. Most probably ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Pottery
Mandruzzato Dark Green into Clear Murano Glass Sommerso Vase, Mid Century Modern
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Stunning Venetian Murano Mid-Century Modern Mandruzzato Vase – Italy, 1960s
An exceptional example of Italian Mid-Century Modern artistry, this Mandruzzato Murano glass vase...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Modernist Vase Sculpture Peter Müller for Sgrafo Modern, Germany, 1970
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Op art element vase with abstract floral illustrations
Origin:
Germany
Produder:
Sgrafo Modern
Design:
Peter Müler
Material:
Pottery stoneware
Age:
1970s
Original 1970s sculptural op art object designed by Peter Müller...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Three Ring Ikebana Vase Made by Toyo, Japan, circa 1960s
By Toyo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Three ring ikebana vase made by Toyo, Japan, circa 1960s.
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Mid-Century Italian Neoclassical Yellow Frosted Pressed Glass Vase, 1950s
Located in Valencia, VC
Mid-Century Italian Neoclassical Yellow Frosted Pressed Glass Vase, 1950s
A very beautiful Italian pressed glass vase from the 1950s.
It features a pale yellow stained interior and ...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass
$418 Sale Price
50% Off
Mid-Century Modernist Round Speckled Earth Tone Ceramic Vase w/ Tapered Neck
Located in New York, NY
This beautifully formed and materially sensitive Mid-Century Modernist Round Speckled Earth Tone Ceramic Vase W/ Tapered Neck originates from the United States, Circa 1960. Features ...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Mid-Century Ceramic Vase, Ca.1960
Located in Meulebeke, BE
Black ceramic oval vase made around 1960.
Category
1960s Belgian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Italian Murano Millefiori Vase
Located in New York, NY
A very beautiful and substantial Italian Murano art glass vase with millefiori design, circa mid-20th century, Italy. Vase is clear transparent Murano art glass with a colorful mille...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Henri Cazaux (1923-2011), Vallauris, Sgraffito Ceramic Vase, 1950-1970
By Vallauris
Located in Bilzen, BE
Henri Cazaux was a member of the famous Cazaux pottery family from Ciboure (Basque Country), who later worked in Vallauris, particularly from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Henri Cazaux was...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Murano sommerso glass faceted vase by Flavio Poli , 1970s
By Flavio Poli
Located in Delft, NL
Murano sommerso glass faceted vase by Flavio Poli , 1970s
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass
Gilbert Valentin Zoomorphic Vase in Glazed Earthenware, Vallauris, 1950
s
Located in Santa Gertrudis, Baleares
Gilbert Valentin (1928-2000) Zoomorphic vase in glazed earthenware, Vallauris, 1950's.
Gilbert Valentin was born in Nancy.
It was in 1946 in Dieulefi...
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Earthenware
loan Nemtoi (Romanian, born 1964) Hand Blown Art Glass Vase and Display Case
By Ioan Nemtoi
Located in Chicago, IL
Ioan Nemtoi, (Romanian b. 1964) art glass vase with custom, square glass case. A beautiful and breathtaking, hand-blown, thick walled vase in red, blue, yellow, orange, peach, purple...
Category
1990s Romanian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Metal
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Set of Three Vases by Rudi Stahl, Germany, 1970s
By Rudi Stahl
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Set of three ceramic vases designed by Rudi Sthal, Germany 1970. The lower parts show a rough finish while the top parts are glazed in different tones of deep blue, burnt yellow and ...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
$690 Sale Price / set
50% Off
INDUSTRIA VETRARIA VALDARNESE - Large Cased Glass Vase - Italy - Circa 1960
s
Located in Chatham, ON
INDUSTRIA VETRARIA VALDARNESE (IVV) - Large vintage cased art glass vase - featuring a striking combination of white mouth blown glass to the i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass, Art Glass
Fine Mid Century Turned Ceramic Vase
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A fine turned Mid Century ceramic vase with a particularly exceptional form and execution. With fine Earth tone colors, typical of the Mid Century period, the Vase has a soft and na...
Category
1960s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Mid-Century Modern Large Glass Vase GullaSkruf Sweden, 1950s
Located in Hillringsberg, SE
This wonderful large vase made in Sweden at GullaSkruf was designed by Kjell Blomberg in the 1950s.
It has a lovely color and as many of the designers from Sweden the light has a ce...
Category
1950s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass
Signed Italian Murano Art Glass Vase, Mid-Century Modern
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Vintage Murano Italian art glass vase. This charming blue and purple vase has been hand blown with a colorful stripped pattern. This piece can be decorative as well as functional hol...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass, Art Glass
$314 Sale Price
63% Off
Flavio Poli Seguso Vetri d’Arte, Bean-Shaped Submerged Glass Vase, Murano 1950s
Located in BARCELONA, ES
This elegant bean-shaped vase, designed by Flavio Poli (1900–1984) for Seguso Vetri d’Arte around 1950, exemplifies the refined artistry of Murano glassmaking in the mid-20th century...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
1950s Carl-Harry Stålhane Blue, Burgundy Stoneware Vase, Rörstrand
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Slender cylinder shaped stoneware vase with glossy glaze in cobalt blue, deep purple and burgundy red over linear relief patterns. Acclaimed artist Carl-Harry Stålhane (1920-1990) de...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Vintage Mdina Pink Mottled Glass Spill Vase, Malta, 1980s
By Mdina
Located in Glasgow, GB
A hand-blown pink glass spill vase by Mdina, made in Malta during the early 1980s. Compact in scale, it features a slender tubular body with a wide flared lip—simple in form, yet exp...
Category
1970s Maltese Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Vintage L.E. Smith Ruby Red
Amberina Ribbed Swung Vase 25.25"
Located in Atlanta, GA
Measuring 25.25" h x 7" w
This striking mid-century swung vase was produced by **L.E. Smith Glass Company**, a renowned American glass manufacturer known for its vibrant art glass and innovative designs. Crafted using the **swung glass...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Art Vannes Crystal wing vase. circa 1970 France
By Art Vannes
Located in Mobile, AL
Cristalleries de Vannes-le-Châtel, France gull wing abstract sculptural vase. Acid etched Art Vannes France Mark. This is a quintessential 1970's elegant design ready for your home...
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass
$260 Sale Price
20% Off
Helena Tynell blown glass ”Aurinkopullo” Sun Vase for Riihimäen Lasi. 1960s-70s
Located in Knivsta, SE
Helena Tynell (1916-2016) classic blown glass ”Aurinkopullo” meaning Sun Bottle for Riihimäen Lasi Oy in Finland. The vases was produced from 1964 until 1974.
Beautiful color and in...
Category
1960s Finnish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Blown Glass
Royal Copenaghen Midcentury Nils Thorsson Bordeaux Ceramic Vase, Denmark 1950s
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Scandinavian midcentury modern design spherical ceramic vase, Aluminia Marselis serie with matte bordeaux enamel designed by Nils Thorsson for Royal Copenhagen, Denmark circa 1950s.
...
Category
1950s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Blue Mountain Pottery Studio Pottery Jug Canada 1960s
Located in Meer, VAN
Blue Mountain Pottery Studio Pottery Jug, Canada, 1960s.
Beautiful sleek and slender jug by the famous Canadian studio pottery workshop BMP or B...
Category
Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Pottery
Mid-Century Ceramic Vase by Romacrea, Rome, Italy, 1960s
Located in Camblanes et Meynac, FR
Mid-Century Italian Ceramic Vase by Romacrea, 1960s
This striking ceramic vase was crafted in the 1960s by Romacrea, a renowned ceramics manufacturer based in Rome. Showcasing the s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Sculptural Vase in Solid Copper, France, 1960s
Located in Den Haag, NL
Sculptural vase in solid copper, France, 1960s.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Copper
Marcello Fantoni Signed Pottery Vase with Abstract Design Mid Century Modern
Located in Atlanta, GA
Unique Pottery Vase, by Marcello Fantoni, Italy, and retailed by Raymor, United States, hand signed underneath, circa 1960s. Beautiful colors with a saffron yellow field with abstrac...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Pitcher By Fratelli Fanciullacci Italy
Located in Bochum, NRW
Beautiful pottery jug/handled vase, Italy late 1950s-1960s. Signed.
A stunning form and décor, body shaped as a jug, glossy white spray-glaze has a mottled texture, decorated using ...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Lalique, "Narcissus" Vase, France 1980s
By Lalique
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb Narcissus vase by the Lalique Maison, France 1980s.
Excellent condition, sold with a Lalique box.
Dimensions in cm ( H x D ) : 26.5 x 20.3
Secure shipping.
Category
1980s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Crystal
European etched handblown glass vase
Located in London, GB
A beautiful handblown bubble glass vase with etched detail featuring a galleon ship.
Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Blown Glass
Murano Vase in Red and Uranium Sommerso Glass by Galliano Ferro, Italy, 1950s
Located in Glasgow, GB
An elegant example of mid-century Murano glass, this tall bud vase by Galliano Ferro demonstrates the refined application of the sommerso technique, where one layer of glass is delic...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass, Uranium Glass
$165 Sale Price
70% Off
Italian Ceramic Bud Vase in Faux Bois Glaze by Fratelli Fanciullacci c.1960s
Located in Glasgow, GB
1960s Italian Ceramic Bud Vase by Fratelli Fanciullacci
This charming ceramic bud vase by Fratelli Fanciullacci exemplifies the playful creativity of mid-century Italian ceramics. R...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
$88 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Glass Vase by Pavel Pánek, Bohemia, 1970
s.
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Czechoslovakia
Made of Glass
Good Original Condition
Category
1970s Czech Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass
Carl Auböck Model #7231 Brass Vase
Located in Glendale, CA
Carl Auböck model #7231 brass vase. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural Viennese vase is executed in polished and darkly pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Brass
$772 / item
Alfredo Barbini Vibrant Large Murano Aquarium Vase with fish circa 1950’s
Located in Ann Arbor, MI
Alfredo Barbini Vibrant Large Murano Aquarium Vase with fish circa 1950’s
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Blown Glass
$4,500 Sale Price
25% Off
Sven Palmqvist, Sommerso Vase, Glass, Sweden, 1950s
Located in High Point, NC
A blue-coloured blown glass Sommerso vase designed by Sven Palmqvist and produced by Orrefors, Sweden, 1950s.
Category
1950s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Blown Glass
German Mid-Century Ceramic Vase, 1960s
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
German Mid-century ceramic vase, Germany, 1960s. Measures: Height: 45cm - 17.7 in., Diameter : 22cm - 8.7 in. Marked under the base (see photo).
Category
1960s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Undulating Op Art W.German Ceramic Flower Vase Vintage Mid-Century Psychedelic
Located in Hyattsville, MD
1970s Scheurich W.German Pottery. One of their most popular designs. No chip, no cracks.
Category
1970s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Green Blown Scavo Glass Tulip Vase attr. to Cenedese, Italy
By Cenedese
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1960s.
This wonderful tulip vase was most likely produced by Cenedese and is made in green hand-blown scavo glass.
This is a vintage piece, therefore it might show sl...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Blown Glass
Opaline glass vase by Carlo Moretti, Italy, 1960
Located in Bastia Umbra, IT
Opaline glass vase by Carlo Moretti, Italy, 1960.
Elegant Murano glass vase by Carlo Moretti made in Italy in the 1970s in white, orange and black opaline.
The price of shipping is...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass, Opaline Glass
Large Vintage Flower Vase, Italian, Murano Art Glass, Decorative Planter, C.1970
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a large vintage flower vase. An Italian, Murano art glass decorative planter, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1970.
Riotous colour across a distinctive, rebellious fo...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Mid-Century Cobolt Blue Sommerso Vase by Flavio Poli
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A Venician made Sommerso faceted vase in cobolt blue color by the Murano based artist Flavio Poli. This piece of art is from around 1960 for "Seguso Vetri ...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Carl Auböck Model #3975 Brass Vase
Located in Glendale, CA
Carl Auböck model #3975 brass vase. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural Viennese vase is executed in polished and darkly pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Brass
$682 / item
Green Italian Vase, Sommerso Murano Glass Flavio Poli for ALESSANDRO MANDRUZZATO
By Flavio Poli
Located in Pasadena, CA
This Murano Vase is crafted in the Sommerso style, developed by designer Flavio Poli, known for his innovative approach to glass design. The vase features a faceted form in rich gree...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Mid-Century Vintage California Pottery Aqua and Gold Speckled with Gold Rim Bowl
By Doyle Lane
Located in San Diego, CA
Mid-Century ceramic California Pottery bowl in vibrant aqua and gold-speckled throughout with gold trim and three leaves on the base of the bowl. This MCM vintage California original art pottery bowl is marked on the bottom with "Calif Orig USA 801". Its unique shape measures approximately 3"H x 11.25"L and 10"W. It is in excellent vintage condition with no chips or cracks. a very well executed piece from the 1970s. #9026
These bowls were popular during the Mid-Century Modern era and were produced by various California-based potteries, often marked with "Made in California" or "USA" and a model number. They are characterized by their realistic or stylized leaf shapes and often feature gilded accents, like the gold leaf details on this dish.
While decorative, they were typically used as serving bowls for various items or simply as decorative accent pieces. Vintage California Pottery...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Large Arte Murano ICET Purple Glass Vase
Located in Fairfield, CA
A beautiful large art glass vase by Arte Murano ICET, made in Venezuela. Lovely pale purple color with a white interior. Arte Murano ICET is a glass s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Venezuelan Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Ed Moulthrop Large Bowl in Figured Sweetgum Wood
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A large and impressive turned centerpiece bowl by Edward Moulthrop. Made of figured sweetgum wood and signed on the bottom. It's big at 14" diameter and 9.5" in height.
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Wood
Murano glass vase with Murrine Romane. Floral desing, Ercole Barovier Style
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Stile Barovier e Toso, anni 80, senza firma, stacco del puntello.
Murano glass potiche shaped vase with squared murrine in aquamarine, amethyst and cobalt blue. The Murrine mosaic i...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murrine, Murano Glass, Blown Glass, Art Glass
A French 1950s Black Glazed “Boule” Vase
Located in SOTTEVILLE-LÈS-ROUEN, FR
A sculptural mid-century French ceramic vase in a perfect “boule” form, featuring a deep, glossy black glaze with subtle variations.
Exemplifying the sleek, organic elegance of 195...
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Large 38cm Pottery Fat Lava "supercolor" Floor Vase Made by Scheurich, 1970s
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Fat lava art vase extra large version
Model: 553-38
Producer:
Scheurich, Germany
Decade:
1970s
Description:
This original vintage vase was produced in the 1970s...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Bjorn Wiinblad Rosenthal Vase
Located in Charleston, SC
Vintage and rare - Vintage Rosenthal Wiinblad Sheherazade Concertina Oriental Night Music Arund Vase - Rosenthal Studio Line, small vase or home decor. Designed by Bjorn Wiinlad in G...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
Carl Erickson Sommerso Vase, American Art Studio Glass 1940s-1950s
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Sculptural Mid Century Modern teal and clear glass decorative vase was created by Carl Erickson for Erickson Glass Works. The vase has Erickson's typical heavy encased glass design, with the teal glass gather encased in clear glass in sommerso technique and the pronounced base done in clear glass with controlled bubbles. The pontil is ground.
The vase is in good vintage condition with some age-appropriate signs of wear on the bottom. It is unsigned, as vast majority of Ericson piece were, and is missing its sticker, but can be clearly identified by multiple printed and online catalogues and other resources.
Carl Erickson (1899-1966) worked at Pairpoint Manufacturing Company, joining his father as an apprentice and spending the next 20 years developing a high level of craftsmanship, including precision use of controlled bubbles, a technique often associated with Pairpoint, that was widely used by Erickson in his own glass designs. In the early 1930s he was employed by Libbey Glass and from 1937 - by the Blenko Glass Company. After leaving Blenko, Carl founded his own art glass studio in Bremen, Ohio in 1943. Erickson glass was hand blown, so no two pieces could be identical.
Erickson made reproductions for a number of museums, including the Smithsonian Institution of Washington, D.C., Old Sturbridge Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corning Museum of Glass, and the Ohio State Historical Society Museum. Many of his glass creations have been selected for display at several distinguished museums, and in 1953 a traveling...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Blown Glass, Glass, Art Glass, Sommerso
1980s Tall White Porcelain Soft Floral Collar Vase, Arzberg
By Arzberg
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Tall and slender bone white sculptural porcelain vase. Smooth clean cylinder shape with soft asymmetrical organic floral collar. Stamped under base.
Beautiful vintage condition.
Arzb...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Bitossi for Rosenthal Netter Vase, Ceramic, Blue, Red, White, Onion
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi for Rosenthal netter vase, ceramic, blue, red, and white, onion. Medium scale chunky cylinder vase decorated with a wavy abstract onion pattern.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
$1,125 Sale Price
50% Off
Unique Murano Glass Vase Stellato in the style Pollio Perelda for Fratelli Toso
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Splendid murano mosaic vase with a perfect color combination and complex mosaic technique.
The stellato finish is made by rolling canes of various color over a small blob of incandescent glass. The design is attained by using the glass scissors at the end and making flat discs with a star design. All these are then heated on a flat surface, in the old time was a stone so this technique still carries that name, lavorazione a piera.
It's heated so that it becomes an unique mosaic rectangular piece. It's then rolled with a glass disc that has the exact perimeter of the rectangular side. This makes the name that this technique is internationally known, Roll-up technique. The difficulty is to close into a cylinder the two other sides of the rectangle. After that the cylinder is closed on the opposite end, glowed to ge to the size, changing the working point with the punty technique (a puntello) and handopening to get the final shape.
An incredible sequence of glassmaking technique to get a special design.
The result is an intricate design of stars in an infinitive patchwork of color matching.
This is commonly known as Stellato vase, which was enhanced and studied by Pollio Perelda...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass, Murano Glass, Art Glass
$2,680 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid-Century Turquoise Ceramic Vase by Alexandre de Wemmel, Belgium, 1950s
Located in Glasgow, GB
Handmade in Belgium in the mid-1950s, this mid-century studio pottery vase by Alexandre de Wemmel is a striking example of post-war European cerami...
Category
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Murano Sommerso Glass Vase by Flavio Poli for Alessandro Mandruzzato, Italy 70s
Located in Lucija, SI
Nice Mid-Century Murano Sommerso Glass Vases Designed by Flavio Poli for Alessandro Mandruzzato in Italy in the 70s
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Mangiarotti Marbles vase by Angelo Mangiarotti, 1968
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Mangiarotti Marbles vase by Angelo Mangiarotti, 1968
Designed in 1968 by Italian architect, sculptor, and designer Angelo Mangiarotti, the Marble collection reimagines bowls and vase...
Category
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Marble
$771 Sale Price / item
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