American Ceramics

Clyde Burt ceramic charger in glazed stoneware with incised image. Signature to underside: [CB]. American, c. 1965

Majolica lotus flower and lily pad centerpiece footed compote stand made in the United States attributed to Griffin, Smith & Hill in the late 19th / early 20th century.

Mid 20th century Georges Briard snack sets, service for 8. In the Fancy Free hot air balloon pattern - each plate has an image of a hot air balloon on a whit...

A large ceramic vessel by Claude Conover (American 1907-1994) titled "Chuc". Signed on underside.

This captivating ceramic art tile showcases a bold, textural sunburst motif rendered in intricate high-relief studio pottery. A superb example of Mid-Century decorative arts, the des...

Beautifully enrobed in a pale, ivory-toned glaze, this rare, high style Art Deco trivet depicts a fashionable female figure in profile, her hair curled in repeating waves like the lapping water of an seaside beach. The woman is surrounded by a border adorned with flowers and leaves bound together with ribbon. The artist was Thelma Frazier, one of a spectacular group of artists gathered together by Cowan Pottery in the 1920s, many of whom -- such as Waylande Gregory and Victor Schreckengost...

Tim Keenan Ceramic vase.

Tim Keenan Ceramic vase, 2022.

From Thom Lussier's Oxidized Copper Collection - a series of ceramic vessels that stand out for their brilliant palette and rich textures. This bowl ...

Tim Keenan Ceramic vase, 2022.

Nice piece of the well known artist David Gilhooly creator of the Funk movement, This is a Burrito frog title work.

Tim Keenan ceramic vase, 2022.

Tim Keenan wall mounted ceramic charger, 2021.

A rustic stoneware bowl on a pedestal. Rich oxblood glaze with hand-drawn lines complementing its simple organic form. The base as little cutouts that lighten the overall structure. ...

A large saucer form vase with deep incising. Blackware pottery signed and dated on underside. By Jeff Roller, 06, 92.

This extremely rare tray by Pat and Covey Stewart depicts a knight on horseback, varying from the more familiar "Bim Bashi" theme showing an exotic man in turban...

Bloom by Elnaz Rafati (Sculpture 6) Dimensions: D 14 x W 24.2 x H 40.7 cm. Materials: Clay. I am an Iranian architect and artist living in NYC. After receiving my architectural ...

4 pc. assemblage sculpture #4 by David Haskell. Ceramic sculpture with blue glazes. Signed on underside.    

This amazing textural snakeskin patterned ceramic bowl is vintage and has colorations and hues of grays to charcoal grays to white outlines. It looks like glass. The biomorphic shape...

Postmodern ceramic vase in a pastel palette with black interior, circa 1980s. Intriguing form / shape with geometric and linear decoration. Signed "R" to the underside.

Studio made charger in gunmetal and gold glaze with graphic design by Gary McCloy for Steve Chase, American 1980's (Signed with original “Steve Chase Assoc.” label on bottom)     

Large-scale sculpture by Rosanne Sniderman. High-fired earthenware sculpture with matte glaze in sand tones. Artist signed on underside.

Who is ready for a mid-century modern tea party? This vintage set designed by Paul McCobb for Jackson China Ceramic Sugar Bowl, Milk Pitcher, and Bowl in rare vivid blue will make yo...

Tim Keenan ceramic bowl, 2021.

Tim Keenan ceramic vase, 2022.

1970s "botanical" stoneware vase representative of a planter with a brown mottled surface with pops of green, blue, white and yellow. Interesting textural elements present with appl...

Tim Keenan ceramic bowl, 2021.

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Scholar rock cup sculpture was assembled in 2018. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with red and green glaze, raku rust pati...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch Ceramic Crucible Sculpture #1 was assembled in 2011. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, black glaze, low fired slips and raku ...

This piece was directly acquired from the home studio of Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman in Culver City, California. The hand thrown ceramic weed pot is one of a kind. It is in pristine c...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's scholar rock cup sculpture was assembled in 2011. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with black glaze, raku rust patina, gree...

Large Vintage Brown Round Ceramic California Studio Cigar Ashtray Catchall Large vintage 1960s brown round ceramic cigar ashtray. Vintage Pottery Craft Ashtray Tobacciana Collectible Drip Pottery dish. Vintage Pottery Craft Ashtray Catchall Decorative Bowl. Handcrafted ceramic ashtray, this beautiful pottery ashtray catchall has a star design center with sides of stoneware, great design and colors in dark brown, beige and caramel drip. Stamped underneath: Pottery craft 401. Vintage stoneware Mid...

Stoneware slab / decorative plate with of an attractive palette of earth tones with pops of pink for contrast and a mottled decorative border. Signed "Pollack '73.".

Catherine McClung for Lenox. "Winter greetings everyday". Large serving dish in glazed stoneware decorated with mistletoe and birds. Approx. 2000. M...

Set of 10 cups & saucers "Duke of Gloucester" pattern, by Mottahedeh, late 20th century. Made for Colonial Williamsburg's special Reserve Collection, copyright 1992. Hand painted & g...

This piece was directly acquired from the home studio of Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman in Culver City, California. The hand thrown ceramic dish entitled "Snowflake" is one of a kind. It...

Catherine McClung for Lenox. "Winter greetings". Six oblong dishes in glazed stoneware decorated with mistletoe, pine cones and birds. Approx. 2000....

Tim Keenan wall mounted ceramic charger. 2021.

Monumental pair of abstract ceramic sculptures by James Kouretas. One measures 19" wide, 14" deep and 21" high. The smaller one measures 19" wide, 13" ...

Tim Keenan ceramic bowl, 2021.

Impressive stoneware sculpture in matte sepia with pops of blue and green. Interesting form, with bird in tree motif on one side and figural decoration o...

Tim Keenan wall mounted ceramic charger. 2021.

Stoneware vase in sandy with colorful assortment of shapes or geometric patterns present on both sides in a high-gloss finish. Interesting incorporation of attached fragments to the ...

Boldly designed and brilliantly glazed in tones of scarlet, jet black, white and gold, this dish sports an exotic phoenix bird resting on a filigreed tree branch, with one wing raised high. The colors are glorious, especially the full-bodied red of the background. The artist was Waylande Gregory, one of America's greatest sculptors and ceramicists before and after World War II. He was prodigious and indefatigable, producing a wide range of sculptures and wares in ceramic during his years working with Lorado...

John Tuska lidded stoneware vessel in a striking green glaze. John Tuska, full name John Regis Tuska, (1931–1998) was an American artist and educator. H...

Pale blue stoneware vase with a 'sand' colored floral decoration on both sides. Signed "Pollack '76."  

Ceramic sculpture with a snake motif by James Kouretas. Sculpture measures 14" wide, 10" deep and 36.5" high. Base is 10" diameter and 4.5" high. Partia...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Tripod Ceremonial Vessel #10 is raku-fired, hand built and hand sculptured. The tripod is uniquely with bronze acrylic, iron-rust interactive acrylic, airbrushed enamels (red, green and yellow) all layered on top of each other. Signed by the artist, each piece is comprised of a marriage of four elements -- a vessel held aloft by three legs. The process of fluid transition between the elements so that the product reads as one form was vital as he built the foundation for his signature collection. The Tripod Vessels...

FAPG 20247D John Bennett (1840-1907), New York Plaque with pink and blue phlox, circa 1881-1882 Earthenware, painted and glazed Measures: 14 7/8 in. diameter, 1 13/16 in. high Signed and inscribed (on the back): J B[monogram] ENNETT / E 24 NY. / MC [or] CM If the Herter Brothers was the most distinguished and successful cabinet making and decorating firm in New York in the 1870s-1880s, the transplanted Englishman John Bennett was probably the most gifted ceramicist working in New York in the Aesthetic period. (Bennett was included in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s landmark exhibition, In pursuit of beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, in 1986–87, and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen’s chapter, “Aesthetic Forms in Ceramics and Glass,” pp. 216–19, significantly informs this essay). Born in England, the son of a potter who worked in the Staffordshire district, Bennett came under the influence of John Sparkes, head of London’s Lambeth School of Art. Soon thereafter, he was hired by Henry Doulton of the eponymous firm to teach artisans there the new art of underglaze faience decoration, which was part of a revival of the sixteenth-century interest in hand-painted ceramics. A number of Bennett’s works for Doulton were shown in the Doulton display at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, and the considerable success enjoyed by Bennett and Doulton from an American audience undoubtedly played an important role in Bennett’s decision to leave Doulton and England and set up shop in New York in 1877. By the next year, he had already established a studio in New York, where he produced his own pottery in the tradition of the Arts & Crafts innovators, William Morris and William De Morgan, and also taught classes at the new Society of Decorative Art to the growing band of women who had taken up china painting, both professionally and avocationally. Bennett’s pottery developed a very serious following among students and collectors, and was offered for sale at such leading retail establishments as Tiffany & Company in New York. Typically, his work was brilliantly colored, with carefully drawn naturalistic flowers against a monochromatic background. Bennett’s fully developed American work, particularly pieces of larger scale, is exceedingly rare, as he worked in New York only from 1877 to 1883, in which year he withdrew to a farm in rural West Orange, New Jersey, where his production continued on a limited basis. He remained listed as a ceramicist there until 1889. While in New York City, Bennett maintained a studio at 412 East 24th Street. The present charger, boldly featuring pink and blue phlox, is signed by Bennett, and is inscribed “E 24 NY,” indicating its manufacture during Bennett’s time in New York. Although it is not dated, this piece is closely related stylistically to various dated pieces from 1881–82, which would place its production toward the end of Bennett’s New York years. Although we do not know whether Bennett worked out of this 24th Street studio from the outset, he was indeed working there by 1879 when he made (and signed, inscribed, and dated) a charger with white and red flowers now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, which specifically points to “412 East 24 / NY” (acc. no. 1998.317). Additionally, the U.S. Census of 1880 lists Bennett as a ceramicist located at that same address, married to Mary Bennett with whom he had had six children. There are several other examples from Bennett’s time in New York City, which also give his studio address on East 24th Street, including a covered jar in cadmium yellow with indigo and green flowers made in 1881; an undated footed vase with lilac...

Clyde Burt stylized face vase in glazed stoneware with manipulated and applied facial details. Signed to underside: [CB]. American, circa 1965.

Catherine McClung for Lenox. "Winter greetings everyday". Two large bowls in glazed stoneware decorated with mistletoe, birds and red ribbon. Approx. 200...

Sculpture depicting a female, armless figure lying on her side, circa 1960s-1970s. Unsure of the subject, but the style and details of the hair suggest this could depict Medusa. Imp...

Striking and unique stoneware vase made in 1976 by ceramicist, Pollack. Interesting incorporation of textures and patterns - a matte-beige mottled surface with a slight metallic shee...

Attractive stoneware charger / decorative plate in blue and brown with concentric circles pattern (inner circle is only a partial outline by design). Additionally, the mottled edge a...

Sponge ware ironstone pottery pie dish and serving plate.The condition is very good and color is fantastic shades of indigo blue. Selling the two pieces as a pair. Measures: 12.5 ...

This rare pair of porcelain candlesticks, brilliantly glazed in gold and white, are signed by Waylande Gregory, the pioneering 20th century sculptor and ceramicist. Prodigious and i...

Hand painted, Signed Marc Bellaire set of four ceramic dishes. Three have indentations for whatever you are smoking and the fourth is to hold whatever you are smoking. Fruit motif in...

Rare, perhaps unique, this quintessential Art Deco sculptural object -- probably meant to serve as a paperweight -- was sculpted by David Warren Seyler for Kenton Hills Pottery in no...

Art Pottery, Studio ceramic /weed pot, feelie by Brenda Williams. Northern California artist. Stunning form, wonderful glaze. Last photo ad...

Clyde Burt ceramic vase in glazed stoneware with incised, abstract details. Signed to underside: [CB]. American, circa 1965.