American Ceramics

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...

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...

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...

Wheel Thrown Flower Stamped Buncheong bowl by Jason Fox 2 1/8" x 5 1/2" Largely influenced by Korean Pottery, Jason pays respect to the rich history of Buncheong Ware with thi...

1970s tall studio pottery vase, uniquely thin with a flared top. Hand-applied linear and geometric design with an attractive color palette of brown, beige, and red. Unsigned, but a...

1970 Polk stoneware "box" with a high-gloss black glaze blended with white, resulting in a smudged black and almost pink base color with burnt orange banding. Crude by design with an...

Impressive, dense figural ceramic vase / candleholder. Marvelous textural elements: an unglazed slab with a hole for a candle or flowers was applied to a thick, round base with a spi...

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

Clyde Burt ceramic vase in glazed stoneware multicolored glaze. Signed to underside: [CB]. American, circa 1965.

Brilliantly glazed in tones of crimson, silver and white, this very fine lamp base was created by Waylande Gregory, the renowned WPA sculptor and innovative ceramicist. Prodigious ...

"Shady b" 2025 This hand-built clay mask channels effortless cool. Glazed in a warm brown tone and detailed with sculpted black sunglasses and stylized lips, Shady b is all attitu...

Pair of Studio Ceramic Giraffes, Wonderful Form , fun and whimsical . Gold over matte black glaze . From the studio of Frank Engle . Originally in Los An...

This remarkable ceramic sculpture, probably the best work of Elisabeth Andersen Seaver, one of the famous Cleveland School ceramicists -- depicts an Indian chief with full feather he...

Terracotta vase with hand-drawn details with an Aztec-inspired pattern, circa 1970s USA. Molded floral central image surrounded by "stalagmites" on both sides. Good, vintage condit...

Clyde Burt ceramic charger in glazed stoneware. Signature to underside: [CB]. American, circa 1965.

This tall terracotta vase blends a traditional silhouette with a contemporary organic texture. Finished with studio-made glazes enriched with ash, its surface carries a rough, tactil...

Bulbous-form ceramic vase (ca. 1970s, USA). Attractive colors incorporated -- eggplant / cordovan with a butterscotch streak and pinched top border. Very good, vintage condition wit...

Created by Bonnie MacLeary, a Texas-born sculptor famed for her "Aspiration" and "Ouch" bronzes, two of several created in the 1920s, this classic Art Deco tile dates from the 1940s,...

Midcentury ceramic planters, American, circa 1960s. These pieces are unsigned, so we are unsure of the ceramicist, but the estate where the...

Almost fauvist in its bold use of color, this large (15-inch) platter features a female figure with long tresses framed by boughs laden with fruit or flowers, all executed in a tropi...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture #10 was assembled in 2004. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay with black glaze, raku patinas and hot blown glass. The following is an excerpt from the book "With Fire: Richard Hirsch, A Life Between Chance and Design" written by Scott Meyer...

This refined and sophisticated modernist urn form vase was realized in the United States during the latter half of the 20th century. It features a conical body that flares to an hour...

Clyde Burt vase, striped graduated tones vase. "Signed underside CB".

USA terracotta vase with geese motif on both sides, circa 1970s. Signed "R" to the underside.

Crafted entirely by hand from natural clay, this ceramic burner is designed for palo santo sticks, incense, or your own ritual elements. Each piece is sculpted individually, embracin...

One of a kind ceramic Noble vase in red clay with white speckled base, copper green glaze interior. The vase is comprised of two different clay bodies and features a raw, unglazed ce...

Icon modernist artist, in these two clay sculptures. Prized individually at $ 3000.00 each Measures are different in each, please contact dealer for more curate size.

1970s stoneware sculpture representing a pigeon. Surrealist in style, with humanistic characteristics / physical features. Minor loss to the brown glaze "straps" in the back. Like...

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

A colorful panel vase with nude scene, very large, tabletop piece by Deborah Groover from the 1990s. Nice shallow depth for placement on a narrow entryway/foyer table. No apparent ha...

Before he became known for his prolific production of brightly-colored ceramic sculptures and ware after World War II, Waylande Gregory created a series of classic Art Deco pieces su...

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 ...

Great sample of the later work of the very well known ceramist/ potter artist Michael Arntz. Similar geometric design are in Museums now.

USA studio terracotta vase with dual-sided floral motif in a high-gloss glaze of red, blue, white green, and yellow, circa mid-20th century. Signed "R" to the underside.      

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Ceremonial Cup #34 is part of his Tripod Vessels collection. It’s hand sculptured clay, multi-fire...

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

Flared pottery bowl with incised overall decoration to exterior. Glazed in sea foam green with brown highlights. Created circa mid-1950s, mint condition. Measures 4.25" H x 10.5" ...

1947 studio pottery chicken pitcher / decorative object by ceramicist and former art professor, Emily Reinse. Flaxen-yellow glaze with drip-applied dar...

Figural charger by ceramicist, Pollack depicting a man gazing at a growing tree (USA, 1977). Attractive color combinations and interesting textural elements present. Measures: H: 1...

1970s tall studio terracotta jar / urn, uniquely thin with a removable lid. Hand-applied linear and geometric design with an attractive color palette of black, brown, beige, and red....

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Raku tea bowls embody all the typical characteristics -- a rolling rim, an organic asymmetrical fo...

1980’s studio ceramic bowl glazed purple and gold by Gary McCloy for Steve Chase. Hand signed and stamped. Measurements: 10” Wide 10” Deep and 3.25” High.

Intriguing Cubist-style studio stoneware vase with a distortion of a woman's face to both sides. Nice textural elements: mottling to the surface along with linear and geometric motif...

A gorgeous pair of Arts & Crafts period large glazed art pottery bookends with Victorian lady design By Rookwood Pottery USA, 1931 Glazed ceramic in a beautiful cream color. Meas...

Petite ochre vase with blue / gray slate rim and sgraffito detail, circa 1970s. Unsigned.

Bulbous-form figural ceramic vase / candleholder. Marvelous textural elements: an unglazed slab with a hole for a candle or flowers was applied to an orb-shaped base with a woman's f...

This engaging ceramic art tile is a distinctive example of high-relief studio pottery, echoing the popular Scandinavian folk art aesthetic of the Mid-Century period. The piece featur...

This exceptional collection comprises four vintage ceramic art tiles, each a masterpiece of textural high-relief studio pottery, exhibiting a strong influence of Scandinavian design ...

American Studio Pottery work featuring a hand painted Primitive figure motif on terracotta, circa 1970s. Attractive combinations of colors; the ochre and brown background contrast ni...

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...

Hand built Ceramic Sculpture, in Gray/Green Underglaze. The Gray/Green is hard to capture: more dark gray than green, it has the feeling of the color sage green. The piece is a composite of hollow pods, elongated, pointed oval or elliptical shapes. They are individually hand-formed, attached together and fused during the firing. White stoneware clay with gray/green underglazes create a soft, powdery surface that still shows a bit of texture from the clay. It is not glazed. The Composite Series has an earthy presence, inspired by the huge bare boulders of the Anza Borrego...

Nice pair of bookends designed by Lee Rosen, with an amazing fused glass glaze like broken glass surface very popular and used for many designers of the period, in America and Europe...

A large and striking stoneware ceramic vessel in the form of an African fang figure on basket by American potters Mary and Edwin Scheier (1908-2007;1910-2008) dated to 1959. Made ear...

This pair of Tynsdale and Wright, Van Roden plates has all of the blue willow elements for the narrative.

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

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Pestle Sculpture was assembled in 2010. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, lowfired slips, black glaze, raku pati...

Classic Mid-Century Modern ceramic pottery by Marc Bellaire, 3 piece set includes stylized covered bowl, two stylized plates.

Isabel Halley is a 21st-century ceramic artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She handcrafts all her designs making this set of grey and ivory ribbon plates with ...

Studio pottery. Using a traditional technique of clay slab to fashion all the vases models slip cast and hand finished with layers of glaze and multiple firings. Sculptural and functional design, interior is glazed as well. Available in matte black...