Continental Europe - Ceramics

A stunning dark green glass decanter with geometric design, made by one of the many glass manufacturers based in the region of Empoli, Italy. Would ma...

The designs on this French faience group is typical of pottery made in Rouen. Early 20th century French hand-painted Faience vasse from Rouen Marking on the bottom: "Rouen Fait M...

This exceptional Tucano ceramic sculpture by Aldo Londi for Bitossi, crafted in the 1970s, is a rare collectible that goes beyond the iconic blue shades typical of Bitossi. Highlight...

Jean Austruy Circa 1950 Large asbtract 20th cenrtury ceramic vase by Jean Austruy Original perfect condition Signed under the base Height 23 cm Large 24 cm

art deco huge Ø32cm! rosé colored glass Bohemian Fruit Bowl

Set of 2 ceramic soliflores bottles vases by Bruno Gambone Brown earthenware Measures: H 47 cm / H 48 cm Signed Gambone Italy

Jean Austruy Large abstract ceramic dish or vide poche. Grey and colored abstract ceramic colors. Signed Circa 1950 Original perfect condition. Measures: height 10 ...

Vase made in the Tarnowiec Glassworks located in Poland, designed by J. Słuczan-Orkusz. Soda glass, mass-colored, hand-formed. Vintage product from 1970s Dimensions: height 20 cm...

- Handbuilt terracotta ceramic wall light - made of clay collected from the potter's surroundings. - made in the Moroccan Rif mountains by the potter Houda. - co-created by the potte...

Riccardo Gatti Italian important vase in glazed ceramic "a lustro". Faenza dating from the mid 1930s. Original label on the base Every item of our Gallery, upon request, is accompan...

A brown, large vase designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane at Rörstrand, it´s 21.5 cm (8.6") tall, 23 cm (9.2") in diameter and it´s in excellent condition. This is a unique vase only made ...

Virebent - designed by Jacques Laroussinie, circa 1970 Original white and brown 20th century porcelain ceramic tea pot. Original perfect condition Signed under the base ...

Decorative eartenware fruit platter by Anna-Lisa Thomson, Uppsala Ekeby, Sweden. Mid 20th Century. Beautifully decorated with fishes in various colors from late 1940s or early 1950s ...

Article: Ceramic Studio Pottery, set of 2 Decade: 1960s Producer: Atelier Schäffenacker, Ulm Germany Design: Helmut Schäffenacker This fantastic vase...

Pair of hand-painted and hand-crafted ceramic amphorae Caltagirone, Italy, 1980s Purchased by my grandparents, they are 31 cm high. Hand painted Sicil...

Vintage Capercaillie cock ceramic figurine by Cortendorf / Goebel Germany.

Decorative vintage Danish midcentury modern handmade ceramic lidded plate / cheese dome in warm brown, blue and green colors. Hand-painted women, mountain landscapes, small houses an...

Laurent Petit French abstract ceramic sculpture, circa 2010. Signed at the base Original and elegant abstract ceramic form. Large variations of colors. Red, ornage, white...

set of 4 Tiles from the series "Zanuso 31" , consists of 4 elements decorated with orange decal on glossy white glaze forming a sun. In 1968, CEDIT introduced to the world of cerami...

Service for 12 people, Cobalt blue by Rocal Limoges. Fine French service, in fine white Limoges porcelain. Decorated with thick cobalt blue enameled edging and 24-karat pure gold d...

Isambert elegant stoneware ceramic vase with blue and grey ceramic glazes colors Realized circa 1970 in La Borne Original perfect condition Signed under the base Measure...

Sublime Nanni Valentini large bowl for Ceramica Arcore Signed CA.

Early Arista y cuenca tiles made in Toledo. Tile decorated in renaissance with stylized flowers, probably made between 1550 and 1575. I have four of them available, please reach o...

VASE “SCARF” Author: Decorative Glassworks "Makora", Krosno Year of creation: 2nd half 20th century Information: laminated glass, hand-formed, mass decoration with a crack motif. h...

A lovely multicolored vase designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane at Rörstrand, it´s 22 cm (8.4") high and 13 x 7.5 cm (5.2" x 3") wide, it´s in excellent condition. This vase is a unique o...

This striking decorative plate in white clay was designed by Aldo Londi in 1959 and is part of a limited edition of 199 pieces. The decorations on the top of the plate are a multitud...

Set of 5 Ulla Winblad vases and bowls for Alingsås, Sweden mid century Set of five Mid-Century Modern Scandinavian style wares and a bowl designed and made by Swedish ceramic artist...

A lovely turquoise naturally shaped vase designed by Ewald Dahlskog at Bo Fajans, Sweden in the 1930s. The vase is 15 cm (6") high and in excellent condition. It has a lovely glaze.

Steen Kepp - La Borne Realised circa 1975-1980 Large brown stoneware ceramic box. Jewelry or decorative box Signed under the base Original perfect condition Measure...

Attributed to Pol Chambost Decorative 20th century midcentury ceramic flower vase. Elegant brick form with blue ceramic glaze color Original perfect condition, realized, cir...

A rare, large and generous vase with handles, Modernist, from Forme-Libre, sensual body in thick black enameled ceramic, yellow enameled interior, 2 small handles with openings, inci...

A pair of Minton Majolica Reticulated Baskets, designed by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887). Excellent condition on both pieces, no issues! Made in lead-glazed earthenware (Mintons "Majolica"). With full marks "MINTON 1210". Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse worked at Minton as chief designer between 1850 and 1855. During his time at Minton, he created models for porcelain items, including vases and sculpture...

Jean Cocteau ceramic mug - "Le chevalier" from 1959 Edition originale Madeline & Jolly . Red earthenware with red / black /green engobe and brown oxyde ...

Beautiful decorative carafe / vase in ceramic by Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand, Sweden, Mid-1900s. Signed. In good condition, normal minimal makers defects and smaller signs of age a...

Gustave Tiffoche Realised circa 1970 Diabolo 20th century ceramic vase by Gustave Tiffoche$ Signed at the base Original perfect condition Measures: height 23 cm large...

Huge Studio Ceramics Floor Vase from Wilhelm & Elly Kuch, 1960s Germany. Very good condition. Wilhelm Kuch, born 1925, 1947 apprenticeship - Gusso Reuss in Munich - 1948 opened the studio in Burgthann - 1953 became master potter Elly Kuch, born 1929 died 2008 1946-49 apprenticeship in several studios - 1949-51 second apprenticeship as a goldsmith - 1951 marriage with Wilhelm Kuch 1953 the Kuchs started to worked together in their workshop in Burgthann Their work like this Vase have received many honors: 1965 Gold Medal premio faenza, Italy 1965 prize of the „deutschen keramischen gesellschaft“ 1966 Gold Medal (premio faenza) , Italy 1967 Gold Medal (academie internationale de la ceramique) turkey 1968 prized again in faenza, Italy Gold Medal (premio pineta) cervia, Italy grand prix biennale ceramiche artistiche in Vallauris; grand prix des rates alpes maritimes became members of the academie internationale de la ceramique, gent Belgium...

Mid-Century French Decorative Wood and mother-of-pearl Platter 1970s

Glass in very good condition. The vase looks like it has just been taken out of the box. No jags, defects etc. Only one unique piece. Murano glass.

Unique Empoli bowl, ladle, box for candies or jewelry box. Very good original vintage condition. Only one unique piece. Produced in 1960s in Italy. .

Accolay Elegant midcentury ceramic vase by famous French potter. Blue and purple variations of ceramic glaze colors. Signed under the base. original perfect conditions ...

1 of the 150 glazed ceramic tiles tiles by Boch Freres, la Louvière, circa 1920's . Beautiful original antique dark green and off-white tiles with a wonderful rich pattern. The dime...

French Art Deco glass decorative dish with glass colored bubbles in very good overall condition. It has been made in France circa 1940.  

A brown vase designed by Gunnar Nylund at Rörstrand, it´s 16.5 cm (6.6) high. It´s in excellent condition and marked as 1:st quality. Gunnar Nylund was born in Paris 1904 with pare...

Wonderful blue glaze on these 2 vases and bowl from Rörstrand Sweden, designed by Gunnar Nylund in the 1950s. They are all in good vintage condition. Dimensions: Large vase H ...

Three wonderful pieces, two vases and one bowl from Rörstrand and maker, designer Gunnar Nylund. Made in Sweden in the midcentury. Exceptional glazed vases with wonderful curves. Thi...

Hands-free painted pottery rectangular dish in sage green from Austria in country style. Decorated with a hands-free painted pomegrante and a garland in white all around. Showing trees in the bottom and a handpainted green garland...

Large Decorative wood Plate in a brown color. Old and beautiful Patina. Circa 1960

Spanish small basin of glazed ceramic in brown decorated in the central part.

Extraordinaire Swedish Floor Vase "Palma" by Hjördis Oldfors, circa 1950 This rare, unfired example was left behind at the closure of Upsala-Ekeby and is believed to be a prototype ...

This Fat Lava Ceramic German Jug Vase is a striking example of the bold, sculptural designs characteristic of West German pottery from this era. Known for their use of thick, texture...

Acquareccia plate Patanazzi workshop Urbino, last quarter of the 16th century It measures diameter 17.12 in; foot diameter 11.53 in; height 1.88 in (43.5 cm; 29.3 cm; 4.8 cm). Weight State of conservation: wear and a few small minimal detachments of enamel, chipping on the raised areas, peeling of enamel at the brim on the back. This large, shallow basin is equipped with a wide and convex well. It is umbonate with a contoured center. The brim, short and flat, is enclosed in a double rounded and barely raised edge. The basin has a flat base without rims; it has a slightly concave center in correspondence to the well. The shape takes inspiration from the basins associated with the metal forged amphora pourers that traditionally adorned the credenza. These were used from the Middle Ages to wash hands during banquets. Two or three people washed their hands in the same basin and it was considered an honor to wash one’s hands with an illustrious person. The decoration is arranged in concentric bands with, in the center of the umbo, an unidentified shield on a blue background: an oval banded in gold with a blue head, a gold star and a field with a burning pitcher. Rings of faux pods separate the center from a series of grotesque motifs of small birds and masks. These go around the basin and are, in fact, faithfully repeated on the brim. The main decoration develops inside the flounce of the basin, which sees alternating symmetrical figures of winged harpies and chimeras. The ornamentation, outlined in orange, green and blue, stands out against the white enamel background. This decorative style, defined since the Renaissance as “grottesche” or “raffaellesche”, refers to the decorations introduced after the discovery of the paintings of the Domus Aurea towards the end of the fifteenth century. The discovery of Nero's palace, buried inside Colle Oppio by damnatio memoriae, occurred by chance when a young Roman, in 1480, fell into a large crack which had opened in the ground on the hill, thus finding himself in a cave with walls covered with painted figures. The great artists present in the papal city, including Pinturicchio, Ghirlandaio, Raffaello, immediately visited these caves. The decorations found there soon became a decorative subject of immense success: the term grotesque , with the meaning of “unusual,” “caricatured,” or “monstrous,” was later commented by Vasari in 1550 as “una spezie di pittura licenziose e ridicole molto”( “a very licentious and ridiculous kind of painting”). The decorations “a grottesche” also widely circulated in ceramic factories, through the use of engravings, variously interpreted according to the creativity of the artists or the requests of the client. Our basin is reflected in similar artifacts produced at the end of the sixteenth century by the factories of the Urbino district. See the series of basins preserved in the main French museums, among which the closest in morphology is that of the Campana collection of the Louvre (Inv. OA1496); this however has a more complex figure decoration, while the decoration of our specimen is sober and with a watercolor style. The style, sure in its execution, approaches decorative results still close to the works produced around the middle of the sixteenth century by the Fontana workshop. The decoration is closely linked to their taste, which later finds its natural outlet, through the work of Antonio, also in the Patanazzi workshop. Studies show the contiguity between the two workshops due to the kinship and collaboration between the masters Orazio Fontana and Antonio Patanazzi, both trained in the workshop of Guido Fontana il Durantino. It is therefore almost natural that their works, often created according to similar typologies and under the aegis of the same commissions, are not always easily distinguishable, so much so that the presence of historiated or “grottesche” works by Orazio is documented and preserved in Antonio Patanazzi's workshop. Given that the studies have always emphasized the collaboration between several hands in the context of the shops, it is known that the most ancient “grottesche” works thus far known, can be dated from 1560, when the Fontana shop created the so-called Servizio Spagnolo (Spanish Service) and how, from that moment on, this ornamentation became one of the most requested by high-ranking clients. We remember the works created for the Granduchi di Toscana, when Flaminio Fontana along with his uncle Orazio supplied ceramics to Florence, and, later, other commissions of considerable importance: those for the service of the Duchi d’Este or for the Messina Farmacia of Roccavaldina, associated with the Patanazzi workshop when, now after 1580, Antonio Patanazzi began to sign his own work. Thus, in our basin, the presence of masks hanging from garlands, a theme of more ancient memory, is associated in the work with more advanced stylistic motifs, such as the hatching of the chimeras and harpies. These are found here on the front with the wings painted in two ornate ways. In addition, the theme of the birds on the edge completes the decoration along the thin brim and can be seen as representing an early style typical of the Urbino district during a period of activity and collaboration between the two workshops. Later, a more “doll-like” decorative choice, typical of the end of the century and the beginning of the seventeenth century, characterized the period of the Patanazzi workshop under the direction of Francesco. Bibliography: Philippe Morel, Il funzionamento simbolico e la critica delle grottesche nella seconda metà del Cinquecento, in: Marcello Fagiolo, (a cura di), Roma e...

Affascinante set da pranzo vintage composto da 12 piatti in ceramica prodotti da Ceramiche SIC negli anni ’70. Il design è fortemente influenzato dallo stile Space Age, caratterizzat...

A graduate of Karol Štipl. He studied together with František Vízner, with whom he was often compared. Vízner and urban began working as designers at Rudolf Hut after graduation, in ...

VASE “SCARF” Author: Decorative Glassworks "Makora", Krosno Year of creation: 2nd half 20th century Information: laminated glass, hand-formed, mass decoration with a crack motif. h...

Roger Capron was a student of Applied Arts in Paris from 1938 to 1943 before teaching drawing there from 1945 In 1946 he moved to Vallauris where he created a ceramics workshop Cal...

Jean Brisy (1924-1991) Original abstract ceramic sculpture by French artist Jean Brisy Brown stoneware ceramic glaze colors Original perfect condit...

A ceramic liquor set designed and manufactured in the Thirties by Rometti Umbertide, it'is in good conditions overall with normal signs of use and age, it's signed on the bottom Rome...

L.G. Realised circa 1970. Elegant and original large stoneware ceramic sculpture or vase. Grey and brown stoneware firing effects and colors. Signed at the base. Original perfe...

Painted ceramic, very good original vintage condition. No damages or cracks. Beautiful and unique decorative sculpture. Small dog sculpture was pro...

A graduate of Karol Štipl. He studied together with František Vízner, with whom he was often compared. Vízner and urban began working as designers at Rudolf Hut after graduation, in ...