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Vase
Antique vases have been produced across different cultures and generations in a broad range of forms and decoration. They range from ancient examples to modern decorative designs.
Such vessels are most commonly found in ceramic, porcelain and glass with factors such as marks, glaze and condition all affecting values.

Constance Spry vase blossoms at £8500
07 March 2022Floral decorator tasked her assistant to develop a range which was fired by Fulham Pottery.

The vase that helped Doulton shine in Paris
21 February 2022Like other manufacturers, Doulton took great trouble with the wares submitted to international exhibitions.

Studio ceramics show post-Driscoll sale positivity
10 January 2022The full fall-out from the record-breaking Dr John P Driscoll sale of British studio ceramics is yet to be understood.

Record Pilkington’s vase sold to friend of its decorator
12 July 2021A Pilkington’s vase that fetched an auction record for the Lancastrian Pottery last month has sold to a friend of the factory’s decorator Gordon Forsyth (1879-1952), who created the rare piece.

Dagoty vases consigned to Bonhams
21 June 2021The sale titled 500 Years of European Ceramics at Bonhams Bond Street on July 6 includes this pair of 18in (45cm) vases by the Paris Dagoty factory.

Odundo work attracts prices at the level of Coper and Rie
07 June 2021More Odundo ceramics pieces sell well at specialist auction house Maak

'Lost' bronze vase discovered as table base in Oklahoma
13 May 2021A previously lost bronze and ormolu vase designed and commissioned by Thomas Hope (1769–1831) has been discovered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where it had been converted into a table base.

Amphora pottery brings a touch of Bohemian Art Nouveau to Denver
11 January 2021Amphora was the name given to the distinctive Continental pottery produced between the last decade of the 19th and the first of the 20th century in the central European Turn-Teplitz area of Bohemia by the RSt&K (Riessner Stellmaker and Kessel) factory.

Fairyland vase ghostly in Maryland
07 December 2020Weschlers’ Capital Collections auction takes place in Rockville, Maryland, on December 11.

Odundo vase achieves record for single work by living potter at Maak auction
30 November 2020London studio pottery specialist Maak achieved a record £200,000 (plus 20% buyer’s premium) for this vessel by Magdalene Odundo (b.1950).

Josef Hoffmann vase is a leading light at Vienna auction
30 November 2020Items designed by Josef Hoffmann, leading light of the Wiener Werkstӓtte movement, will feature in a sale in Vienna.

Phillips to offer specialist dealer's art pottery
30 November 2020Art Nouveau-era art pottery from the collection of Jason Jacques, the well-known specialist dealer in this field, will be offered on December 9.

Dalpayrat vases offered in German sale
02 November 2020Before he started producing his own ceramics in the late 1880s in Paris, at the age of 45, Adrien Dalpayrat had worked as a faïence painter in numerous other factories.

Zsolnay vase stands out in Berkshire
26 October 2020The most desirable of the varied wares produced by the small ceramics factory established by Vilmos Zsolnay (1828-1900) in the south-west Hungarian town of Pecs are those created after the 1890s.

Moorcroft bidders make 1912 overtures
05 October 2020Two pieces of Moorcroft Pomegranate pattern made exceptional sums within a matter of 24 hours at the end of September. Both were early versions of the popular pattern and dated 1912 – the year William Moorcroft left his studio at James Macintyre to run his own factory in Cobridge.

Vase designed by ‘father of art pottery movement’ makes 16-times estimate at Hansons
20 July 2020This large 16in (40cm) high baluster faience vase, sold by Hansons (25% buyer’s premium) in Teddington, is by ‘father of art pottery movement’ Joseph-Théodore Deck (1823-91).

Tiffany’s inspired Cypriote brings demand at German sale
29 June 2020It was a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art sometime in the 1880s that inspired Louis Comfort Tiffany to produce his so-called Cypriote range of art glass.

International interest drives bidding at Bellmans
09 March 2020Overseas interest fuelled bidding for two of the foreign offerings at Bellmans’ (22% buyer’s premium) Interiors sale in Winchester on February 12.

Vases from Napoleon III era show mythology on a grand scale
10 February 2020One of the highest prices of 2019 achieved by French auction house Beaussant Lefèvre (27% buyer’s premium inc VAT) was the €310,000 (£262,710) paid for this impressively tall 4ft 1in (1.25m) high pair of gilt bronze mounted, footed and covered vases.

Simple but sophisticated chest boasts ingenious woodworking technique.
03 February 2020Although outwardly simple objects, cedar ‘bent corner’ chests, still made today by the indigenous people of the Pacific North West, employ a number of sophisticated woodworking techniques.

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