Van Briggle Vase
Posted in Pottery on 07/30/2010 05:02 pm by admin |
 Van Briggle Vase Signed ANNA VAN BRIGGLE COLORADO SPRINGS $6.00 (3 Bids) Time Remaining: 34m |
 Rare 1903 Van Briggle Multicolor Vase Quatrefoils Flowers Stems Design 181 $3,495.00 Time Remaining: 28d 16h 34m Buy It Now for only: $3,495.00 |
 VAN BRIGGLE FLUTED VASE 1922 1926 $127.50 (5 Bids) Time Remaining: 47m |
 1919 Van Briggle Trailing Leaf Pottery Vase Design 859 Rare Black Matt Color $745.00 Time Remaining: 28d 20h 9m Buy It Now for only: $745.00 |
 VAN BRIGGLE YUCCA FLOOR VASE NICE COLOR GREEN BLUISH FLORAL OVER 17 $275.00 Time Remaining: 1h 9m |
 Beautiful Van Briggle Vase $75.00 Time Remaining: 12h 36m Buy It Now for only: $125.00 |
 Massive Van Briggle Late Teens 1920s Vase Experimental Glaze Design 754 $1,495.00 Time Remaining: 24d 17h 32m Buy It Now for only: $1,495.00 |
 Van Briggle Art Pottery Floral Patterned Vase GREAT SHAPE $75.00 Time Remaining: 14h 50m |
 Rare 1902 Van Briggle Art Pottery Vase Poppy Design 24 $2,295.00 Time Remaining: 12d 19h 11m Buy It Now for only: $2,295.00 |
 Van Briggle Moth or Butterfly Pattern Cabinet Vase GREAT SHAPE $25.00 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 14h 52m |
 10 Inch Blue Van Briggle Pottery Vase Daffodil Colorado Arts Crafts $165.00 Time Remaining: 21h 5m |
 Van Briggle Art Pottery Vase Pot Cut Out $65.00 Time Remaining: 16d 19h 30m Buy It Now for only: $65.00 |
 Vintage Van Briggle Turquoise Tulip Vase $29.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 21h 53m |
 Signed 1915 Van Briggle Art Pottery Vase Design 734 $795.00 Time Remaining: 15d 23h 7m Buy It Now for only: $795.00 |
 Van Briggle Mulberry Floral Vase Vintage 6 $48.99 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 22h 10m |
 Van Briggle Blue Turquoise Bowl Vase Vintage 4 x 5 $47.50 Time Remaining: 22h 16m Buy It Now for only: $85.00 |
 Van Briggle Petite Calla Lily Vase Persian Rose $79.95 Time Remaining: 23d 13h 3m Buy It Now for only: $79.95 |
 Vintage 1900s 15 Van Briggle Signed Butterfly Flower Vase $115.66 Time Remaining: 1d 26m Buy It Now for only: $135.40 |
 1907 12 Van Briggle Vase Design 595 Rare White Yellow Color $1,595.00 Time Remaining: 12d 19h 15m Buy It Now for only: $1,595.00 |
 Van Broggle Triple Bud Vase Turquoise $50.00 Time Remaining: 1d 4h 20m |
 VAN BRIGGLE Colorado Springs Gray White Rose Bowl Vase $24.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1d 4h 58m |
 1903 Van Briggle Art Pottery Vase Design 145 Rare Mustard Color $2,495.00 Time Remaining: 14d 21h 38m Buy It Now for only: $2,495.00 |
 Van Briggle Bud Vases Cabdleholders Candle Holders Pottery $72.00 Time Remaining: 1d 6h 13m Buy It Now for only: $80.00 |
 Van Briggle Pottery Three Graces Vase 17 tall Turquoise $695.50 Time Remaining: 26d 16h 31m Buy It Now for only: $695.50 |
 Vintage Van Briggle Pottery Vase Acorns Oak Leaves $200.00 Time Remaining: 1d 13h 11m |
 VAN BRIGGLE Art Pottery Butterflies Moths Vase 684 $100.00 Time Remaining: 1d 13h 14m |
 Dated 1903 Van Briggle Gourd Shaped Matte Purple POPPIES Pottery Vase Rare $5,000.00 Time Remaining: 5d 6h Buy It Now for only: $5,000.00 |
 Pair of Van Briggle Onion Bulb Turquoise Art Pottery Vases $225.00 Time Remaining: 1d 13h 17m |
 Van Briggle Petite Calla Lily Vase with Cut Outs Green $99.49 Time Remaining: 23d 13h 4m Buy It Now for only: $99.49 |
 VAN BRIGGLE HUGE ARTS CRAFTS VASE $177.50 (6 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 18h 18m Buy It Now for only: $600.00 |
 Van Briggle Brown with Mottled Drip Glaze Bud Vase $10.00 Time Remaining: 1d 20h 55m Buy It Now for only: $12.00 |
 Old VAN BRIGGLE Pottery Art Nouveau Vase 822 FLAWLESS STUNNING PERFECT PIECE $120.00 Time Remaining: 29d 22h 42m Buy It Now for only: $120.00 |
 Van Briggle small vase $9.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1d 21h 59m |
 Vintage Van Briggle Mulberry Stem Flower Vase $64.95 Time Remaining: 23d 16h 40m Buy It Now for only: $64.95 |
 Anna Van Briggle brown tone vase ewer pitcher $11.99 Time Remaining: 1d 23h 24m |
 Van Briggle triple bud vase $21.55 (3 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 1h 48m |
 Van Briggle Pottery Turquoise Blue Onion Bulb Vase 645 Colorado Springs $139.00 Time Remaining: 1d 22h 48m Buy It Now for only: $139.00 |
 1938 Van Briggle Pottery Vase $125.00 Time Remaining: 2d 4h 28m |
 Old 1920s VAN BRIGGLE Art Pottery Vase 822 Signed ART NOUVEAU Period $60.00 Time Remaining: 29d 23h 46m Buy It Now for only: $60.00 |
 VAN BRIGGLE Indian Chiefs Vase Mountain Craig Brown Glaze Ca1919 $125.88 (3 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 17h 34m |
 Van Briggle Turquoise Aqua 8 Vase $24.95 Time Remaining: 2d 19h 2m |
 AUTHENTIC 1903 VAN BRIGGLE POTTERY VASE Pattern178 7 1 8 H $2,000.00 Time Remaining: 14d 1h 50m Buy It Now for only: $2,000.00 |
 Vintage Turquoise Van Briggle Four Legged Vase $69.99 Time Remaining: 2d 20h 24m |
 Van Briggle ART NOUVEAU 2 DRAGONFLY Vase 10 1 2 Tall RARE $385.00 Time Remaining: 3h 29m Buy It Now for only: $385.00 |
 van briagle 3 vase together $100.00 Time Remaining: 3d 31m |
 VAN BRIGGLE BUTTERFLY VASE MULBERRY GLAZE VERY OLD $84.99 Time Remaining: 3d 13h 33m |
 Van Briggle Turquoise Aqua Vase AA Mark Colorado Springs Anemone Jonquil Design $69.95 Time Remaining: 16d 18h 34m Buy It Now for only: $69.95 |
 VAN BRIGGLE VASE MULBERRY GLAZE VINTAGE $34.99 Time Remaining: 3d 13h 45m |
 Rare Design VAN BRIGGLE Art Pottery Vase 834 1920s STYLIZED PEACOCK FEATHERS $78.00 Time Remaining: 29d 23h 55m Buy It Now for only: $78.00 |
 Van Briggle Ming Turquoise Butterfly Vase $35.00 Time Remaining: 3d 16h 16m |
 Van Briggle Vase blue tones turquoise w flowers $26.00 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 3d 16h 20m |
 VAN BRIGGLE 10 VASE JONQUIL LEAVES 1907 1912 40 MINT $1,995.00 Time Remaining: 16d 12h 6m Buy It Now for only: $1,995.00 |
 RARE Van Briggle Pottery OCTOPUS Vase from Legacy Kiln $595.00 Time Remaining: 3d 19h 4m Buy It Now for only: $750.00 |
 Van Briggle Iris Vase USA Pottery Blue Turquoise $149.49 Time Remaining: 9d 18h 6m Buy It Now for only: $149.49 |
 Van Briggle Mulberry vase tulip design $165.00 Time Remaining: 3d 21h 47m |
 Stunning Van Briggle Anemone Turquoise Vase Excellent Condition $22.99 Time Remaining: 4d 3h 35m |
 Vintage Pottery Van Briggle Cream and Sugar Vase Pitcher $54.99 Time Remaining: 7d 18h 33m Buy It Now for only: $54.99 |
 Van Briggle Dark Blue Iris Vase Excellent Condition $38.00 (4 Bids) Time Remaining: 4d 3h 40m |
 VAN BRIGGLE 8 VASE W LEAVES DATED 1917 IN GORGEOUS MULBERRY GLAZE MINT $495.00 Time Remaining: 17d 13h 41m Buy It Now for only: $495.00 |
 EARLY VAN BRIGGLE POTTERY VASE TURQUOISE BLUE ARTS CRAFTS $129.00 Time Remaining: 4d 13h 1m Buy It Now for only: $149.00 |
 Van Briggle Pottery Turquoise Blue TRIPLE CORNUCOPIA Bud Vase Candle Holder $34.95 Time Remaining: 4d 16h 12m Buy It Now for only: $39.95 |
 ca 1920 30s Van Briggle Turquoise 4 1 2in Vase Exclnt $100.00 Time Remaining: 8d 16h 42m Buy It Now for only: $100.00 |
 VAN BRIGGLE 9 1 8 GREEN AND BLUE FLORAL DECORATED VASE $99.99 Time Remaining: 4d 16h 14m |
 Van Briggle Pottery Late Teens Vase 794 $295.00 Time Remaining: 11d 1h 44m Buy It Now for only: $295.00 |
 rare Van Briggle burgundy twist vase $16.55 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 4d 19h 41m |
 Van Briggle turquoise vase $0.99 Time Remaining: 4d 19h 42m |
 Vintage Van Briggle Pottery Vase 925 2 Blues w Flowers $320.00 Time Remaining: 12d 13h 11m Buy It Now for only: $320.00 |
 Van Briggle set of 2 turquoise vases Anemone $17.39 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 4d 19h 42m |
 VINTAGE VAN BRIGGLE POTTERY VASE SIGNED $50.00 Time Remaining: 15d 13h 44m Buy It Now for only: $50.00 |
 Anna Van Briggle VanBriggle Art Pottery Fawn at A Tree Stump Drip Glaze Vase $16.99 Time Remaining: 4d 21h 42m |
 Van Briggle Pottery Iris Bud Vase Arts and Crafts Mission Roycroft Stickley era $52.00 (5 Bids) Time Remaining: 4d 22h 7m |
 Van Briggle Pottery 1914 Vase 855 $465.00 Time Remaining: 11d 1h 45m Buy It Now for only: $465.00 |
 Beautiful Vintage Van Briggle 5 Ming Glaze Blue Green Clover Leaf Vase 20s $49.00 Time Remaining: 4d 22h 26m |
 Van Briggle vase signed on bottom great condition 3c $188.50 Time Remaining: 27d 18h 23m Buy It Now for only: $188.50 |
 Van Briggle Pottery Iris Bud Vase Arts and Crafts Mission Roycroft Stickley era $24.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 4d 22h 39m |
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About fifteen years ago we met a couple we liked and a friendship developed. Our first visit to their house, however, made us wonder how the friendship had ever happened. To my rural and conservative eye, their living room looked as if it had been designed as a movie set about French royalty. It was all ornate curlicues and gilded swoops with nary a straight line in sight.
"What do you call this wonderful look you've created?" my wife asked. I had to turn away because all I could think of was "gilding the lily". Our hostess, at no loss for descriptive frills, explained it all using words like "baroque" and "rococo". I filed away these terms as things to avoid forever.
The look of the furniture that fills our house is the same as it was on that day. True to our heritage, we have mostly straight lined, tailored pieces, a few mission items mixed with mid-century Sears and late century garage sale. So it followed that when we started collecting pottery a few years ago, we stayed with the same look, mostly American Art pottery and a lot of it within the general category of arts and crafts. We developed more than a nodding acquaintance with names like Rookwood, Van Briggle and Hampshire, to name a few. Eventually, our wall of shelves containing pitchers and vases came to include a few English items like Moorcroft and early Doulton, but nothing more daring.
Then one day we went to a country auction nearby. These local auctions in Maine generally have firkins, trenchers, snowshoes and very little pottery, but we go anyway to socialize and sometimes pick up a pot or two. On this day, however, there was a vase on one of the tables that looked like it had dropped in from outer space. It was all twists and turns and although we'd seen pictures of similar vases while browsing through our ceramic guidebooks, we'd never actually touched one.
I went over to the auctioneer and pointed at the strange piece."What is it?" I asked.
He shook his head. "I have no idea. It says Austria on the bottom and that's all I know."
An hour later, he brought the vase up and, having begun to sort of like its looks, I bid $25. Nobody countered and so we now owned our first piece of Amphora pottery. Once we acquire something, we tend to study up on it, sort of like closing the barn door after the horse is gone. I know it sounds stupid but that's how we learn about what we have, bass ackwards.
Not long after, another nearby auction also had a piece of Amphora, even stranger looking, and we picked that up as well. We started studying in earnest and even bought a ridiculously priced book devoted entirely to the subject. And the more we studied, the more interesting Amphora and its cousins became.
First, let me explain that Amphora pottery comes out of the Bohemian region of what was then Austria. After World War I it became Czechoslovakia. Not so far away was Transylvania of the Dracula legends and Hungary, where Zsolnay Pottery originated. The gypsies came from there, too. These are all in what we think of as eastern Europe and they are way out there on the fringe. Maybe it was something in the water. At any rate, almost any other pottery looks tame compared to the weird dragons, beasts, birds, multiple spouts, gold, jewels and strange shapes you find in Amphora, Dresser, Royal Dux and other pottery that came out of that region from 1880 until about 1925. The movement was called different things in different countries, but now it's known generically as art nouveau, the original French term.
Virtually every antique guidebook has sections devoted to Amphora and its ilk. There are also very detailed and illustrated books on the subject, such as The House of Amphora and Maidens and Monsters, both published in the last few years. You can Google it to find these resources as well as examples.
On our own website, PotteryNuts.com, we always have a dozen or more examples in a wide range of prices and styles.
I don't want to send you to snoozeland with a lot of heavy details about who, when and how. Better for you to take a look and see for yourself if you like what we have learned is pottery like no other. One more thing: Amphora in all its glory looks just great on a mission library table. We can vouch for that.
For more information and to see some Amphora pottery visit our website at PotteryNuts.com to see the beauty of this fine pottery.