Vintage Ceramic Arts
Posted in Pottery on 05/30/2010 07:25 am by admin |
 VINTAGE CLAY CERAMIC HANDMADE Studio Art HANG CLOWN $655.00 Time Remaining: 19d 13h 32m Buy It Now for only: $655.00 |
 SPECTACULAR KERAMIS BOCH FRERES VASE Art Deco BELGIAN pottery ceramic vintage $535.00 Time Remaining: 20d 18h 6m Buy It Now for only: $535.00 |
 RARE Evans Ceramics Ancient Sands Pottery Raku Art Bowl Vintage $499.00 Time Remaining: 26d 1h 41m Buy It Now for only: $499.00 |
 Vintage Italian ceramic vases set Art Pottery Mid Century fantoni $375.24 Time Remaining: 2d 18h 7m Buy It Now for only: $375.24 |
 AMAZING VINTAGE IRIDESCENT ART 3D LILYS LEAVES VASE PORCELAINCERAMICPOTTERY $334.00 Time Remaining: 5d 2h 39m Buy It Now for only: $334.00 |
 Vintage Art Deco Ceramic Male Figurine Czech c40s $317.80 Time Remaining: 8d 3h 39m Buy It Now for only: $317.80 |
 L HJORTH DENMARK Vintage Ceramic HIPPOPOTAMUS FIGURE Studio Art Pottery HIPPO $277.00 Time Remaining: 2d 2h 2m Buy It Now for only: $277.00 |
 VINTAGE AWESOME DUTCH Art Ceramic FLORENTIN WALL HANGIN $200.00 Time Remaining: 27d 11h 21m Buy It Now for only: $200.00 |
 Vintage Ceramic Vase Israeli Jewish Art 1950s $199.00 Time Remaining: 12d 16h 35m Buy It Now for only: $199.00 |
 Vintage Art Pottery ceramic Floor Vase 428 65 Scheurich Vienna Wien ASeide 1971 $139.15 Time Remaining: 14d 13h 6m Buy It Now for only: $139.15 |
 RARE Vintage KADID Ceramic Double Handled Vase Israeli Jewish Art 1950s $149.99 Time Remaining: 12d 14h 28m Buy It Now for only: $149.99 |
 VINTAGE GRASSO Italian Art CERAMIC FISHERMAN FIGURINE $229.00 Time Remaining: 18d 7h 22m Buy It Now for only: $229.00 |
 Antique Dutch GOUDA Pottery HOLLAND Vintage MAT ART DECO VASE Ceramic $225.00 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 42m Buy It Now for only: $225.00 |
 Vintage Jaru Art Pottery Ceramic Vase Vases Pair Orange Drip Modernist Eames $225.00 Time Remaining: 10d 20h 10m Buy It Now for only: $225.00 |
 israel lapid Art Abstract Ceramics vase Vintage 60s $198.00 Time Remaining: 23d 2h 55m Buy It Now for only: $198.00 |
 Antique Vintage Belgium Ceramic Pottery Vase large Art Deco Crafts Majolica $200.00 Time Remaining: 25d 14h 3m Buy It Now for only: $200.00 |
 VINTAGE Hand Painted TALAVERA MAJOLICA Ceramic Art POTTERY FLORAL TRAY PLATTER $189.99 Time Remaining: 18d 15h 33m Buy It Now for only: $189.99 |
 Vintage Majolica MAIOLICA BLUE AND WHITE CERAMIC ART POTTERY RENAISSANCE PITCHER $189.99 Time Remaining: 18d 14h 56m Buy It Now for only: $189.99 |
 STUNNING VINTAGE LARGE ART DECO BELGIUM STEPPED BASE CERAMIC VASE $198.78 Time Remaining: 11d 5h 57m Buy It Now for only: $198.78 |
 MID CENTURY VINTAGE POLAND MODERNIST MIROSTOWICE ART GLAZED Ceramic Pottery VASE $195.00 Time Remaining: 21d 30m Buy It Now for only: $195.00 |
 Vintage Ceramic Vase Israeli Jewish Art 1950s $149.99 Time Remaining: 12d 16h 34m Buy It Now for only: $149.99 |
 Vintage LAPID Ceramic Vase Israeli Jewish Art 1950s $149.00 Time Remaining: 10d 13h 1m Buy It Now for only: $149.00 |
 israel lapid art figurativ Ceramic vase Vintage 60s $169.00 Time Remaining: 28d 2h 41m Buy It Now for only: $169.00 |
 Vintage Ceramic Vase Palceramic Israel Jewish Art 1950s $129.00 Time Remaining: 1d 20h 56m Buy It Now for only: $129.00 |
 Vintage Ceramic Signed Vase Israeli Jewish Art 1950s $129.00 Time Remaining: 11d 9h 47m Buy It Now for only: $129.00 |
 Vintage art pottery ceramic Floor Vase by Scheurich red Flower fat lava glaze $106.32 Time Remaining: 12d 11m Buy It Now for only: $106.32 |
 VINTAGE JAPAN BLUE CERAMIC FIGURAL ART DESK LIGHTER $170.00 Time Remaining: 16d 13h 23m Buy It Now for only: $170.00 |
 Vintage Israel Ceramic Art Pottery Ceiling Lamp 1950s60s $150.00 Time Remaining: 17d 17h 24m Buy It Now for only: $150.00 |
 Vintage Israel ART Karmit Ceramics HANDMADE BOWL 1950s $149.99 Time Remaining: 10d 16h 9m Buy It Now for only: $149.99 |
 Vintage Mid Century Modern Raymor Art Pottery Ceramic Alvino Bagni Squat Vase $149.99 Time Remaining: 20h 29m Buy It Now for only: $149.99 |
 ANTIQUE VINTAGE ITALIAN MAJOLICA MAIOLICA CERAMIC ART POTTERY FRUITS VEGETABLES $149.99 Time Remaining: 17d 22h 26m Buy It Now for only: $149.99 |
 VINTAGE REPRODUCTION CLASSICAL ANCIENT GREEK ART POTTERY CERAMIC PITCHER VASE $149.99 Time Remaining: 21d 13h 52m Buy It Now for only: $149.99 |
 israel lapid art Square Ceramics vase Vintage 60s $140.00 Time Remaining: 23d 2h 53m Buy It Now for only: $140.00 |
 Vintage HULL ceramic Heart vase rosella Art pottery $145.00 Time Remaining: 2d 14m Buy It Now for only: $145.00 |
 LARGE VINTAGE LIGHTING RETRO 1950S CERAMIC ART POTTERY LAMP WORKS $125.00 Time Remaining: 8d 3h 30m Buy It Now for only: $125.00 |
 Vintage art pottery ceramic Floor Vase Scheurich 423 47 blue relief decor $92.25 Time Remaining: 14d 13h 25m Buy It Now for only: $92.25 |
 Vintage huge art pottery ceramic Floor Vase 66 40 by BAY 60s Panton Era $92.25 Time Remaining: 15d 11h 25m Buy It Now for only: $92.25 |
 israel lapid art floral Ceramics vase Vintage 60s $135.00 Time Remaining: 27d 13h 44m Buy It Now for only: $135.00 |
 Camel Vintage Ceramic Made In Russia Art European Pottery $150.00 Time Remaining: 4d 19h 38m Buy It Now for only: $150.00 |
 Vintage Art Pottery Ceramic Vase Portuguese Musical Sheet Majolica Tromp LOeil $145.00 Time Remaining: 1d 21h 3m Buy It Now for only: $165.00 |
 Vintage Charles Halling Studio Art Pottery Ceramic Vase $145.00 Time Remaining: 24d 22h 1m Buy It Now for only: $145.00 |
 Signed Original Vintage Ceramic Vase Israeli Jewish Art 1950s $99.99 Time Remaining: 12d 16h 39m Buy It Now for only: $99.99 |
 PALCERAMIC VINTAGE 1950s ART DECO LARGE CERAMIC VASE $110.00 Time Remaining: 3d 15h 38m Buy It Now for only: $110.00 |
 LARGE VINTAGE ITALIAN BIRD MAJOLICA CERAMIC ART POTTERY SALAD PASTA Serving Bowl $119.99 Time Remaining: 18d 15h 15m Buy It Now for only: $119.99 |
 ANTIQUE VINTAGE ITALIAN COUNTRY WHITE CERAMIC ART POTTERY GRAPE VINE PITCHER SET $119.99 Time Remaining: 17d 22h 16m Buy It Now for only: $119.99 |
 Vintage Pair of Ceramic Arts Studio shelf sitters Maurice and Michele mid modern $125.00 Time Remaining: 28d 17h 58m Buy It Now for only: $125.00 |
 ANTIQUE VINTAGE ITALIAN CERAMIC MAJOLICA MAIOLICA ART POTTERY PHEASANT BIRD $119.99 Time Remaining: 17d 21h 11m Buy It Now for only: $119.99 |
 Vintage West Coast Art Pottery Matte Green Bird Ceramic 16 Hole Flower Frog $129.99 Time Remaining: 7d 17h 1m Buy It Now for only: $129.99 |
 Vintage Charles Halling Studio Art Pottery Ceramic Vase $125.00 Time Remaining: 23h 45m Buy It Now for only: $125.00 |
 Vintage Thomas Germany Cylinder Vase Art Pottery Ceramic Mid Century Modern $125.00 Time Remaining: 12d 1h 24m Buy It Now for only: $125.00 |
 Vintage art pottery ceramic Floor Vase 408 40 by Scheurich 60s 70s Panton $76.61 Time Remaining: 14d 12h 59m Buy It Now for only: $76.61 |
 Vintage Lapid Ceramic Cup Israeli Jewish Art 1950s $99.00 Time Remaining: 10d 13h 55m Buy It Now for only: $99.00 |
 VINTAGE MID CENTURY Modern Art POTTERY Tea Set TRAY ceramic GLIDDEN teapot $112.22 (6 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 20h 13m |
 israel art green Water Flowers heavy ceramic VINTAGE Vase with two openings 60s $86.00 Time Remaining: 5d 15h Buy It Now for only: $86.00 |
 VINTAGE GOUDA HOLLAND DUTCH HAND DECORATED STUDIO ART POTTERY CERAMIC VASE $122.00 Time Remaining: 21d 17h 36m Buy It Now for only: $122.00 |
 Vintage Mccoy CERAMIC Art Vase PEACH UNIQUE PATTERN 9 $109.99 Time Remaining: 3d 4h 51m Buy It Now for only: $109.99 |
 israel lapid art Round Ceramics vase Vintage 60s $95.00 Time Remaining: 23d 2h 51m Buy It Now for only: $95.00 |
 SUPERB LARGE VINTAGE ART DECO ST CLEMENT CERAMIC LIDDED POT JAR $100.00 Time Remaining: 6d 16m Buy It Now for only: $100.00 |
 israel art Hanging decoration Ceramics Vintage 60s Height 67 cm multicolored $98.00 Time Remaining: 21d 9h 29m Buy It Now for only: $98.00 |
 israel art bowl dish BROWN strips Ceramic beit hayotser Vintage 60s $99.00 Time Remaining: 26d 12h 2m Buy It Now for only: $99.00 |
 israel art bowl dish blue Jeans strips Ceramic beit hayotser Vintage 60s $79.00 Time Remaining: 26d 11h 24m Buy It Now for only: $79.00 |
 LARGE VINTAGE HAND PAINTED MAJOLICA MAIOLICA CERAMIC ART POTTERY WATER PITCHER $99.99 Time Remaining: 17d 22h 22m Buy It Now for only: $99.99 |
 Vintage Lapid Ceramic Pitcher Israel Jewish Art 1950s $99.00 Time Remaining: 10d 13h 35m Buy It Now for only: $99.00 |
 Vintage art pottery ceramic Floor Vase Dots Decor 5011 35 by Carstens 60s 70s $60.98 Time Remaining: 14d 12h 51m Buy It Now for only: $60.98 |
 israeli israel keramit keramos art boat bowl tray Ceramics Vintage 60s $98.00 Time Remaining: 5d 14h 11m Buy It Now for only: $98.00 |
 VINTAGE ART FLORAL FLOWER HAND PAINTED GLAZED REDWARE CERAMIC POTTERY URN VASE $89.99 Time Remaining: 1d 21h 18m Buy It Now for only: $89.99 |
 VINTAGE HUNGARY signed VINTAG ceramic art VASE hand embossed floral relief 80s $88.00 Time Remaining: 1d 14h 24m Buy It Now for only: $88.00 |
 Vintage Charles Halling Studio Art Pottery Ceramic blue bowl $105.00 Time Remaining: 23h 54m Buy It Now for only: $105.00 |
 Vintage Charles Halling Studio Art Pottery Ceramic Bowl $105.00 Time Remaining: 6d 19h 4m Buy It Now for only: $105.00 |
 Vintage Charles Halling Studio Art Pottery Ceramic Bowl $105.00 Time Remaining: 19d 22h 50m Buy It Now for only: $105.00 |
 Vintage Israel Ceramic Art Pottery Ceiling Lamp 60s BEIT HAYOTSER RARE $75.00 Time Remaining: 24d 8h 44m Buy It Now for only: $75.00 |
 Vintage Lapid Ceramic Vase Israeli Jewish Art 1950s $59.99 Time Remaining: 11d 14h 7m Buy It Now for only: $59.99 |
 Vintage Mexican Folk Art Ceramic Pitcher Jug with Wooden Handle 8 Sombrero $89.99 Time Remaining: 13d 16h 52m Buy It Now for only: $89.99 |
 VINTAGE ITALIAN MAJOLICA MAIOLICA CERAMIC ART POTTERY YELLOW LEMON FRUIT PITCHER $89.99 Time Remaining: 17d 22h 28m Buy It Now for only: $89.99 |
 Vintage Mexican Folk Art Ceramic Talavera Blue White Deep Plate Platter Charger $89.99 Time Remaining: 23d 1h 21m Buy It Now for only: $89.99 |
| Account limit of 2114 requests per hour exceeded. |
Antique Lamps With A Pearly Lustre
Pottery is a survivor! If there is one thing that is found on an archeological dig, its pottery. While wood, fabric and other materials having long since gone, maybe not a complete vessel, perhaps just pottery shards, but usually enough for an accurate dating to be made. These surviving specimens are very often pre-historic, clearly demonstrating early mankind’s use of clay and water!
There are many types of pottery and porcelains with histories long forgotten and it is one such as this that we look at here...
Lustre wares, or lustre pottery is one of the earliest decorative ceramic forms known and is recognised as originating from the Middle East. Lustreware first appeared in Baghdad and Samarra in about the ninth century AD. At this time, Baghdad was the world’s largest city and centre of the great Abbasid Arab Empire. Baghdad was a seat of learning with many universities where medicine, mathematics, astrology and science were taught.
The arts flourished with the ruling Caliphs who were great admirers and collectors of Chinese Tang dynasty porcelain. The porcelain was imported from China via the trading caravans travelling the long Silk Road.
It is always difficult to establish the accuracy of information from the 9th and 10th centuries, but there are persistent stories that tell of potters being abducted from Chinese ceramic centres and taken to Baghdad. These “pottery prisoners” were set to work with the expectation of porcelain being produced.
Without the very specific clays and kaolin for the production of porcelain available, the unfortunate Chinese potters had to improvise with available clays and eventually developed white glazes in an attempt to imitate the look of porcelain.
Nobody really knows, whether by accident or by experimentation, but the Chinese potters applied glassmaking techniques, techniques so ancient that their origins stretch back to the Egypt of the Pharaohs.
It would be more than interesting to know, just how and why these ninth century Chinese potters, so far from home, chose to decorate their Baghdad pots with metallic pigments, however they did so and as a result, lustre pottery was born!
Lustre ware produced an almost instant reaction with its golden iridescent glaze. At first it was considered alchemy, because the process involves using a lead-based glaze to create a golden shine on a pot, but without gold in it!
The essence of lustre, is of course found in the over glaze, the glazes containing lead, copper, silver, or even gold. When fired, the powder-like, metallic pigments produced the most brilliant iridescence ever seen on a ceramic body. Copper resulted in a brilliant red, silver may result in a glaze of bright silver lustre, or sometimes golden. The range of lustre colours is extensive, including pink, purple, canary yellow and moonlight lustre to name only a few from this incredible palette.
The result was completely indiscriminate, relying completely on the firing conditions of the kiln with the result being unpredictable.
On a technical note, lustre wares require three firings: - the first to fire, or harden the clay, the second to fire, or fix the plain glaze and finally, the third firing. It is this third time in the kiln that produces the lustre result.
The pottery shape would have been decorated, in accordance with Islamic culture, with a pattern, such as flowers and foliage, or a geometric or stylized decoration. The decoration now painted on with the chosen design, containing the suspended metallic compound.
This third, important firing is the lowest temperature of the three firings. It is at this critical period, that the kiln is “starved of oxygen”, with the metallic compound chemically “reduced” to the suspended base metal. The results were and are still not always as expected!
Lustre ware has a significant failure rate with only the most brilliant examples being kept. It is not usual, for even two examples from a firing to look exactly the same - such is the unpredictability of the result.
From Baghdad the technique spread to Syria and Egypt where the process became more refined, with examples from the 12th century still admired for their beauty. With the Arab influence in southern Spain, lustre ware was adopted as a Spanish ceramic art, as it was in 15th century Italy.
Lustre ware was not re discovered in England until the early 19th century when it was popularised by Spode and Wedgwood with many other more widely recognised names, such as Sunderland lustre and Wedgwood’s famous 20th. century Fairy Land lustre.
The lustre lamps illustrated, are examples made during the first half of the 20th century and were produced by Thomas of Bavaria around the period1920 -1930.
The history of the company begins in 1898 with the opening of the first porcelain factory in the Bavarian town of Marktredwitz and known as the "Porzellanfabrik Jaeger -Thomas & Co". Thomas had, what would be called today, “management problems”. He and Jaeger were having constant disputes, often ending with shouting and heated arguments. So in 1903, Thomas decided to establish his own factory.
For some months prior to leaving, he was having secret talks with a new prospective partner; Ens. Thomas took things slowly, not wishing to repeat his Jaeger history. Thomas was delighted as Ens was not interested in the running of the business, or in artistic direction, but wished only to be an investor which resulted in the birth of the "Porzellanfabrik Thomas & Ens" 1903.
The new partnership was an immediate success and Thomas had all the freedom of artistic expression he could wish for. Thomas was so successful that he soon caught the eye of the much bigger company of Rosenthal.
By 1908, Ens decided to look elsewhere for investment and informed Thomas that he was withdrawing his interest. This is just what Rosenthal had been waiting for and quickly made a move, becoming a major shareholder in 1908. This now left Thomas as an independent subsidiary of Rosenthal until 1960. The company continued to hold the registered rights and trademarks of Thomas until 2004 when the trademark was let go.
These lamps can be seen on The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co’s web site.
The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co specialise in antique lamps with an exclusive on-line range of over 100 unique lamps. Lamps are shipped ready wired for the US, the UK and Australia.
For further information you are invited to visit their web site at -:
http://www.antiquelampshop.com
© The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co 2010
About the Author
Maurice Robertson, principal of The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co, has had a lifetime’s association with antique porcelain and pottery, with his commercial experience spanning a period of over 45 years,including valuer to the Australian Government’s Incentive to the Arts Scheme. His long experience with antique ceramics and glass also includes dealing with leading museums and numerous international private collections. He has extended his ceramics expertise into the quality table lamps seen on the company’s site and is well known to local and international interior designers who have included many of his table lamps in their projects. He has also supplied items of national interest to the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister.