A fabulous large brutalist Japanese modern ikebana sculptural vase. Great form on this cross shaped piece which can be displayed upright or on the side (2 different ends are unglazed). Surface is rough glazed stoneware in a mottled turquoise green, w ...
A beautiful Russel Wright for Bauer Pottery mottled gray corsage vase from the 1940s. Heavy mottled light gray drip glaze on modernist small vase form. Shown in Jack Chipman's Bauer book on page 96. Believe this is marked very very faintly on bottom, ...
A fabulous cast brass Curtis Jere (C. Jere) owl or owlet sculpture with unusual wire nest. Luminous green-yellow eyes, believe they are resin or lucite. Owl appears to be brass and the wires copper. This one is also interesting because it's mounted o ...
A lovely Bitossi Italy "Seta" (Silk) medium sized vase designed by Aldo Londi. This piece has a multitude of sgraffito hand carved diagonal incisions on white glaze along with thicker gold banding design. The interior of the piece is glazed sky blue. ...
Nice modernist serigraph by California artist David Weidman. Avocado green with reds in the print featuring a large rooster chicken in the foreground with 3 smaller birds in the upper corner. No frame, has a 2 inch mat in yellow-brown and a backer bo ...
Fabulous and scarce Jacob Jensen Axe Line Ice-Tongs with the original box. This is a Copenhagen Design in Denmark and is part of "The Axe Line" which included at least five different items. Believe the design is 1950s-60s. These are fairly rare, espe ...
Nice looking printed wood plaque made for the Emaus Benedictine Monks of Cuernavaca, Mexico. Probably dates to the 1970s or so. Mid century modern minimalist style orange crosses and white religious printed text. There is a cut slot in the wood on ba ...
A beautiful Vivika and Otto Heino studio pottery stoneware chawan tea bowl. Classic shape with wonderful abstract design in cobalt blue on light gray background glaze. Uncertain the time frame for this piece, but would fit well in any Heino or mid ce ...
Beautiful Warren Mackenzie studio pottery yunomi japanese stoneware cup with his shino glaze. Smooth rust brown and white glaze on wonderful form, rough stoneware construction. Stamped on the side near bottom with his chop mark. ...
A rare, fabulous covered California pottery pitcher with abstract modern design by Richard and William Saar from the 1950s-60s. The Saar Ceramics pottery was actually run by both Richard and his brother William - there was a recent exhibition on Saar ...
A fantastic oval ceramic rock vase by Tom McMillin. He graduated from USC with an MFA in Ceramics, taught at Cal State Northridge, and has exhibited in many different museums across the country. This delightful pottery form is a hand crafted oval-ish ...
A beautiful large Bitossi Portofino modernist Italian vase designed by Aldo Londi and distributed by Raymor. Blue and green glaze background, with incised plant and leaf decor on the side. We have seen this exact vase in one of the Bitossi catalogs w ...
A beautiful tall modernist cylindrical stoneware vase by Dr. Robert Ward Ramsey. A professor at Cal State Long Beach, he was also featured in the California Design series (7,8 and possibly others). Vase has a cylindrical form with curved ridge top, t ...
A very interesting Noel Osheroff dancing boy sculpture on wooden block base. Great looking expressive sculpture of a boy with hands on hips in the midst of dancing. Normally see the Osheroff pottery pieces which were produced for Robert Maxwell ceram ...
A rare, elegant set of four (4) Holmegaard Kastrup Opaline small wine glasses designed by Jacob Bang. These are exceedingly hard to find outside of Denmark. Beautiful opaline white modernist small glass pedestal forms, believe these are the wine glas ...
Fabulous and rare Howard Miller No. 522 wooden hexagonal wall clock designed by Arthur Umanoff. Believe this was called Natural Classics, unsure if that was the line name or the clock itself. Have also seen this clock attributed to George Nelson, but ...
An unusual Robert Maxwell Ceramics stoneware charger or serving platter, with mottled heavy blue glaze paired with pink. Features his trademark very rough stoneware clay with an inset rim detail. Dating from 2002, have not seen too many others if any ...
A fabulous small studio pottery stoneware covered vessel made by Tom Coleman. Originally from the Pacific northwest area in the 1970s, he and his wife eventually moved to Nevada where they continue to create wonderful pottery pieces. This is a beauti ...
An amazing studio pottery stoneware vase pot made by Hiroshi Nakayama and Judy Glasser. They have works in museums and galleries around the world. Spectacular ochre yellow drip glaze on a rounded orb form with lip opening, and brown and gray base gla ...
A fabulous rare set of post modernist pop art ceramic candlesticks by Peter Shire in 2003. A founding member of the Memphis Group, these candleholders are from his Echo Park EXP pottery which was begun in 1972. Two different studio pottery architectu ...
A wonderful large low pottery bowl attributed to Edith Heath of Heath Ceramics fame. We have always been curious about this line after first seeing them in Jack Chipman's California Pottery Scrapbook (page 211). We've now had a few of them and having ...
A fabulous striking Kosta Boda vase by Klas Goran Tinback. Great Swedish modern design, beautiful elegant slightly frosted glass form with a blue floral pattern design that is actually raised on the interior. I'm unsure how this effect was achieved, ...
A lovely small lucite fish figurine, designed by Abraham Palatnik from Brazil. Striking op-art design in blue and light blue dotting and lines, on blue-greenish lucite. Likely a 1960s-70s production. The usual "Pal" isn't integrated into the design a ...
A wonderful modernist Edmund Ronaky large square studio pottery tray or platter. Striking abstract fish graphics in black and white, and a rectangular blue glaze splash, on speckled dark beige background. Unglazed back. Fine redware clay construction ...
A beautiful studio stoneware bowl by New York potter Rose Wasserstrom (1922-2015). Per Vasefinder, she studied at the University of Michigan and then at Syracuse, working in ceramics while she was at the Rockland Foundation of Nyack, New York. Willia ...