Emerging in reaction to industrialization and mass production, the Arts and Crafts movement celebrated handcrafted design as a part of daily life. The history of Arts and Crafts furniture has roots in 1860s England with an emphasis on natural motifs and simple flourishes like mosaics and carvings. This work is characterized by plain construction that showcases the hand of the artisan.
The earliest American Arts and Crafts furniture dates back to the start of the 20th century. Designers working in this style in the United States initially looked to ideas put forth by The Craftsman, a magazine published by Wisconsin native Gustav Stickley, a furniture maker and founder of the Craftsman style. Stickley’s furniture was practical and largely free of ornament. His Craftsman style drew on French Art Nouveau as well as the work he encountered on his travels in England. There, the leading designers of the Arts and Crafts movement included William Morris, who revived historical techniques such as embroidery and printed fabrics in his furnishings, and Charles Voysey, whose minimal approach was in contrast to the ornamentation favored in the Victorian era.
American Arts and Crafts work would come to involve a range of influences unified by an elevation of traditional craftsmanship. The furniture was often built from sturdy woods like oak and mahogany while featuring details such as inlaid metal, tooled leather and ceramic tiles. The style in the United States was led by Stickley, whose clean-lined chairs and benches showcased the grain of the wood, and furniture maker Charles Rohlfs, who was informed by international influences like East Asian and French Art Nouveau design.
Hubs in America included several utopian communities such as Rose Valley in Pennsylvania and the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony in New York, where craftspeople made furniture that prioritized function over any decoration. Their work would influence designers and architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, who built some of the most elegant and iconic structures in the United States and likewise embraced a thoughtful use of materials in his furniture.
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A Sèvres Porcelain and Gilt Bronze Vase in the Arts & Crafts style by Fuchs
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in New York, NY
A spectacular, highly adorned, Sèvres urn in the arts and crafts style. Skillfully hand painted garden scenes of maidens and putti on either side. Set on a turquoise ground are brigh...
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Vintage Dutch Black & Gold Tole Tea Urn, Pewter, 1880
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Vintage Dutch Black & Gold Tole Tea or Coffee Urn Beautiful piece purchased in France. Age appropriate wear, see detailed photos or message us with questions.
Pewter
$7,500 / set
French Majolica Large Urns- A Pair
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dramatic Pair of French Majolica Urns with Stork and Wolf's Head Handles This striking pair of French large majolica flower urns, dating from circa 1870-1890, exemplifies the vibran...
Majolica
Large Antique Presentation Pewter 1909 Tennis Trophy
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Inscribed Dayton County Club Tennis Tournament. With three shaped handles with pointed ends and shaped rim. Measures: 9” diameter by 11” high. Condition: dings around and on the ...
Pewter
S and G Keramik Monumental Classic Style German Ceramic Floor Vase
By Scheurich & Greulich Keramik
Located in Topeka, KS
Wonderful monumental ceramic floor vase in brown and antique white classic double handled style by S and G Keramik of Germany. In good vintage condition. There is one small glaze chi...
Ceramic
Banded Arts & Crafts Style Large Jar or Pot by Herbert Sargent
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Beautiful and simple large jar with a archaic banding scribed across the exterior top. Glazed interior while the outside is unglazed. In excellent vintage co...
Clay
Van Briggle Turquoise Ming Glaze Grecian Urn or Vase Signed D.R.
By Van Briggle
Located in St. Louis, MO
Circa 1980s Van Briggle Grecian urn with turquoise ming glaze signed by the potter Dorothy Ruff (D.R.) The urn has a high shoulder with loop handles, figure...
Clay
Pair of Hammered Copper and Brass Urns or Lamp Bases
Located in Redding, CT
Pair of Hammered Copper and Brass Urns or Lamp Bases. These beauties could be made into lamps as they already have holes drilled in the base. Possible origins in Mexico but no signat...
Brass, Copper
$510Sale Price|35% Off
Scott Potter Art Glass Hydrangeas Lidded Urn
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Scott Potter Art Glass lidded urn. It depicts a large urn decoupaged olive green print highlighted with two bouquets of light and dark blue Hydr...
Art Glass
Bronze & Sterling Silver Humidor
By Otto Heintz
Located in Malibu, CA
This rare vessel, designed by Otto Heintz. Hand forged in bronze & sterling silver. A Staffordshire terrier sits under a tree. The art is ove...
Sterling Silver, Bronze
Extra Large English Rose Hand Carved Porcelain Art Pottery Vase
Located in New York, NY
Graceful "English Rose" hand carved porcelain Arts & Crafts design pottery vase. Handcrafted by Christopher Brody. Vase is slip cast in plaster mold. Available in two colors, dual,...
Porcelain
Vase, Ceramic Vase/Vessel, Hand Crafted, Brown, From Peru, Brown Tones, C 1950
Located in New York, NY
Decorative vase by Cesar Alache, in Chulucanas, Peru. Decoration of dancers of a man and a woman around the beautiful ceramic vase.
Ceramic
Heintz Arts & Crafts Sterling Silver on Bronze Lidded Tea Caddy or Cigar Box
Located in South Bend, IN
A beautiful Arts & Crafts period sterling silver on bronze lidded canister, tea caddy, or cigar box with verdigris green patina. By Heintz Art Metal Shop (signed to the underside) ...
Sterling Silver, Bronze
Arts and Crafts Coffee or Chocolate Pot This is a beautiful hand made piece, th
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Arts and Crafts Coffee or Chocolate Pot This is a beautiful hand made piece, the main body of the pot is copper with a very stylish swan neck handle, and a turned lid The condition ...
Copper
French Arts and Crafts Golden Oak Cider Jug with Copper Bands
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
French Arts and Crafts Golden Oak Cider Jug with Copper Bands A beautiful looking piece and all the the style and charm of its era with riveted copper banding The jug is 12”x 6” in...
Oak
Antique Copper Jug Display, Hand Beaten Arts and Crafts Style, 1880
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
2ft tall Copper Jug Shop Display This is a great piece, it is made in hand beaten copper, which has a beautiful aged colour I expect the Jug was origi...
Copper
Lucy Fairfield Perkins ANTIQUE Stoneware Stickley era - W3332
Located in Shamokin Dam, PA
ANTIQUE Lucy Fairfield Perkins Stoneware This is a rare, large hand-built and burnished terra cotta vase with Etruscan-style decoration of farming scenes, Bridgeport, CT, 1907. Ther...
Clay
Arts & Crafts Vintage Copper Kettle A fabulous vintage Arts & Crafts/Art Nouvea
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Arts & Crafts Vintage Copper Kettle A fabulous vintage Arts & Crafts/Art Nouveau copper kettle, the kettle has a black ceramic handle with a beautiful shape and a classic design mon...
Copper
Large French Majolica Palissy Jardiniere Circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica Palissy jardinière with leaves and branches, circa 1880.
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$800 / set
H 10.75 in W 4.75 in D 4.75 in
Waterford Cut Crystal Horse Racing Trophy Covered Apothecary Jars Trophy Pair
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Pair of Waterford cut glass lead crystal horse racing lidded jars apothecary jar trophies. Each are engraved an signed on the bottom. Engravings are listed below. They would look ...
Crystal
Unglazed Chinese Clay Pot or Jar with Handles
Located in Sheffield, MA
The Chinese clay jar is handcrafted and has two small handles. Shallow en relief bands encircle the upper part of the vessel. The organic rich dark clay is from a Chinese river basin.
Clay
Swedish Modern - Large pewter vase - Ernst Svedbom, Svenskt Tenn 1960's
By Svenskt Tenn
Located in Stockholm, SE
Elegant pewter vase designed by Ernst Svedbom for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, circa 1960s. This beautifully balanced vessel features a classical amphora form with sweeping sculptural handl...
Pewter
Regency Tole Hot Water Urn
Located in Essex, MA
Chinoiserie decorated with cover with ball finial over a cylindrical body with lions head rings , lower spigot and pierced square plinth and paw feet.
Tin
Early 20th Century Italian Majolica Urn
Located in Houston, TX
Early 20th century Italian majolica urn. This gorgeous Italian majolica or maiolica urn or jardiniere is hand decorated with serpents, dolphins an...
Ceramic, Maiolica, Majolica
1960’s Scheurich Keramik West German Ceramic Vase 268-51
Located in Bern, CH
1960’s Scheurich Keramik West German Ceramic Vase. Numbered on base: W. Germany 268-51. With pillar box red glaze.
Ceramic
$1,590
H 11.42 in W 9.06 in D 6.11 in
Antique Edwardian Sterling Silver Presentation Cup with Interior Glass
Located in Miami, FL
A fine and impressive antique Edwardian English presentation cup. This impressive Edwardian presentation cup has a Campania form onto a knopped pedestal to a circular spreading foot...
Metal
Pair of Tole Flowers in Alabaster Urns
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Pair of tole floral arrangements in painted metal with shades of blue, green, cream, and soft rose, set in carved alabaster urns filled with pebbled detail. The close-up highlights t...
Alabaster, Metal
$120Sale Price|78% Off
H 16.93 in W 9.45 in D 9.45 in
Vintage West German Ceramic Art Vase from the 1970s
By Scheurich & Greulich Keramik
Located in Søborg, DK
Beautiful large ceramic art vase from the 1970s and made in West Germany Lovely floral designs and no chips or cracks.
Ceramic
Stein Keramik Vase - West Germany Ceramic
Located in Bern, CH
West German decorative vase produced by Fat Lava Keramik (W.Germany) in the early to mid-1970s. Features a black and white crackle glaze. Numbered on base: W.Germany 44-20 (20cm in h...
Ceramic
Portuguese Majolica Vase Urn
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Portuguese Majolica Vase Urn. It depicts a hand painted blue and white scenes of young olive trees and some birds flying in the sky. The bottom of the vase is adorned with ...
Ceramic
Bloor Derby Imari Campagna-Form Urns, ca. 1830
Located in Astoria, NY
Pair of Bloor Derby Imari Pattern Campagna-Form Urns, circa 1830, each marked "Bloor Derby" in underglaze red to undersides, each with flaring necks above round bodies with snake for...
Ceramic
Burl Wood Vessel or Vase in Chinese Fir
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Estate find- vintage burlwood vessel in Chinese fir. Beautiful organic form. Base retains a label- 'Nimble Creation- Hand carved from the roots of Chinese fir. through the initiative...
Fir
Large Antique Royal Doulton Lambethware, Attributed
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is an extraordinary studio work attributed to the Royal Doulton Lambethware studio and is in the Arts & Crafts aesthetic. Although the piece is not marked, it bares all of the ...
Majolica
A Pair of Galloway Pottery Crackled Glaze Urns with Iron Stands
Located in Dallas, TX
a gorgeous pair of tall, slender Arts and Crafts / Mission-style Galloway Pottery crackled glaze urns in blue-green / turquoise with handsome wrought iron bases / stands, each with h...
Pottery, Terracotta
Salt-Glazed Wood-Fired Covered Urn by Mark Hewitt
By Mark Hewitt
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Pottery covered urn with strap handles and peaked finial by Mark Hewitt, Chatham County, NC. Blue dominates the decorative effects. Salt glazed, wood fired...
Pottery
Charles Hubert Brannam Three Handled Cauldon Shape Art Pottery Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish English, Devon Arts & Crafts cauldron shaped three handled art pottery vase by Charles Brannam and dating from around 1880. The red clay vase is of simple squat rounded form with three flat strap handles applied around the rim and is decorated in drip green glazes on a cream colored ground. Charles Hubert...
Pottery
Arts & Crafts Scandinavian Copper Bucket
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Arts & Crafts Scandinavian copper bucket, circa 1890. Good quality keg barrel shaped copper pail, with steel handle and bottom rim. Well crafted item an...
Copper, Steel
19th Century Shaped Copper and Brass Log Bin
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
19th century shaped copper and brass log bin circa 1870. Good quality copper storage bin which is shaped like an elephants foot. Complete with decorative brass handles. Ideal for ...
Brass, Copper
Antique Arts & Crafts Hammered Dovetailed Copper Jug Vase Urn
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique hammered and dovetailed copper jug or large vase. Measure: 16".
Copper
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H 9.5 in Dm 4.5 in L 9.5 in
Antique Frederick Carder Steuben Rosaline & Alabaster Art Glass Lidded Urn c1920
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique lidded urn by Frederick Carder of Steuben offers rosaline art glass vessel and lid on alabaster art glass foot, signed on base F. Carder ...
Glass, Art Glass
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H 9.06 in Dm 7.88 in
Japanese Antique Jar / 12th-13th Century "Atumi" Kiln / Rare Vase/Wabi-Sabi Art
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
We have an aesthetic sense peculiar to Japanese people. And we introduce the unique items that only we can do, the route of purchasing in Japan, the experience value so far, and the...
Pottery
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H 8.08 in W 7.09 in D 5.32 in
Japanese Antique Pottery "Sueki" 6th-7th Centuries / Excavated Jar / Old Vase
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
We have an aesthetic sense peculiar to Japanese people. And we introduce the unique items that only we can do, the route of purchasing in Japan, the experience value so far, and the ...
Pottery