Art Deco Vases
Vases and other flower containers have come to fill a popular position in all porcelain and pottery collections.Art Deco Vases in particular offer the ceramics collector a wide range of truly beautiful and sophistaced designs. And; although the best pieces by the most talented art deco artists can be rather expensive, a good quality art deco vase will add significant value to any pottery or porcelain collection.
So; ceramics collector should keep a wary eye on what is available and what is new to the market. You never know what good art deco vases will appear and just how reasonable they can be.
The ever popular art deco style is an architectural and decorative-arts style, popular from 1910 to 1940.
Art deco is characterised by highly stylised natural and geometric forms and ornaments, which are usually very symmetrical. Art Deco themes were often classical motifs reduced to geometric stylisations.
Art Deco glass uses geometric patterns, bold colours, exuberant, sometimes stylised, female figures, and animal motifs. Major designers of Art Deco glass were Rene Lalique, Maurice Marinot, Daum Freres, Marius Sabino, Etling, Schneider, Gabriel Argy-Rousseau, and Francois Decorchemont.