Pair of Antique German Porcelain Chinoiserie Baluster Vases, Fitted as Lamps

This handsome pair of lamps are at once highly ornamental and useful. An oversized pair of Japanese bronze vases of tall bottle form, each with a bulbous lower section embellished wi...

Pair of Quebec turned and carved maple pricket candlesticks, on tripodal bases, later adapted to electricity and fitted with custom parchment shades.

A good pair of antique French celadon and pate sur pate two handled bottle shaped vases. Each is finely cast with gilt bronze handles and bases. The technique of pate sur pate was p...

A fine pair of Renaissance Revival bronze candelabra, now mounted as lamps. Each slender stem supporting five scrolling arms linked by chains, the trefoil platform base modeled with...

Pair of Louis XVI style polychrome marble and bronze-mounted baluster form urns, later fitted as lamps, with beaded necks and gilt bronze swags, raised on square bases and furnished ...

This lamp is both highly decorative and useful. It is by Samson, hard paste, unlike Derby and is spuriously marked Derby. As is sometimes the case, the bird painting is of excellent ...

A fine quality pair of French Ormolu-Mounted Chinese Porcelain Vases mounted as lamps in mottled blue-ground glaze. Resting on square ormolu base with garland band and ormolu banded ...

A Pair of Hand Painted neoclassical French Porcelain lamps. The porcelain urns with gilt cartouches depicting Greek Muse's Evterpe, Polymnie, Clio and Uran...

Pair of classical baluster shaped turned wooden vases from ‘Chateau Collection’, painted in faux porphyry and the scroll arms finished with gesso an...

A famille rose porcelain vase, Guangxu (1875-1908), Chinese, of baluster form, painted with a pheasant standing on a rock and another perched on a blossoming magnolia tree, surrounde...

Exceptional pair of Chinese table lamp hand painted on porcelain, beautiful colors of form of ceremony with families and there children in the garden , in The back is Chinese scrip...

Late 17th Century Dutch Delft Faience Blue and White Chinoiserie Baluster Vase Mounted as a Lamp and newly electrified. Decorated in imitation of a Chinese Ming vase with a sage, rocks and vegetation, mounted on a wood base. The dimensions noted include the lampshade and electrical fittings. The vase as mounted in wood is approximately 10in. high and 6in. diameter. The arrival in Western Europe of the first shiploads of Chinese porcelain, lacquerware, ivory and silk in the 17th century stimulated interest in China, or Cathay, as it was then called. Europeans soon began copying the Chinese artworks and decorative objects. These decorative arts inspired by China, which enjoyed their heyday in the late 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, are known as chinoiserie. Soon after the introduction of expensive Chinese...