Chinese Copper And Bronze Barrel Form Planter

Circular footed with copper strapping. Constructed with individual pieces with light color wood banding.

With twisted brass handle and oval bodied pail with pierced brass decoration and brass strapping.

Oval with oxidized patination. Gadrooned body and animal head ring handles.

Urn form with hinged domed lids with urn finials. Tapered body and circular bases. Ebonized details. Tin lined interior. Lion head rings. Amherst Mass collectors estate.

French Empire bowl with snake handles and beaded edge, reeded shallow bowl, square base with censor and wreath mounts, plinth base.

Henry Ford II Estate Palm Beach. Circular waisted form with mounts on rim and base with paw feet.

A Chinese four-legged barrel-form brass urn cast and engraved with archaistic decoration from the 20th century. The gently rounded sides are cast with the dispersed elements of two taotie masks, Archaistic auspicious beasts formed by a pair of stylized and confronted dragons which constitutes the features of this mythical creature, abstractly rendered in low-relief hooked curls. Two bands of kui or passing dragons flank the taotie ornamentation on the belly, all upon an engraved and very finely delineated white leiwen ground symbolizing thunder. Raised on four atlantes with a few anatomical engraved details, the urn possesses a flat circular lid decorated with stylized birds and topped with a phoenix-shaped knob with a ring, a propitious symbol in Chinese art. The white engraved ground nicely contrasting with the dark patina along with the Archaistic traditional low relief decoration echoes Chinese archaic ritual bronzes used in ceremonies or buried in the tombs of the elites for use in the afterlife. This Chinese barrel...

A small vintage Chinese wooden barrel planter from the mid-20th century with red and black lacquer. Born in China during the mid-century period, this sm...

An unusual mid-19th century iron bound mixed mahogany and birch barrel from spirit flask, Scottish, circa 1860. Treen

Beautiful mid-century modern bronze resin square planters manufactured in the United States, circa 1970s. These planters are manufactured by the well-known company Forms and Surfaces...

Rice barrel with lid. Decorated with cartouches with flowers and butterflies. China, early 19th century.

Antique large quality Chinese bronze champlevé planter bowl circa late 19th century. Could possibly be Japanese in the Chinese style from the same pe...