Late 19th Century Vases

A Naturalia mineral specimen. A pair of druze of Calcite flowers crystals, rock crystals and blu quartz, mounted over carved wooden base, vase shape laquered green color. Italy circa...

This pair of French Empire vases date from the 19th century and are of exceptional quality. Unfortunately one of the cut crystal vase has been crac...

A very good quality Meiji period (1868-1912) Japanese patinated bronze vase, depicting two seated dogs below a Bamboo plant.

Handblown Mosque glass oil lamp in Mameluke style gilded with Arabic Cursive Calligraphy Middle Eastern Mosque lamp in the Islamic tradition, Moorish style etched blown clear glass w...

A wonderful D'Argental cameo art glass vase, France, late 19th century. San Giorgio Island scene with gondola and Palazzo San Giorgio in the background. Milky glass with shades of or...

This stunning Meiji period vase is a wonderful example of the quality of craftsmanship during the late 19th century Japanese Meiji period. The Meiji era was famed for being the perio...

A very fine and rare 19th century Royal Vienna Austrian vase. Palatial in size with the finest details . A hand painted classical scene signed Wagn...

Enhance your space in the timeless elegance of the late 19th Century Pair of Gilt and Polychrome Porcelain Vases. Crafted with meticulous attention to detail, each vase boasts a bott...

This absolutely enormous antique blue opalescent swirled trumpet vase is unsigned but presumed to have been made in the United States in circa 1890 in the period Victorian style. This handcrafted floor standing trumpet...

Rare pair of Michael Andersen ceramic vases with four owls as decoration on each vase, both of the vases have the classic blymajolika glaze which Michael Andersen is well known for. ...

Set of 2 purple vases. 1970s vases by Scheurich Germany. Combination of the colors brown and purple - Multi color vases. In brutalist style with a thick lava drip glaze. Beautiful...

Michael Andersen and Son Arts and Crafts ceramic vase with pewter decoration with the running glaze which was very typical for Michael Andersen and also his son Daniel Folkmann Ander...

Antique Chinese Qing dynasty (1644-1911) late 19th century bottle vase. The vase with a red crackle glaze to the outisde and a cream crackle glaze to the interior. The vase of bottle...

A lovely authentic antique 19th-Century hand blown mercury glass decorative bulbous vase from England. This stunning vase has a stylish shape in a beautiful patina and would be a per...

Theodore Deck (1823-1891) A deep green enameled faience miniature pair of vases molded in the Chinese Archaistic Taste. Coves in the shape of elepha...

Fine gilded, enamelled and jewelled opaline consists of large centre vase and two identical side vases/bottles. It is missing some jewels, no chips or cracks, some minor gold pa...

A lovely pair of authentic antique 19th-Century hand blown mercury glass decorative vases from England. These stunning vases have stylish shapes with hand painted floral designs in a...

This is a very old Japanese pottery jar. It dates from the Meiji period (1800s-1860s). It is thought to have been used to extinguish charcoal fir...

A lovely large pair of authentic antique 19th-Century hand blown mercury glass decorative vases from England. These stunning vases have stylish shapes with hand painted floral design...

Massive American Brilliant Cut Glass Flower Centerpiece Vase, Attributed to T. J. Hawkes  USA, circa 1890  A magnificent massive American Brilliant Cut Glass Flower Centerpiece Vase...

Signed F. Barbedienne & Cie Height : 31,5 cm (12,4 in.) ; Width : 12 cm (4,7 in.) ; Depth : 10,5 cm (4,1 in.) Charming baluster-shaped ewer in gilded bronze decorated with red and blue polychrome cloisonné enamel. Two beaded handles connect the body to the slender neck, ending in a flared pouring spout, and it rests on a circular piedouche. The whole is decorated with abundant engraved decoration of foliage interlacing. Barbedienne and the Cloisonné enamel : Ferdinand Barbedienne continuously innovated and he revived the use of enamel on art works during the second half of the 19th century. The Sèvres Manufacture enamel workshop had ever tried it in 1854-1855, but Barbedienne was the one who succeeded to join enamel to an industrial decorative objects production. From 1858 “At Mr Barbedienne’s, enamels in copper ornaments have got their former prestige back” (Les bronzes de la Maison Barbedienne, C. Simon, in L’Art du XIXe siècle, 1858, n°21, p. 252). The Barbedienne Company had now an enamel workshop where objects ornamented with oriental style or medieval style enamels were made. Four years after, Barbedienne’s cloisonné...

Seltene große Prunkvase in Kupfer und vergoldeter Bronze, wohl um 1870, möglicherweise Frankreich oder Russland. Auf der versilberten Kupferguss-Kartusche Darstellung einer mit Gewa...

Art Nouveau Cookie jar iridescent glass by Loetz' with Lid Subtle, hand blown glass vase in the Art Art Nouveau style. Special color and technique for any collector. Looks simply ...

Marked: Zsolnay Five Tower convex round stamp Material: white pottery with acid-etched, opaque eozin glaze Excellent quality. The Zsolnay Factory is a renowned Hungarian ceramic a...

George Ohr Biloxi 1880s-1909 Studio Art Pottery Bisque Ceramic Pitcher Vessel Exceptional bisque, earthenware pinched and folded paper thin design. Excellent original condition. No ...

Rookwood 1890 Art Pottery Standard Glaze Bird Floral 21" Ceramic Ewer 537A Daly Very rare and monumental ewer hand decorated by Matthew Daly with great color and artwork. Excellent ...

A museum quality rare example of the infamous factory of J & L Lobmeyr of Vienna, Austria, maker of stemware and decorative glass for European Royalty. This piece exhibits all of the...

Beautiful, rare antique early Venetian pink with gold leaf Italian art glass sea serpent or dragon mini vase. The piece is attributed to the Salviati Dott. Company, mid-1800s. The su...

Victorian pair of sterling silver-mounted cut crystal vases, England, circa 1895. Each heavy vase stands 7" high x 3 1/4" diameter at widest point. Crystal "twists" near the base of ...

An antique Japanese, late Meiji era, Ginbari enamel over copper vase. The urn shaped vase is enameled with a polychrome image of blossoming Wisteria flowers on the light blue ground ...

A pair of matching Japanese cast metal and cloisonne enamel vases richly decorated with polychrome floral ornaments on a black ground. Unmarked. Dated circa the late 19th century, Me...

A large antique Japanese Meiji era enamel over brass vase. The amphora shaped vase is enameled with polychrome medallions with a Phoenix bird and a dragon surrounded by floral, and f...

A 19th French century pair of Lacquered Bamboos Japonisme vases. An amazing pair of tall cylindrical bamboo vases decorated in Japanese Gold and Sil-ver Hiramaki-E Lacquer with Pavilions in The Mist and Weaving Figures, Flown Over by a Pair of Cranes. Enclosed in a Sino-Japanese Inspiration Golden and Brown Patina Bronze Mount Featuring Elephant Heads, Partially Openwork Branches and Salamanders Forming Side Handles. Circa 1870 Attributed to Édouard Lièvre (1828-1886) and Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892) Édouard Lièvre (1828-1886) is one of the most talented and prolific designer and industrialist of the 19th Century, his repertoire is sometimes Sino-Japanese or Neo-Renaissance, whether in furniture or works of art, we can note in particular the parade bed of Valtesse de La Bigne, furniture commissioned by the painter Édouard Detaille or even Sarah Bernhardt, and the famous works in collaboration with Maison Christofle or those in gilded bronze and cloisonné enamel edited by Ferdinand Barbedienne, presented at the Universal Exhibitions in 1878, 1889 and 1900. He was both a draftsman, painter, illustrator, engraver, ornamentalist and cabinetmaker, first trained in the studio of the painter Thomas Couture, Lièvre was then fully immersed in the world of decoration, creation and ornamentation and provides designs for manufacturers and merchant-publishers. Often assisted by his brother Justin, he first produced works of art for his own apartment, seeking out the finest craftsmen to execute his designs for bronzes, ceramics, fabrics and luxury furniture from great virtuosity and great taste. He then collaborated with the cabinet-maker Paul Sormani, as well as haberdasher merchants such as the Escalier de Cristal, bronziers such as Maison Marnyhac and especially Ferdinand Barbedienne as on our vases with bronze mounts characteristics of Edouard Lièvre's work. Born in 1810, died in Paris in 1892, Ferdinand Barbedienne, the most important caster of bronze pieces of art during the second half of the 19th Century, created and directed in Par-is one of the major artistic foundries of his time. Barbedienne specialized in classical reproductions, whose models were exposed in famous European museums. Their illustrated catalogues included many diverse objects such as busts, ornemental sculpture (clocks, candelabras, cups) sometimes even life-sized and bronzes for furniture. Apart from his own produc-tion, Barbedienne worked for the most renowned sculptors such as Barrias, Clésinger and Carrier-Belleuse. All his works were highly esteemed and he, himself honored by contemporary critics. At the London exhibition in 1851 Barbedienne’s firm won two « Council medals ». At the 1855 Universal Exhibition, he won a medal of honor. The success of Barbedienne’s firm brought him many official commissions, such in about 1860, as Barbedienne supplied bronzes for furniture for the Pompeian Villa of Prince Napoléon-Joseph, located avenue Montaigne in Paris. At the London Universal Exhibition of 1862 Barbedienne won medals in three different categories: Furniture, Silversmith work and Artistic bronzes. Barbedienne was made an officer of the Légion d’Honneur in 1867 and Commander in 1878 when he was compared with « a prince of industry and the king of bronze casting ». His glory did not decline with the passage of the time for at the Universal Exhibition of 1889 the critics thanked Barbedienne for the example he set for other bronze-casters by the perfection of his bronzes. “Japonisme” in the second half of the 19th century, was a craze for everything that came from Japan or imitated its style. The word was first coined in a series of articles published by Philippe Burty, from May 1872 to February 1873, in the French magazine “la Renaissance Littéraire et Artistique”. Far from the Academic sphere, artists seeking for new ways of expression, appropriated this discovery. Manet and the impressionists led the way to half a century of enthusiasm for Japanese art, and largely contributed to the esthetical revolution Europe experienced between 1860 and the beginning of the twentieth century. From 1862, The World’s Fairs provoked massive arrivals of fans, kimonos, lacquers, bronzes, silks, prints and books that launched the real era of Japonisme. With those exhibitions, the demand was boosted, the number of merchants and collectors was multiplied, and artists became passionate about this new esthetic. For them, its “primitivism” was probably its most important quality: artists were fond of the Japanese art’s capacity to be close to nature and to reconcile art and society by representing, with a lot of care, the most trivial objects. In painting, Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Degas, Van Gogh, Gauguin were among those who were deeply inspired by Japanese art, affected by the lack of perspective and shadow, the flat areas of strong color, the compositional freedom in placing the subject off-center, with mostly low diagonal axes to the background. The Japanese iris, peonies, bamboos, kimonos, calligraphy, fish, butterflies and other insects, the blackbirds, cranes and wading birds, the cats, tigers, and dragons were endless sources of inspiration, appropriation, and reinterpretation for European artists. The occidental productions were combining styles and artistic conceptions instead of copying Japanese art slavishly. That is what brings to light the comparison between the artworks of Kitagawa Utamaro and Degas, of Katsushika Hokusai and Van Gogh The World’s Fairs of 1851 and 1862 in London, those of 1867, 1878, 1889 and 1900 in Paris, of 1873 in Vienna and of 1904 in Saint Louis presented a number of “Japanese-Chinese” installations with earthenware, bronzes, screens and paintings and attracted the largest amounts of visitors In Vienna, the “Japanese village...

Antique German Moser Cut Glass Bud Vase with Gold Leaf Details, Circa 1880's.

A high quality Japanese enamel vase, Meiji era, 1868 to 1912. The vase has an amphora shaped body and a narrow neck. The ware is enameled with a polychrome image of a big dragon over...

An antique Japanese Meiji period cloisonne vase featuring intricate foliage motifs complemented by two exquisite floral panels. The meticulous craftsmanship in depicting foliage patt...

19th Century Japonese Imari Vase. Height / 8.5 inches.

We kindly suggest that you read the entire description, as we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. A rare and romantic French wedding vase...

A pair of rare large high quality antique Japanese Meiji Era enamel over brass vases. The vases of amphora form with elegant narrow necks slightly expanding to the rim. The exterior ...

A pair of high quality Japanese early Meiji period bronze and cloisonne enamel planter pots or koro incense burners, each of a globular form with a short flared neck, the exterior is...

A very impressive 19th Century Samson, Meissen style porcelain 'Snowball' ( Schneeballen) lidded vase. Of baluster shape encrusted with snowball blossoms, flowers and birds, the dome...

Very important and rare pair of pink porcelain vases of Berlin royal porcelain factory this vases are decorated with cartridges , inside they depicting gallant scenes, they are to...

Glazed oxblood vase by Hermann Seger for KPM. Ink-stamped manufacturer's mark to underside of smaller example 'S.gr.P' with scepter mark and incised number 'PM 3060'. Germany: circa ...

Rare French Majolica Parrot cockatoo Wall Pocket Choisy Le Roi, Circa 1890. Extremely rare green colors.

Signed on the underside by Gaetano Battaglia of Manifattura Battaglia, this tall hand-painted majolica ewer originates from Naples, Italy, circa 1870. Known as an istoriato (loosely ...

An antique Japanese vase from the early Meiji period, decorated with enamel using the cloisonne technique. The wide vase with a narrow neck and a complex, varied pattern. At the base and around the neck it has a rhythmic decoration of alternating light brown and dark brown patterns with black and white feathers. On one side of the vase there is a seascape with rocks and pine trees. The other side depicts a winter coastal...

This is a white porcelain sake bottle made at the end of the Edo period. The name of this pottery is Iwayaki. The Yako was built in Hikino-cho, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture. (The location marked with a red circle on the map is the pottery.) The kiln is currently abandoned. The kiln was opened in 1818 and continued until around 1900. Until this time, many sake bottles of this type were made and shipped with various decorations. (Please take a look at the document images of Iwatani Sake Tokkuri with various designs) This item is a pure white sake bottle and has the simplest design. containing a Chinese herbal...

An antique Japanese brass vase from the early Meiji period, decorated with enamel using the cloisonne technique. The vase is of a globular ...

A fine quality and imposing late 19th Century Japanese Imperial Satsuma vase. Having a cobalt blue ground, scrolling gilded foliate decoration to the...

Pair of covered porcelain vases with Famille Verte enamels decorated with flowered baskets and birds among peonies. Samson Manufacture, France late 19th - early 20th century.

A fine antique Japanese enamel brass vase featuring an elongated body with rounded shoulders and wide short neck. The surface is skillfully decorated with a polychrome cloisonne enam...

A blue ground pilgrim flask-shaped vase by famed English designer Christopher Dresser for Minton, circa 1870s. The foliage motif was most likely hand-painted by William Mussill...

A pair of large antique Japanese copper vases with polychrome cloisonne enamel decor. Late Meiji period, before 1912. Elongated shape with pronounced neck. Birds and flowers motif ag...

Large Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Green Gold Stone Enamel White Dragon Vase A large antique Japanese Meiji period cloisonne vase, featuring an im...

An antique Japanese copper vase with polychrome cloisonne enamel decor. Late Meiji period, before 1912. Elongated baluster shape. Intricate floral pattern against the dark green back...

Antique 19th Century German Moser Glass Bud Vase with Gold Leaf Overlay, Circa 1885.

Antique 19th Century German Moser Glass Bud Vase with Gold Overlay, Circa 1885.

Large Pair of Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vases Hawks on Cherry Blossom Tree Silver wire High Quality attributed to Hayashi or Ota A pair of antique Japanese Meiji peri...