Antique Heron

Antique Chinoiserie style bamboo and rattan card / mahjong table featuring beautifully hand-painted Asian herons or egrets (circa 1910). "Bamboo goes in and out of style, but it has ...

The enamelled body has a pale blue ground with decoration of herons & red flowers. The vases each with a polished brass band to the rim, base and contours which catch the ligh...

The lady is holding strands of pearls and shells in her hand. A heron and other water plants are depicted in the background of a lake and raising sun.

.,) hand-colored prints, embossed with plate marks, includes two after Prideaux John Selby: "Little Egret Heron - Plate V", and "Scaup Duck - Plate LXVI", and two after R.

This plaque, created by Sèvres ceramicist Paul Milet in the early 20th century, features a heron in flight over a marsh landscape. Milet's plaque highlights the ceramic medium’s bala...

The Eurasian bittern or great bittern is a wading bird in the bittern subfamily of the heron family Ardeidae. There are two subspecies, the northern race breeding in parts of Europe ...

At the top is a striking and richly chased open wing heron.

The opposite side depicts herons wading and alighting on a flowering tree. the upper and lower portions of urn are decorated with repeating arched lozenges detailed with scrolls and ...

-Attractive tapestry unusually depicting a large Baroque country house or mansion with turrets in the background -The four exotic birds in the foreground are a charming feature, the...

Comprising a central clock with two flanking vases, the case with central and side panels decorated with flowers and herons, the two vases similarly decorated. Height, width and dep...

The corners with gilt herons and leaves. The middle stepped tier supported with white marble columns and half columns, gilt Empire style appliques of rosettes and fruit on branches o...

At the top are a trio of wonderful herons, with wings touching, and serpents grasped in their beaks.

A French Aubusson verdure tapestry panel from the late 19th century, depicting a heron in front of a lake, surrounded by foliage and with a cottage in the distance, and presenting a ...

Most notably, the body of the jug is engraved with a large Heron or standing shore bird standing in a pond surrounded by bull rushes or cattails which cover the remaining area of the...

In the foreground, infants collect and prepare herbs. A heron flies overhead. On the ground, numerous medicinal plants, among them aloe, plantin, rhubarb and others.

The five birds: crane, phoenix, mandarin duck, heron and wagtail represent the five Confucian relationships; in this case the crane stands for the key deference of son to father.

The legs are joined by a bottom tier with a beautiful inlaid scene of a heron. The gorgeous bird stands with a worm in its mouth and at the edge of a lake with charming water flora.

The fluted shaft supports the five finely chiseled wicks with, at the top, a heron. The decoration of these antique candlesticks is typical of the neo-Greek taste which spread in Fra...

This unique Koro or incense burner, is elaborately cast, with fine and extensive details has a beautiful and delicate decoration: its globular body has high relief decoration with bl...

Watts was born in London and where he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1835, exhibiting his first painting at the Royal Academy, The Wounded Heron, in 1837. In 1843 his Caractac...

The Eurasian bittern or great bittern (Botaurus stellaris) is a wading bird in the bittern subfamily (Botaurinae) of the heron family Ardeidae. There are two subspecies, the northern...

Unidentifiable duck Grey heron Ardea cinerea Purple heron Ardea purpurea ?

The genus name Platalea is from Latin and means "broad", referring to the distinctive shape of the bill, and leucorodia is from Ancient Greek leukerodios "spoonbill", itself derived ...

Each with ten light arms topped by a heron shaped extinguisher. Decorated with various Greek style motifs such palmets, pine cones ans water leaves.

The game was unknown to whites until the 17th century when a Jesuit priest observed Heron Indians playing it. He thought the stick and netting resembled the "crosier" carried by bish...

A matching pair, each issuing from a roundel with fine ropework borders containing a raised micro-mosaic plaque depicting a heron against a blue ground, suspending a drop shape penda...

Its outer wall is decorated in relief technique with four female semi-nude figurines being SYMBOL OF FOUR SEASONS: -- a woman holding burning torch, accompanied by owl (winter) ...