Arthur & Bond Decorative Objects

19thC Brass Planter, with two mask handles, repoussé floral decoration and copper interior, on fluted base - 17"w x 14"d x 11.5"h

This Meiji vase is a beautifully decorated metal alloy vase, realized in Japan under the Meiji Empire (1867-1912). Take a look at the relief decors, lions on the base of the handl...

A very fine pair of Imari porcelain vases, of tapering form with flared top. Decorated with polychrome birds and flowers on white background. The body is painted with shaped panels o...

Late 19th century silver plated pair of handcrafted decorative vases / urns with exterior design details and removable water holder receptacle. Each vase ...

This is an unusual cloisonné Brush Washer bowl, made in Japan and dating to the 19th Meiji Period, circa 1890. The circular bowl sits on a low foot The main decoration has styl...

This is a 19th century pair of Japanese Bronze Vases. These are an urn shaped vases that their bodies depicts a high relief scene of some Phoenix birds around some foliage together w...

A pair of late 19th century Kutani coral orange and gilt double gourd vases, floral and landscape decoration with the traditional lion and phoenix Japan, circa 1880.

19th Century Japanese sterling silver vase with finely carved and embossed chrysanthemum flowers and butterfly. It has its maker’s mark on the bottom.

Pair Of Showa Period Japanese Lacquered Woven Bamboo Ikebana Vases, Japan, C.1950 The word Ikebana translates as the Japanese art of flower arrang...

A pair of identical antique Japanese, late Meiji era, Silver wire enamel vases. Each vase has an urn shaped body and a wide fluted neck. Each vase is enameled with polychrome images ...

A very good quality pair of Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912) Satsuma porcelain vases / lamps. Each with wonderful gilded classical motif decoration, with inset hand painted panels depicting various scenes of courtiers in attendance and Samurai warriors. Both mounted on ormolu oriental stands.

This is a very beautiful, highly decorative Tall Chinese bottle vase with a monochrome or single glaze colour of a fine sapphire-blue, which we date to the late 19th century, Qing period . This Chinese Export vase is well potted on a fairly tall foot, having a globular body, with a long cylindrical stick neck. On close inspection the glaze has a beautiful finely speckled texture, the depth of colour draining from the top rim where it is slightly lighter to a darker shade at the foot where the glaze thickens. The foot rim is well hand cut with an orange coloured iron oxide ring just above the foot rim and below the glaze, where the air hit the porcelain in the kiln. This is a heavy vase weighing about 2.75 Kg unpacked. The blue is a superb shade of dark sapphire / steel /dark sky blue colour. The inner neck area and centre of the base are also glazed. The base carries a hand painted six figure apocryphal Qing Kangxi ( 1662 to 1722) mark but this piece dates to the late 19th Century, in the later part of the Qing Dynasty. These single colour monochrome vases are often small with heights of about 7 or 8 inches but this is a much larger piece measuring well over 14 inches in height. Its elegant form, reminiscent of the traditional Guanyin vases...