Robert Heron & Son Decorative Objects

A Danish midcentury large studio ceramic glazed stoneware pottery vase made by Noomi Backhausen. hand painted in an abstract motif in muted sage green, blue, and brown. Impressed marks to underside: Soholm Stentoj Bornholm...

Mason's ironstone Japan pattern pair of vases, circa 1830-1840. The vases are decorated in an imari palette with scroll handles highlighted in tu...

A fine, large vase in black basalt, decorated with an encaustic painted figure of a youth and an older man, taken from The Hamilton vase in the British Museum. It is unusual to find ...

A fine, large vase in black basalt, decorated with an encaustic painted figure of a youth, taken from The Hamilton vase in the British Museum. The shape is taken from the Greek Hydria...

Polished basalt, decorated with Victoria, Goddess of Victory, in her chariot; possibly after a Roman model such as the wall paintings at Herculaneum. T...

A Native American Southwest style ceramic vase vessel. Very nice vintage decorative item, quality craftsmanship. Measurements: 16" High x ...

From the 1970s come this stunning pair of oversized Karlsruhe ceramic vases in a rare dynamic scale. Details are amazing from the drippy stripes to the bluish purple interior glaze o...

A large scale ceramic vase by Anne Goldman. Anne's work is wheel-thrown stoneware, with carved, sculpted and pierced surfaces enhanced with porcelain and iron slips.

Pair of 1900s vases in glazed stoneware, decorated with hunting birds, insects, leaves and fruit, ribbons and masks of lion. The inside is lined with a container of tinplate.

This is a very rare ironstone vase, in the Chinese style, all hand painted in the coloured dragon pattern, made by the Mason's factory in the early 19th century. Both the vase shape and the pattern are very rare. The vase has a bottle shape with a fairly tall neck, having two dolphin head handles, with attached loops. (NOTES ON SHAPE This vase style is a copy of a much earlier Chinese bronze vase shape produced in the Ming, Hongwu period of 1368 - 1398, which had similar decorative animal head side handles with loops. ( See the book Chinese Ceramics by He Li, page 216, published by Thames & Hudson. ). Also On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 204; The square handles and rings illustrate the metal origins of the shape of the vase. Similar examples have been excavated in Chinese tombs dating to the fifteenth and sixteenth century, suggesting that the shape was particularly popular at that time.) This vase is beautifully hand decorated in a more complex variant of the Coloured Chinese Dragon pattern, with strong coloured enamels depicting a green dragon on one side and a pink dragon...

Large Saxbo vase by Eva Staehr Nielsen

This is a pair of monumental neoclassical style pottery urns handcrafted in Italy. They are marked and in very good condition. The urns most likely date to the later part of the 20th...