18th Century and Earlier Ceramics

Of squared baluster form decorated with underglaze blue with red and gilt highlights and painted with boats in a harbor and flowers issuing from a vase with a foliate-cast gilt bronz...

A pair of Chinese cafe-au-lait and Famille rose ormolu-mounted porcelain vases. The porcelain is late 18th century and the ormolu late 19th century. One vase restored.

An antique Korean celadon glazed stoneware tea bowl from 15th century. It has been lovingly repaired with gold, using the kintsugi method, somet...

Mounted porcelain vase of gilt and chiselled bronze, 18th century, Qianlong period, signature of the period. Measures: H 30cm, W 16cm, D 14cm.

Beautiful Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) Cizhou ware baluster form vase having Ding style white slip glaze with double sgraffito gray celadon design at n...

Small Chinese?porcelain?jar by Maison Escalier de Cristal, with polychromatic decoration of blossoms, foliage and floral motifs. Late 18th century?porcelain, 19th century gilt bronze mounts. The lid chiseled with foliages is topped by a pine cone finial and the base is decorated with a laurel crown. Good vintage condition. L’Escalier de Cristal, Parisian firm created in 1804 by Marie Desarnaud, famous under the French Restauration for its decorative objects combining crystal and bronze. She was awarded a gold medal at the 1819 Paris Exposition des Produits de l’Industrie for an outstanding gilt-bronze mounted crystal dressing table. Located in Paris, at the Palais-Royal, Galerie de Valois, L’Escalier de Cristal was bought out around 1830 by Boin, and then by Lahoche in 1840. The company owed its rise to a position amongst the most important Paris decorative wares shops to Lahoche, who expanded considerably the business and entered later in partnership with his son-in-law to set up in 1852 Lahoche et Pannier...

18th century ormolu-mounted Chinese export mandarin vases. Each vase painted with figures in mandarin pallet.

A refined early Edo Period Kakiemon bowl with an octagonal rim. The interior of the bowl with a restrained decoration in overglazed enamels in the typical Kakiemon palette. One sid...

Japanese 'Karatsu' pottery dish made by the 'Komonari' kiln (1600 - 1630) in Arita with gold 'kintsugi' lacquer repairs, Momoyama - Edo period, circa 1600. Dimensions: H 3.5cm x D...

Pair of 17th century Japanese porcelain lidded vases with French mounts and figural mounted lids. Bronze mounts, late 19th century. Measures: H 19 in. (48 cm). Reference: Chri...