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Urns For Sale
Style: Mid-Century Modern
Style: Louis XVI
1960s Willy Guhl Concrete Urn Planter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Concrete urn by Willy Guhl. Rare model. Excellent cream, pastel yellow and grey patina. Urn has a delicate cement ridge around the mouth giving it a beautiful minimalist design with ...
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1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete

Stunning Pair of 19th century Cast Iron Verdigris Garden Urns
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Impressive pair of 19th century cast iron garden urns. Urns have amazing verdigris coloring and patina. Adorned with medallions and fruit, sitting on equally impressive pedestal ba...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Urns

Materials

Iron

Vintage Willy Guhl Urn 12.5"
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Vintage willy guhl white urn with distinct weathered patina. These planters are unique and rare. Willy guhl (1915-2004) was a swiss industrial designer...
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19th Century Swiss Mid-Century Modern Antique Urns

Materials

Concrete

Vintage Willy Guhl Urn 16.5"
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Vintage willy guhl white urn with distinct weathered patina. Willy guhl (1915-2004) was a swiss industrial designer renowned for his groundbreaking con...
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Mid-20th Century Swiss Mid-Century Modern Urns

Materials

Concrete

Vintage Willy Guhl Urn 17"
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Vintage willy guhl white urn with distinct weathered patina. Willy guhl (1915-2004) was a swiss industrial designer renowned for his groundbreaking con...
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Mid-20th Century Swiss Mid-Century Modern Urns

Materials

Concrete

Vintage Willy Guhl Urn 21"
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Vintage willy guhl white urn with distinct weathered patina. These planters are unique and rare. Willy guhl (1915-2004) was a swiss industrial designe...
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Mid-20th Century Swiss Mid-Century Modern Urns

Materials

Concrete

Pair Of Classical Style Silvered Metal Garden Urns
Located in Essex, MA
Each baluster form with lions heads and cherub handles.
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Early 20th Century European Louis XVI Urns

Materials

Metal, Silver Plate

Willy Guhl Concrete Urn, 1960s Switzerland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Concrete urns by Willy Guhl. Three available with varying degrees of patina and lichen. Rare model. Urns have a delicate cement ridge around the mouth as well as around the widest pa...
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1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete

3 cast iron urns Sweden circa 1900
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautifull set of 3 cast iron urns Sweden circa 1900 High quality heavy
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Early 1900s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Antique Urns

Materials

Iron

Large Mid Century Brass Urn or Champagne Bucket
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A large mid century brass urn or vase with an oxidised finish circa 1950. This large brass urn makes a striking centrepiece on a plinth or sideboard, as impressive styled alone as it...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Urns

Materials

Metal, Brass

Small MCM Copper and Brass Watering Can
Located in San Diego, CA
A charming mid-century modern copper and brass watering can, circa 1960s. The small can is in good vintage condition and measures 3.75"D x 8.5"W x 5"H, holds abot 14oz of water. The...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Urns

Materials

Brass, Copper

Willy Guhl Concrete Urn, 1960s Switzerland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Concrete urn by Willy Guhl. Rare model. In a beautiful washed out patina from layers of finishes worn down over the years. Urn has a delicate cement ridge around the mouth as well as...
Category

1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete

Pair of Swedish Louis Seize Cast Iron Blue Oval Planters, 19th Century
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
19th century Pair of cast iron swedish oval planters with original blue paint. Weathered metal finish with incredible old world patina and the original petroleum-blue paint. Lovel...
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Late 19th Century Swedish Louis XVI Antique Urns

Materials

Iron

Willy Guhl Concrete Urn, 1960s Switzerland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Concrete urn by Willy Guhl. Rare model. In a beautiful washed out patina from layers of white paint which have worn down over the years. Urn has a delicate cement ridge around the mo...
Category

1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete

Willy Guhl Concrete Urn with Handles, 1960s Switzerland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Concrete urn by Willy Guhl in a heavy matte white paint. Urn has a delicate cement ridge around the mouth and two handles right under the upper rim. The body of the jar tapers down t...
Category

1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete

Monumental 18th Century French Louis XVI Terracotta Urn
Located in Houston, TX
Monumental 18th century French Louis XVI terracotta urn. This stunning 18th century French Louis XVI terra cotta garden urn, garden ornament, jardiniere or planter has a Grecian fee...
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18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Urns

Materials

Terracotta

Green Willy Guhl Concrete Urn, 1960s Switzerland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Concrete urn by Willy Guhl. Rare model in a beautiful washed out green patina with layers of finishes worn down over the years. Urn has a delicate cement ridge around the mouth as we...
Category

1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete

Willy Guhl Concrete Urn, 1960s Switzerland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Concrete urn by Willy Guhl. Rare model. In a beautiful washed out patina from layers of finishes worn down over the years. Urn has a delicate cement ridge around the mouth as well as...
Category

1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete

Willy Guhl Concrete Urn, 1960s Switzerland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Concrete urn by Willy Guhl. Rare model. In original grey concrete patina. Urn has a delicate cement ridge around the mouth as well as around the widest part of the jar giving it dept...
Category

1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete

Willy Guhl Concrete Urn, 1960s Switzerland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Concrete urn by Willy Guhl. Rare model. In a beautiful heavy patina from decades in Swiss weather. Urn has a delicate cement ridge around the mouth as w...
Category

1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete

Willy Guhl Concrete Urn, 1960s Switzerland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Concrete urn by Willy Guhl. Rare model. Excellent cream and grey patina. Urn has a delicate cement ridge around the mouth as well as around the widest part of the jar giving it depth...
Category

1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete

Willy Guhl Petite Concrete Urn, 1960s Switzerland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Petite concrete urn by Willy Guhl in a beautiful red patina. Urn has a delicate cement ridge around the mouth and two handles right under the upper rim. The body of the jar tapers do...
Category

1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete

Vintage Galvanized Steel Watering Can by Schneiderkanne
Located in San Diego, CA
A charming vintage galvanized steel watering can by Schneiderkanne of Germany, circa 1940s. The can is in good vintage condition and measures 31" D ...
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Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Urns

Materials

Steel

A Nice Pair of Onyx and Silvered Bronze Ornamental Vases
Located in Antwerp, BE
A good pair of antique marble cassolette. A nice pair of onyx and silvered bronze ornamental vases in the Robert Adam style. The three feet resting on circular onyx bases and decora...
Category

Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Urns

Materials

Onyx, Marble, Metal, Bronze

Exquisite Pair of Antique French Crystal and Dore Bronze Mounted Urns/Lamps
Located in New York, NY
An exquisite pair of very fine Antique French Louis XVI style hand diamond cut crystal and Dore bronze two handled covered urns/lamps. The campagna form dates back to the Greco Roman...
Category

19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Urns

Materials

Crystal, Bronze

Pair 19th Century French Ormolu mounted Marble Cassolettes
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An exquisite pair of Louis XVI style 19th century French ormolu bronze and marble Cassolettes. Each mounted with top quality ormolu grapes, grape leaves, flanked by two Dionysus head...
Category

19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Urns

Materials

Marble, Bronze

A Fine 18th Century Continental German Porcelain Decorated Urn
Located in New York, NY
Continental German (Berlin, late 18th Cent) porcelain pink and white decorated urn with a finial top cover and ram head sides, signed on bottom
Category

Late 18th Century German Louis XVI Antique Urns

Materials

Porcelain

Willy Guhl Concrete Urn with Handles, 1960s Switzerland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Concrete urn by Willy Guhl in a beautiful heavy patina from years of Swiss weather. Urn has a delicate cement ridge around the mouth and two handles right under the upper rim. The bo...
Category

1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete

Pair of Marble Urns with Cherubs, Signed A. Moreau
Located in Cypress, CA
Impressive large pair of French Louis XVI style hand carved white marble urns with cherubs, signed A.Moreau. Highly attractive and very decorative. la...
Category

20th Century French Louis XVI Urns

Materials

Marble

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19th Century Large Cast Iron Garden Urn Aesthetic Movement
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Spectacular cast iron Victorian Aesthetic Movement Garden Urn. In excellent antique condition with tons of patina, and no breaks or bad repairs. Amazing pair of handles all original ...
Category

1870s Aesthetic Movement Antique Urns

Materials

Iron

Willy Guhl Biomorphic Planters, 1960s Switzerland (Multiple Available)
Located in Malibu, US
Exceptional sculptural garden planters designed by Willy Guhl for Eternit in Switzerland circa 1960s, often referred to as his 'Clam Shell' planters. Resembling the architect's icon...
Category

1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Cement

Willy Guhl, Concrete Spindle Planter, Eternit, 1960s
Located in Berlin, DE
Willy Guhl, spindle planter, manufactured by Eternit in the 1960s. Very nice patina, rare lower model with larger diameter!
Category

1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete

Planter, Willy Guhl
Located in Copenhagen K, DK
Elegant outdoor pot/jardiniere, in an exceptionally rare and sought after version, by the legendary Swiss designer Willy Guhl. Formed in a charming jar des...
Category

1950s Swiss Vintage Urns

Materials

Cement

Planter, Willy Guhl
Planter, Willy Guhl
H 19.69 in Dm 14.97 in
French 19th Century Cast Iron Garden Urn with Dragon Handles
Located in Vulpellac, Girona
A 19th century heavy cast iron tazza shaped French garden urn. It has a fluted body that is placed upon a square pedestal base. The rim is decorated in an egg and dart pattern and wi...
Category

19th Century French French Provincial Antique Urns

Materials

Iron

Large Tapered Round Concrete Willy Guhl Planter
Located in Houston, TX
Large tapered round concrete Willy Guhl planter circa 1960s. Two available (see last picture) and priced individually at $2,200 each. Note: Original/early finish on antique and vint...
Category

Mid-20th Century Swiss Mid-Century Modern Urns

Materials

Concrete

Planter, Willy Guhl
Located in Copenhagen K, DK
Large and beautiful old garden pot / jardiniere, by the legendary Swiss designer Willy Guhl. A good conical design and with fantastic weathered patina....
Category

1950s Swiss Vintage Urns

Materials

Cement

Planter, Willy Guhl
Planter, Willy Guhl
H 15.75 in Dm 29.53 in
Pair of 19th Century Cast Iron Urns on Marbleized Pedestals
Located in Hudson, NY
This lovely pair of Campania form urns on painted and marbleized bases are from the 19th century. The urns show more wear and surface than the pedestals and both were used indoors as...
Category

Mid-19th Century British Neoclassical Revival Antique Urns

Materials

Iron

19th Century French Iron Garden Urn
Located in Houston, TX
19th Century French iron garden urn with curled handles and flower motif. Interior circumference is 8 inches. Square base is 6.5 i...
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19th Century French Antique Urns

Materials

Iron

Vintage Blue Glazed Garden Urn
Located in Chappaqua, NY
Vintage blue glazed garden urn. Spectacular cobalt blue glaze with varying dark to light shades. Glazed on the interior. Wonderful shape and scale.
Category

20th Century Urns

Materials

Terracotta

Pair of 19th Century Val d'Osne Cast Iron French Garden Urns
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of spectacular 19th century Val d'Osne cast iron French garden urns from the 1880s.
Category

19th Century French Antique Urns

Materials

Iron

Pair of 19th Century White Iron Garden Urns
Located in Milano, IT
A pair of large neoclassical 19th century iron garden urns painted white.
Category

19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Urns

Materials

Iron

Previously Available Items
Willy Guhl Concrete Urn with Handles, 1960s Switzerland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Concrete urn by Willy Guhl in a beautiful heavy patina from years of Swiss weather. Urn has a delicate cement ridge around the mouth and two handles right under the upper rim. The bo...
Category

1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete

Pair of Louis XVI Breche Violette Marble Urns
Located in Essex, MA
Circular with flared rim and gadrooned body with a square socle base. Best if displayed on pedestals or a high wall. They don't show well on the ground.
Category

Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Urns

Materials

Marble

Pair of Tall and Decorative French Cast 3-Piece Lidded Garden Urns with Handles
Located in Dallas, TX
This beautiful pair of French urns, measure just over 5 feet tall. Each urn consists of three pieces of cast stone, all with nature-inspired motifs. Both lids are topped with a pinecone finial emerging from a curled leaf cup above two layers of distinct leaves: palmate leaves on a vine on top of thick lanceolate leaves. Curled leaf handles are affixed to each main body (this is the second casting), emerging from a grapevine margent beneath a pair of scalloped shells. The handles terminate on a coil of thick gadrooning beneath a ring of foliage. There is a grapevine swag at the bottom of the bulbous body, just above a lanceolate leaf cup that graces the top of the plinth base, which is the third cast piece. The neck of the base is embellished with recessed fluting in between two foliate circles. To create cast stone items such as this pair of tall and decorative garden urns, crushed stone is combined with cement and poured into a mold, where the combination is allowed to set. Sometimes the artist will introduce a dye to the mixture, in this case a lovely cream coloring agent. After exposure to the elements, the cream finish has developed a truly stunning finish of golden speckles mixed with white, gray, and black patina. Our tall and decorative lidded garden urns...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Louis XVI Urns

Materials

Stone, Cast Stone, Cement

Pair of Willy Guhl Concrete Pedestal Goblet Planters, 1960s Switzerland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful set of 2 piece goblet planters by Swiss designer, Willy Guhl. Handmade in the 60s this goblet planter has great patina and details. The goblet top and pedestal base stack into each other neatly. Base is open allowing drainage, plants to take root directly into the ground beneath them or for use as a fountain . Each planter is made up of two...
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1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete

Willy Guhl Tree Planter, 1960s Switzerland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Interesting concrete tree planter by Willy Guhl. Cylindrical bin with indentations on both sides. 21" in diameter and 16" high. Thick concrete lip at the ...
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1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete

Willy Guhl Concrete Biomorphic Planter on Iron Stand, 1960s Switzerland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rare and unusual biomorphic bowl planter by Willy Guhl made in the 1960s Switzerland. Thick concrete frame with undulating top edge. This inverted bowl...
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1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Concrete, Iron

1970s Large Concrete Garden Planter
Located in Stow on the Wold, GB
Large 1970s Garden Planter made from solid concrete. In good vintage condition, nicely patinated, moss to the top edge. ST1417.
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Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Urns

Materials

Concrete

Large Florastone Concrete Fibre Garden Planter, 1960s
Located in Stow on the Wold, GB
A large Garden planter made from fibrous concrete from the 1960s. Made by Florastone. In good vintage condition, nicely patinated with a couple o...
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Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Urns

Materials

Concrete

Mid-Century Modern Concrete Planter by Willy Guhl Hourglass
Located in London, GB
Showing close to 60’s year of Patina, this wonderful example of a concrete Hourglass planter has improved in character with age. Perfect for sculptural or trailing plants, indoors or outdoors. It also be inverted to give you a second option for a different diameter plantscape. Willy Guhl was a pioneering Swiss furniture designer and one of the first industrial designers in Switzerland. Amongst many designs he was known for was his hour glass Planter...
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1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns

Materials

Cement

Italian Modernist Hand Formed Copper Vase Midcentury
Located in Rochester, NY
Italian modernist hammered copper vase decorated with spiraling lobes made by Egidio Casagrande. Rich bronze patina, circa 1940s. Egidio Casagrande (1911-1962). He worked in brass ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Urns

Materials

Copper, Metal

1970s Pair of Large Concrete Municipal Garden Planters A
Located in Stow on the Wold, GB
Pair of large concrete municipal garden planters. Very good quality, heavy planters. In good vintage condition, some wear over all and very nicely patinated.  4 identical planters...
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Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Urns

Materials

Concrete

Louis XVI Style Century Cast Iron Urn
Located in Hopewell, NJ
This cast iron jardinière of Classic campana or bell-shaped urn form features a gadrooned edge, raised neoclassical swags and Roman male masks on the body, and handles on either side...
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20th Century French Louis XVI Urns

Materials

Iron

Vintage, New and Antique Urns

When people think of antique and vintage urns — a type of vase with a round body, narrow neck and integrated pedestal — they tend to imagine funerary urns. But all manner of urns have been made over the years, and these vessels can be used as decorative accents either inside your home or in your garden.

Garden urns became popular in early Greek and Roman gardens, where they complemented classical statues and other garden ornaments. Over the years, people have used urns as planters, fountain basins and stylish decorative elements in interiors as well as outdoors in gardens, patios and firepit areas.

Urns are typically made of stone, ceramics or metal. Stone urns are highly durable; while an antique stone urn will show wear with age, it can be used in any climate, and a neoclassical-style cast stone urn with natural world motifs carved in relief is guaranteed to make a statement in your garden. Position two stone urns with vibrant hibiscus bulbs or tulips at the bottom of an outdoor stairway to set it off from other exterior features. Elsewhere, place your urn in the middle of a garden bed to draw attention to your dazzling landscape design. A good concrete urn can easily make a good home for small trees or shrubs, but it will be very heavy to move around.

A ceramic urn is likely going to have thick, robust walls. A glazed terracotta urn, for example, is going to be ideal for potting plants. As glazing is part of the potter’s process for creating a terracotta urn, the urn itself can provide a pop of color to contrast with any low-maintenance plants such as moss or succulents that you have in mind for it.

Metal urns are best used as decor in your living room or foyer rather than outside, unless you’re partial to the alluring weathered patina that is expected to characterize an antique cast-iron garden urn. If you’re planning to use a metal urn as a planter, add a plant liner first. Metal may overheat and damage a plant’s roots if they are not protected, and urns made of certain metals may rust if they’re left outdoors.

But you don’t necessarily need to turn your urn into a planter.

A large urn can hold its own as an accent in any space and create a strong focal point. Browse the collection of decorative antique and vintage urns on 1stDibs today.

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