A Giltwood Urn Form Tabernacle

Pair of French Victorian Neoclassical style rosso levanto marble urns with gilt bronze ram head sides and acorn finial top with musical relief trim supp...

A massive neoclassical style terra cotta campagna-form garden urn with bold acanthus leaf decoration; with rolled lip adorned with egg-and-dart design above a flared neck over a comp...

19th century American cast iron garden urn with a beautifully flared fluted classical campagna form and ringed lion masks at both sides. Great old surface and color from years and y...

Beautiful pair of three dimensional detailed 18th century giltwood urn ornaments. Original period pieces, Italy, circa 1750.

Grand pair of early 20th century English Campana form garden urns or planters raised on pedestal stands. The pair feature cast iron construction with ne...

A Chinese four-legged barrel-form brass urn cast and engraved with archaistic decoration from the 20th century. The gently rounded sides are cast with the dispersed elements of two taotie masks, Archaistic auspicious beasts formed by a pair of stylized and confronted dragons which constitutes the features of this mythical creature, abstractly rendered in low-relief hooked curls. Two bands of kui or passing dragons flank the taotie ornamentation on the belly, all upon an engraved and very finely delineated white leiwen ground symbolizing thunder. Raised on four atlantes with a few anatomical engraved details, the urn possesses a flat circular lid decorated with stylized birds and topped with a phoenix-shaped knob with a ring, a propitious symbol in Chinese art. The white engraved ground nicely contrasting with the dark patina along with the Archaistic traditional low relief decoration echoes Chinese archaic ritual bronzes used in ceremonies or buried in the tombs of the elites for use in the afterlife. This Chinese barrel...