Vases and Vessels

Pair of large Sèvres-style porcelain and gilt-metal vases. French, 20th century Measures: height 97cm, width 42cm, depth 30cm With covers, el...

Floral painted antique glass vase by Baccarat. French, 19th century. Measures: height 45cm, diameter 18cm. By the exceptionally highly-regarded ...

Pair of antique porcelain vase-form lamps with floral decoration Continental, 19th Century Lamps: height 57cm, width 18cm, depth 16cm Shades: height 22cm, diameter 39cm With twin handles and painted floral decoration, these fine porcelain lamps...

Double sided porcelain urns with genre scenes and still life paintings on their reverse. The piece demonstrates the technical excellence of Sèvres porcelain, with delicate gold leaf in the form of foliage and garlands applied to the porcelain itself. The porcelain vases are beautifully decorated with gilt bronze (ormolu) mounts, containing expertly cast lion...

Vintage Rococo style hand painted and gilded ceramic cachepot - featuring floral panels to the front and back - gold gilt scrolls, flowers an...

Monumental Sèvres style ormolu mounted porcelain vase of the Four Seasons French, c.1895 Height 152cm, diameter 45cm Set on a polychrome ground, dominated by a rare and fitting beige ground, which is accentuated and banded with strips in green, this beautiful and monumental porcelain vase...

Handsome pair of antique Italian whippets or dogs carved from hardwood paint decorated and parcel gilt depicting the pair seated on pillows while balan...

This fantastic porcelain clock garniture contains three vases, one of which has been mounted with a ormolu clock dial with jewels surrounding it. The vases are decorated in the style of the Sèvres Porcelain manufacturers, with cartouches to the front and back. The panels on the front depict ladies and putti in a landscape, while the reverse sides depict riverbanks. The vases are set on ormolu bases with canted angles, and feature twin ormolu handles which take the form of masks. The central vase is surmounted by an ormolu putti...

A fine pair of Samson tole peinte & porcelain flower vases or cachepots. In the 18th Century Mennency style. In the form of porcelain urns or vases hand painted with floral motifs ...

A fine antique Dresden porcelain vase. By Thieme Potschappel. Decorated throughout with encrusted porcelain flowers and painted scenes. One side of the bottle is painted with flowers, the other with a scene of 3 children in colonial/medieval garb. With gilt highlights. Simply a lovely porcelain vase! Date: 20th Century Overall Condition: It is in overall good, as-pictured, used estate condition with no chips, cracks, or repairs. Condition Details: There are typical losses to the flowers & foliage. Otherwise, there are some fine & light surface scratches and other signs of expected light wear consistent with age. Marks: Marked to the base with a Thieme...

Sèvres style porcelain and gilt bronze jardinière and vase garniture suite French, late 19th century Measures: Vases: height 72cm, width 36cm, depth 22cm Urn: height 53cm, width 5...

Ormolu and Sèvres-style porcelain three-piece garniture suite French, Late 19th Century Vases: height 44cm, width 21cm, depth 16cm Urn: 38cm, width 33cm, depth 29cm Attributed to Pi...

This pair of Dutch Delft mantle jars show a delightful rococo scene hand-painted on blue and white Delft. We see a pair of cows resting in a fenced area with a flock of birds in the ...

An exquisite example of Rococo style ornamentation, this antique (circa 1890) silvered bronze pitcher comes from France. The pitcher has been adorned with spiral fluting that expand ...

Two maiolica flower pots Antonio Ferretti Manufacture Lodi, Circa 1770 - 1780 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) The...

18th Century French Pewter Pitcher is an elaborately decorated example of fine craftsmanship in everyday items, using techniques that were passed down fr...

A 19th century Meissen porcelain 'Elements' ewer emblematic of water. Blue crossed swords mark. The present ewer, representing water,...

A 19th century Meissen porcelain 'Elements' ewer emblematic of air. Blue crossed swords mark. The present ewer, representing water, i...

This striking pair of French cobalt blue Old Paris mantle vases feature center medallions with classic Greek profiles framed in a contrasting black backg...

The model of these Etruscan Amphoras has been exposed at the 1878 Paris Universal Exhibition. Each with a waisted neck raised with bearded satyr ma...

with rococo panel and hand-painted flower spray in the oriental style (c 1880) Handmade and hand-glazed in brilliant coloured Emameld flowers details. ...

A large Sèvres style, mounted and gilt, painted porcelain vase French, Early 20th Century Height 132cm, diameter 37cm This exquisite piece is a beautiful Sèvres style porcelain ...

This beautiful, unique pair of antique Majolica vases was crafted in France, circa 1880. The tall and thin colorful ceramic planters feature t...

A pair of amphorae Sevres hand-painted porcelain with champlevé glaze Origin France perfect condition. The Manufacture nationale de Sèvres is one of the most important and well-known...

Santos Oils container. Pewter. Century XVIII. Container made of pewter that has a foot, a body with curves, two handles and a lid. Its exterior decoration shows a clear influence o...

A large pair of antique Mediterranean terracotta jars. Originally used for olive oil and/or wine. Deep blue glaze and terracotta patina. Will complement b...

Jug. Silver. FAXARDO, Antonio. Spain, Cadiz, 1787; highlighted in Italy (Naples). With contrasting and burilada marks. Published in Encyclopedia of Spanish...

Pair of Greek style vases made two patina bronze. Each, designed in the shape of a tripod amphora adorned with Hercules heads, is decorated in low-relief...

Pair of gilt-bronze mounted Sèvres porcelain lamp bases by Picard French, Late 19th Century Height 52cm, width 21cm, depth 16cm These superb pieces are a pair of Sèvres style po...

Fine Dutch Delft vase with decoration is flowers and birds. Origin: Delft, The Netherlands Date: 1724 - 1764 Workshop: De Porceleyne Schotel (The Porcelain Dish) By: Jan Pennis...

A monumental and masterful pair of French Paris porcelain hand-painted vases, circa 1860. These museum quality vases are extremely fine quality....

A lush flower motif and rich color distinguish this rare perfume bottle by Jacob Petit, celebrated ceramicist and one of the most significant producers of...

Greek Volute Krater in patinated bronze with cartouches depicting armed soldiers with handles depicting masks.

We are pleased to offer this beautiful Mennecy blush pot 'Pot à Fard' made circa 1750. It is decorated with sprays of flowers, the finial shaped as a single purple rose with green le...

Maiolica flower pot “a mezzaluna” decorated with trompe l’oeil Pasquale Rubati Factory Milan, 1770 circa It measures: 4.7 in (cm 12) X 5 in (...

A Large Pair of French 19th Century Jacob Petit Porcelain Green-Ground Pot-Pourri Vases and Covers, Marked 'JP' on Bottom of Each. Each is of square form with a fantastic green ground. The covered vases are decorated with elaborate panels of village scenes, one either side of each vase, and also floral scenes independently to them. The vases are complete with pierced gilded relief frieze...

This is a very old gilt and pale pink background urn depicting a continuous hand-painted scene of a lady sitting in a pastoral landscape holding her fan and observing nature. In the ...

A very beautiful Italian white and gold porcelain vanity bottle with bird design in the Rococo style, circa early-20th century, Italy. A white porcelain bottle...

A magnificent large French XV rococo style patinated and gilt bronze urn. The fluted body of the urn, (almost ewer shaped) is of patinated bronze, the flutes inset at the top and bot...

I want to offer you this beautiful pair of murano glass vases. These vases are decorated with 24 karat gold and hand painted pink roses on a cut overlay pi...

Pair of English 19th century Greek Revival vases England, C.1830 Staffordshire pottery A pair of pottery vases decorated in a Grecian style ...

This a set of hand painted Porcelain cachepots depicting a decoration in a gilded centerpiece of a flower arrangement in the front and gilt acanthus growing along the diameter sides of it . Also, there are three hand painted cobalt blue rings around the cachepot decorated with gilt rows of parsley leaves alternated with the white background. The cachepots have two gilt & white rocaille shaped handles. Under the base is written in French that it was handcrafted in Paris, France by Le Tallec. Camille Le...

Two large covered vases with foot in white Carrara marble of Greek Amphora form, carved with climbing ivy. The shape of the handles have a geometrical form and show the taste of Anci...

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Provenance: A New England Estate Hand-painted in the 18th century circa 1765 these beautiful Mennecy Porcelain soft-paste pomade pots are rare. Pots like this held rich creams and l...

Mid 1700's cut crystal encased ornate sterling silver cylindrical shaped Dutch cologne or perfume scent bottle showing multiple scenes of vernacular life in 1700's Europe. Has a make...

Our important parcel-gilt and patinated silver and glass-mounted vase and matching oil lamp were designed by Paul Legrand (1840-1910) and crafted by the silversmith, Charles Glachant, for Boucheron of Paris, circa 1878-1880. 21 in tall and 16.5 in wide (53.4 by 41.9 cm). 28.56 lbs, 457 oz, 14,210 g. Provenance: presented to or purchased by Jean-Baptiste Pezon (1827-1897); acquired by a European private collector, perhaps on the death of Jean-Baptiste Pezon in 1897, by descent; acquired by YM Antiques, 2017. This double walled vase has an amphora form, with body and foot with silver, gilt and patinated and stylized flowers, anthemions and sprays of cherries against an etched and matted ground pierced to reveal a gilt inner wall. The upper body is detachable via a slip-lock, and mounted on both sides with arched panels formed of hexagonal beveled glass tiles. One glass panel applied with bacchic infants taunting a rearing goat and the other side with infants feeding grapes to a lioness under a looming bust of a satyr. The patinated and gilt upswung loop bifurcated handles are mounted with fully modeled figures of Pan bearing a syrinx and thyrsus and a draped maenad playing two flutes, both above roaring lion heads, the rim inset with a slip-lock detachable gilt bowl etched with masks of various representations of Bacchus spaced by ribbons and trophies and with scrolling fruiting vines. The base of interior with detachable base metal drip pan to accommodate the removable oil lamp designed to illuminate the glass tiles from within. The lamp is raised on four hoof feet, the upturned ends cast underneath with masks and with detachable cover mounted with two infant satyrs and flanked by gilt loop handles. The bacchic themed design featuring cartouches depicting infants taunting a goat and lion, plus prominent lion masks at the handles, certainly appealed to Boucheron's customer, Jean-Baptiste Pezon (1827-1897), who is believed to have commissioned the piece. Pezon was the celebrated lion tamer and headliner of the Grande Menagerie whose profession brought him great fame and fortune in Paris. Born a shepherd boy in Lozere, he is said to have left his home at the age of seventeen in the company of a wolf he had captured and trained years earlier. He headed to Paris and by the age of twenty-one purchased his first lion who he named Brutus. The animal is said to have inspired the Lion of Belfort, the monumental red standstone sculpture by Frederic Bartholdi erected in Belfort in 1880. Toulouse-Lautrec was among his admirers and friends, visiting Pezon's Great Lozerian Menagerie to sketch animals. A large bronze sculpture of Pezon atop a female lion adorns the Pezon family tomb in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, as seen in our image here. The vase and detachable bowl are marked on the underside with the silversmith's mark of Charles Glachant. The underside and upper rim of the lower body is engraved "Fic Boucheron Paris". The lamp is marked on underside and flange of cover for Glachant. Boucheron archives indicate the vase was inspired by the amphora vases created by the Greek potter, Nikosthenes, 550-510 BC. The Nikosthenic amphora vases are a form of Attic vase recognized for their angular amphora form with broad flat handles. Potted of bright orange-red clay, they were decorated with plant and animal motifs within distinct friezes, with the most significant defining feature being the black figure painting, often highlighted with white accents. In this vase Legrand re-imagines the striking contrast of the black figures against a warm ground through the use of patina and gilding. His inventive use of piercing and double-wall construction create additional levels of texture and depth throughout the body. The same combination of ornamentation was employed in a ewer designed by Legrand in 1880 in the Islamic taste. (See lot 77 of Christie's sale in New York on October 22, 2009.) Edmé Bouchardon (1698-1762), royal sculptor to Louis XV, may have provided Legrand with inspiration for the vase's iconography. The panel featuring bacchic infants taunting a rearing goat is very similar to a bas relief representation of Winter designed by Bouchardon for the Fontaine des Quarte-Saisons on rue de Grenelle, Paris. Bouchardon debuted his plaster model for the bas relief in 1741, and the fountain was completed in 1745. The Boucheron firm, founded by the celebrated jeweler, Frédéric Boucheron...

Pair of Hungarian 20th century porcelain urns with bright blue backgrounds and painted central pastoral scenes with gilt and pink details and lids with decorative cutouts...

These bronze-mounted Sèvres porcelain urns are monumental in both size and quality and feature the renowned manufactory’s signature deep cobalt blue glaz...

Pair of Grecian style (19th Cent) orange and black porcelain vases with ram head handles (PRICED AS Pair)

This is a huge bronze hand painted porcelain urn featuring a painting of The Birth And The Triumph of Venus after the painter Francois Boucher-1740. The oval painting is framed by gilt hand painted scrolls of acanthus leaves & branches of roses. The back of the urn has a golden crown with the monogram-LP-below it, that is surrounded by a frieze made of acanthus leaves and branches of roses (This represent the Royal Coat of Arms of the King Louis Philippe I...

An incredible and truly monumental 19th century Meissen Porcelain Covered urn emblematic of autumn. This is one of the most incredible and sp...

This pair of striking 19th century porcelain vases, though unmarked, were almost certainly produced by Jacob Petit (1797-1868), the French pottery manufacturer well-known for his idi...

Hand painted with scenes of a chateau landscape and courtly couples in a garden, signed 'E. Collot', on a gilt and cobalt ground, gilt-bronze acanthus swag handles, base and foliate ...

Porcelain vase. Rococo style, France, late 19th century.

Finest Viennese Enamel Work from around 1880: Metal body almost completely enamelled, belly with six oval, outwardly curved medallions with Watteau scenes, in between and on the spout detailed arabesque decoration with angel heads, inside flower garlands and floor star, raised rocaille handle with a bust of a man...

A very fine, antique KPM porcelain flower encrusted fruit basket. With traditional twig form handles and feet, an openwork body, flower encrus...

I want to offer you this amazing “Royal Vienna” style urn with a green background with exquisite paintings on both sides. The paintings are entitled "Die drei Gratien" or the three g...