Pair of Large Bronze-Mounted Celadon and Gilt Covered Potpourri Jars, circa 1870

Pair of French gilt bronze and marble covered urns with flame finial, ram's head and hoofed feet.

Pair of gilt bronze two handled covered urns on marble bases, French, circa 1890.

Painted pattern numbers 3/233 in red or black.

Each relief molded urn flanked by upright handles, painted with roundels with a scene of lovers on the front and back, on a cobalt blue ground.

An Important Pair of French Ormolu-Mounted Chinese Celadon-Glazed Urns. Each porcelain Urn having a lovely embossed decoration of butterflies and flora. The whole set with beautiful ...

A Pair of Large Gilt-Bronze Mounted Chinese Celadon-Ground and Slip Decorated Porcelain Vases. These vases of Chinese celadon porcelain from the late Quing Dynasty are slip-decorated with willow trees and prunus flowers. The finely sculpted gilt-bronze handles are modelled as winged merman term figures running on berried scrolled clasps to a rocaille raised foot. These superb vases are in the tradition for mounting Chinese porcelain with gilt-bronze accoutrements made by ciseleur-doreurs such as Pierre Gouthière for the marchand-merciers, namely Dominique Daguerre and Simon-Philippe Poirier. The practice continued into the nineteenth century when Prince Regent, later George IV (1762-1830), sent Chinese porcelain vases from the Royal...

A Very Special Pair of Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted Verde Antico Marble Urns and Cover. Each with grape finials. The handles formed ram’s head, raised upon a waisted sole and dome...

A Pair of Large Gilt-Bronze Mounted Chinese Celadon-Ground and Slip Decorated Porcelain Vases. These vases of Chinese celadon porcelain from the ...