Vintage Chinese Lavender Jade Calligraphy Brush Pot, circa 1950s

Although unmarked, this rare and important, grand but at the same exquisite patinated bronze vase has just a very few little details, defying the shape of the handles, as well as the...

DIMENSIONS Height: 5 1/2 inches Max. width: 3 1/2 inches Bottom diameter: 2 7/8 inches MARKINGS Both, the neck and the top cover of the lid are stamped with a full set of French hallmarks, half-erased due to long-term use and therefore illegible. ABOUT This fine and unusual French antique perfume bottle of a superb quality and workmanship and can also function as a body lotion or bath salt...

This beautifully designed and highly decorative Art Nouveau ceramic vase is outstanding by all measures. It is very impressive and fabulously rendered in a most unusual technique, co...

Dimensions: Height 5 1/2 inches Maximum width 3 1/2 inches Bottom diameter 2 7/8 inches. Both, the neck and the top cover of the lid are stamped with a full set of French hallmarks, half-erased due to long-term use and therefore illegible. The repose bouquet of Irises on the cover is stamped with an essayist' hallmark, containing artist initials "RD". Fine and unusual French antique perfume bottle of a superb quality and workmanship; can also function as a body lotion or bath salt...

Dimensions Height: 7.25 inches Width: 5.25 inches Depth: 4.5 inches. Markings Fully marked on the bottom with a "B" in an urn-shaped cartouche (for “Bergmann”), and “GESHUTZED” (German: “PROTECTED). ABOUT What distinguishes this unique bud vase from others is a perfect synthesis of a utilitarian object and a Fine sculpture. It is not only the amazing subtlety and taste of the author’s artist skills, but an extraordinary design and an absolutely outstanding original plot. Designed for a single flower only, it is nonetheless a very complex and multifaceted composition filled with warm humor and fantasy. Sitting on a vessel shaped as a gourd, clasping its goat legs with hooves and holding on to the neck with one hand in order not to fall of it; a playful and mischievous faun holds by the tail a fleeing lizard with the other hand. FRANZ XAVIER BERGMANN (Austrian, 1861–1936) was the owner of a Viennese foundry who produced numerous patinated and cold-painted bronze oriental, erotic and animal figures, the latter often humanized or whimsical, humorous objects d'art. Cold painted bronze refers to pieces cast in Vienna and then decorated in several layers with so-called dust paint; the expertise for the mix of this kind of paint has been lost. The color was not fired hence "cold painted". Mainly women working...

Karoly Fulop (Hungarian, 1893-1963.) 'The Baptism' polychrome glazed ceramic signed to reverse 28" H x 24" W x 1.5" D A framed polychromed Art Deco ceramic panel, by multi-media arti...

This is a small vintage brush pot. A Chinese, ceramic windowsill planter with Oriental decor, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1970. Delightfully decorative small pot, useful ...

The cylindrical body molded with overlapping waves and applied with leaping carp; the underside bearing a molded apocryphal Daoguang seal mark.

China Exotic Wood Brush Pot

Chinese finely moulded ebonized plaster Brush pot bitong imitating carved zitan 20th century Of cylindrical form, decorated with complex designs depicting Tang ladies entertain...

A pair of vintage Chinese bamboo brush pots. Skilfully carved with images of birds of paradise, foliage and flowers. The pots are 'as found' and have not...

Beautiful “Cache-pot” or flowerpot in grès céramique with matte finish fabricated in Sèvres, France around 1930s. The material is typical from the Midcentury and the colour is of various grays. There is an ancient figurine...