Stone Vases and Vessels

A most attractive pair of Italian Neo-Classical style white Carrara marble urns. Elegant fluted bodies giving it both a clean modern and yet classical look. Marble shows aged patina...

A high quality and most attractive pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Baccarat Crystal and Ormolu vases. This stunning pair of vases are raised on square Ormolu bases with scr...

Granite column on a Carrara marble base, circa 1880

21st Century hand carved clear crystal,golden bronze and "Capodimonte" bisquit roses potiche. This potiche is finely chiseled lost wax castings and hand ground crystal. On request to...

A beautiful and substantial Scandinavian Modern Swedish Modern Strombergshyttan crystal glass vase with regal Lion design, circa mid-20th century, Sweden. Beautiful detail in etched ...

A very primitive hand carved Spanish stone mortar from the 17th C. Heavily worn with exceptional patination. Others available...

Superb and imposing green Sommerso vase designed and produced by Flavio Poli for Seguso in Italy in the 1970s. Murano glass vase handcrafted by Venetian master glassmakers using the ...

A striking pair of hand carved alabaster urns featuring the face of Mercury, sinuous foliate arms, rims of acanthus leaves, on a stepped base.

Refined decorative urn made of fine Giallo Siena marble, with a characteristic polished finish that enhances the stone's natural veining. The domed lid with gold-plated brass knob ad...

Val Saint Lambert crystal vase cut to clear, label and signed Beautiful Val Saint Lambert circular crystal vase, hand-cut-to-clear, the glass is thick, deeply and evenly cut, Origin...

A very large and unique white marble mortar from the 16th century with sculpted side mascarons. This imposing piece has great patina and character. It looks impressive set in a coffe...

These truly exceptional and rare antique Louis XVI period vases have been sculpted from agate, a precious and highly sought-after stone. The vases are set on square agate bases with gilt bronze laurel wreath socles. The burgundy and claret agate bodies of the vases are mounted with gilt bronze acanthus leaf ornamentation, and twin lion masks joined by draped swags above. The lids of the vases are mounted with gilt bronze, surmounted by pine cone finials. The vases' design is attributed to the late 18th century, French clockmaker Martin Baffert. Baffert worked with a number of Parisian bronziers including Jean-Nicholas Fremont, Nicolas-Guillaume Jourdan and Francois-Robert Leguel, who assisted in the creation of his designs. This pair of vases is very similar to another pair of vases which Baffert designed, which form part of a clock garniture currently in the Rothschild collection at Waddesdon Manor. The Rothschild vases...

90s French style crystal vase cup

A Pair 19th Century Louis XVI Style Royal Rouge Marble and Bronze Cassolette Urns. Measure: 5" W x 3.5" D x 12" H

A Very Large 19th Century French Baccarat Opaline Crystal Vase with Enameled Putti and Floral Decoration. The amphora form vase is beautifully hand-enam...

Vibrant and finely detailed, this mid-century Bohemian cut-to-clear crystal compote showcases the exceptional artistry of Czech glassmakers. The striking emerald green overlay is exp...

This item expresses a specific rawness. There is no need for precise execution or the desire to appear sophisticated. It is simple, self-evident, and direct. It is made out of basic ...

A Massive Pair of French Empire Style Gilt Bronze-Mounted Malachite Urns, C.1950. Each with Berainesque gilt bronze tracery cast everted rim above a ves...

Fine handcut crystal grand rochester perfume flacon. Materials: Fine handcut crystal. Dimensions: D 9 x W 27.8 x H32 cm. Weight: 3.68 kg. Reflec...

Crystal Liquor Decanter from the Interwar Period with Bohemian cut We present you a crystal decanter from the Interwar Period. This item is i...

An impressive and large scale pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Breche Violette marble and Ormolu urns, in the manner of Linke. Each stunning urn is raised by a thick stepped...

Small post-modern Italian marble vase, circa 1980s. The vase is primarily a dark green in color, but has black and grey veining throughout. The vase is in very good vintage condition...

Luxury at its finest, a rarely seen Martin Benito fine and heavy green cut to clear centre piece bowl, mouth-blown, hand-cut crystal and gilt bronze doré mount of swans and Baroque s...

Pair of ormolu mounted marble vases with ornate gilt bronze leafing and figural mounts framing the urns. France, 19th century. Measures: 20-1/2 in. (52cm) height. NMA Inv. 454

Pair of Chinese cinnabar covered ginger jars decorated with carved figural landscapes Late Qing dynasty Measures: H 8 in. (20.3 cm).

This is an Art Deco Czechoslovakian Pair of Cut Crystal Scent/Perfume Bottles. It depicts two elongated cut crystal overlay glass bottles, one clear/red and the other one, clear/gree...

Plantpot in carved Monterrey black marble. Handmade in Mexico. Production time: 6-8 weeks for items without marble / 13-14 weeks for marble pieces. Shipping +10 additional business ...

Unique set of concrete sculptures by Swiss architect Willy Guhl. Concrete vases/planters rarely seen. Cool sculptural piece for indoors or outside. Great standalone piece of art. Gre...

A phenomenal pair of 19th century french white marble vases with quality gilt bronze ormolu mounts including a beaded rim to base, acanthus leaf supports, artfully crafted foliate an...

A beautiful antique signed Baccarat vase in opalescent crystal, showcasing an intricate snake motif that winds around the cylindrical neck of the vase. The foot of the vase is unique...

An outstanding and high quality Italian 19th century neo-classical st. Imperial Porphyry and ormolu urn. The exceptional solid Porphyry urn is raised by a square ormolu base with a r...

Meadow Spring is as colorful and lively as a flower meadow that comes to life during the first sunny days of spring. During the production the vases are rolled in crushed pieces of c...

Crackle and thunder – a magical wonder! At Kosta Boda, we marvel at beautifully preserved cracks in glass. The clear glass vase from the Crackle collection has an expressive, sculptural exterior created using an old handicraft technique where the hot glass...

The low Limelight vase has a collar that perfectly frames and highlights any bouquet, and the shape of the vase makes it ideal for top-heavy flowers. Like all the items in the Limeli...

Crackle and thunder – a magical wonder! At Kosta Boda, we marvel at beautifully preserved cracks in glass. The vase in circular glass from the Crackle collection has an expressive, s...

This Art Deco era amber cut crystal and enameled 'spa glass' beaker or small vase is unsigned but presumed to have been made in Bohemia in circa 1920. The gl...

Meadow Winter is like a warm embrace, perfect for creating flower arrangements like a small meadow frozen in time. During the production the vases are rolled in crushed pieces of whi...

A very impressive pair of Classical 19th Century French gilded ormolu urns. Each with two-headed Janus finials, the sides with boar's masks and bands of shells, oak leaves and Greek ...

Bouteille Robert Picault en céramique française, reconnue pour sa qualité artisanale et son design unique, issue de la magnifique région de la Côte d'Azur dans les années 1950. Cet e...

Amber hand-cut and hand-polished crystal vase. The piece is firmly attributed to Josef Hoffmann for Moser & Söhne, and signed Moser, circa the 1...

A fine pair of French 19th century Rouge-Royal marble and figural gilt bronze-mounted flambeaux urns surmounted with four ormolu figures of dolphins supporting the center urn with th...

A very fine pair of Antique Bohemian double overlay, White to Cranberry cut Crystal Lusters / Girondles, Portes Ananas, Candle Holders . circular body in cranberry frosted glass wit...

A very fine and monumental pair of antique French Louis XVI doré bronze and white carrara marble covered vases with ram’s heads and serpentine handles, attributed to Henry Dasson. Th...

This pair of Dore' bronze mounted French Empire verdi marble cassolettes, dating to the early 19th century, represents the pinnacle of French Empire style and craftsmanship. The luxu...

Val Saint Lambert crystal vase cut-to-clear, 1950s by Val Saint-Lambert. Color: vsl Clair double Aurore? And popularly called orange Beautiful Val Saint-Lambert hexagonal crystal v...

A very fine pair of antique roman porphyry, Grand Tour period hand carved lidded vases. These are a fabulous and quite decorative pair of porphyry lidde...

Handsome patinated brass urn converted into a lamp. Four laurel trees and ten different male and female figures, all in classical dress, in circle the urn which includes a pedestal o...

1894 polished Italian marble Minimalist tapered vase/wine cooler with earth tone and black veining Polished on interior.

Sterling silver vase holder, completely handmade in Florence, Italy in the artisan silversmith workshop of Silver Fashion Silvan, The shape of the body is very rounded, hand-worked w...

1960s Raymor Travertine Stone Vase Natural stone vase is the perfect addition to any decor modern or traditional

Large Art Deco clear and frosted crystal glass perfume bottle, beautifully high relief engraved with elegant motifs, wreaths and bows, France, ...

The Pair of 2 Italian Decorative Black Vases from the 1960s is a set of elegant vases with a sleek black finish, originating from Italy. These vases showcase the artistic flair of th...

The low Limelight vase has a collar that perfectly frames and highlights any bouquet, and the shape of the vase makes it ideal for top-heavy flowers. Like all the items in the Limeli...

Italian 1980s Post Modern Vase in Alabaster Attributed to Alessandro Mendini Italy 1980s

Meadow Winter is like a warm embrace, perfect for creating flower arrangements like a small meadow frozen in time. During the production the vases are rolled in crushed pieces of whi...

A sensational and extremely high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Belle Époque period white Carrara marble and ormolu urns. Each urn is raised by three graceful foli...

Crackle and thunder – a magical wonder! At Kosta Boda, we marvel at beautifully preserved cracks in glass. The bowl in circular glass from the Crackle collection has an expressive, s...

This freeform cup is made of colored crystal. This is a Scandinavian work, signed, circa 1970.

Before describing the object under consideration, we must make an important clarification; the artifact, one of many that we will publish over time, is part of the museum collection of a historic Florentine crystal grinder that unfortunately closed recently. It is the Marcello Galgani & Sons company, whose completely manual and artisanal work has not withstood the disproportionate advance of mass-produced mechanical processes! Marcello Galgani began his craft as a grinder and restorer in 1960; as the years went by, Marcello mastered and became familiar with particular techniques and shapes, resulting in the production of objects that manage to retain the freshness of grinding and engraving, the warmth and softness of light, and the inimitable flavor of unique artifacts. After several years, his son Lorenzo, who grew up among crystals, also entered the business and immediately became passionate about this ancient craft with skill and ability. Stimulated by the aesthetic sense of the past, father and son, set up a workshop in which the shapes they researched and created themselves are mouth-blown by traditional Tuscan glassmakers in Empoli, then ground and engraved using ancient sixteenth-century techniques, with motifs born from the Galgani's inexhaustible imagination or culturally inspired by designs of objects seen and studied in Florentine museums (Uffizi, Galleria Palatina, Museo degli Argenti, etc.). Marcello and Lorenzo Galgani were also Masters in the difficult art of restoration, bringing rare and precious objects back to life. As mentioned the company recently closed and disposed of all its last production, and only Marcello's old private museum collection remained, which includes unique and special objects created over time, a collection that the craftsman made available to us for a planned sale. All of the objects were made entirely by hand with old grinding wheels, but there were mainly two tools that allowed the creation of masterpieces: the right hand and the left hand of the master craftsman. Ancient glassmaking techniques were used for all the ground and engraved products: first, the object was ground with an emery wheel fed continuously by a jet of abrasive sand and water, then re-polished with a very fine-grained sandstone wheel also fed with water; the engravings were done freehand using as many as 10-15 small stone wheels for each design (flowers, branches, animals, etc. ); then the object was polished and shined; we must make, at this point, an important clarification on these last two operations: towards the end of the 1960s acid crystal polishing was devised, the object was immersed and rotated in a solution of sulfuric acid, fluoridic acid and water and in a short time all the defects left by the previous processes were eliminated, it was a fast, industrial operation that allowed to lower costs considerably, with discrete but not excellent results. But for Galgani's products polishing is done with a cork bark wheel wet with water and pumice, to make the surfaces more transparent, and finally polishing was achieved with a felt wheel wet with a paste of water, iron oxide, and cerium oxide. This series of processes takes an average of two days of work( sometimes much longer) for each object, each engraving or grinding is the result of the creative inventiveness of the two artisans, inventiveness that transforms crystal into reality material of the highest aesthetic value and inestimable value. All the items in the entire collection have never been used; they were part of the exhibition. Large crystal vase with a black base; the decorations, purely Art Noveau, represent graceful butterflies and dragonflies in a peaceful lake landscape. The object is "one-of-a-kind" signed by the Master; it was created in Marcello Galgani's workshop in 1982 and made with the techniques (grinding, engraving, and polishing) we explained in the description; for the shape, the Master was inspired by a vase found in a painting, preserved in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence by the 16th-century painter Jacopo Ligozzi...

A Magnificent Rare 19th Century Gorgeous Cranberry to Clear Crystal Floral Flower Vase Attributed to Baccarat. Magnificently done in Red to Clear. STAMPED FRANCE ON BOTTOM!! A Master...