Pair of 19th Century Old Paris Porcelain Urns, Signed L. Brochart

This Grand Tour bronze model of the Medici vase is beautifully cast and patinated. It features a deep frieze with a mythological bas-relief, the fluted loop handles rise from sayers'...

This finely detailed gilt bronze compote features a border of vintage motif including grapes and grape leaves. The compote is mounted on a verde antique marble base.

The handsome pair of apple green hand painted porcelain urns and covers feature hunting scenes on one side, and floral bouquets on the other.

This large cut crystal cornucopia vase terminates in a ram's head form gilt bronze mount, and is set on a black marble base.

This pair of neoclassical rython form garnitures are well detailed and finely cut.

This handsome pair of urns, or cachepots are are decorated with gilt Classical motifs including musical trophies and paw feet.

Pair of French Old Paris unmarked urns are made of hard paste porcelain with polychrome and gold leaf. The pedestal bases are attached with an iron bolt. These classical form urns ar...

France, circa 1860 A pair of mid ninetieth century urns decorated with maritime scenes, painted with ships and palm trees in a fantasy landscape, with stylised handles and bearded m...

Large pair of old Paris Urns . Great decoration, with some repairs

A fine pair of antique French urns in 'Porcelain de Paris', and dating from the early 19th century. These sensational vases are decorated w...

A most elegant pair of French 19th century neo-classical st. Porcelain de Paris urns. Each urn is raised by a square base below an elegant mottled socle shaped pedestal. The bodies d...

A museum quality early 19th century Paris porcelain urn. The twin handled vase sits on a rectangular porcelain base (modelled as part of the vase), which is decorated on all four sides with finely painted scenes titled 'Gene de Corrinte', 'Gene de Mytilene', 'Gene de Sparte', and 'Gene de Chiu' in reference to various Greek city states. The ovoid body of the vase is richly decorated with Greek key and stylized acanthus designs over and below a large gilt framed oval cameo of Athena on one side and a similar cameo on the other side bearing an undecipherable name. The overall background colour scheme of the vase is dark red/burgundy and dark emerald green, two colours which were more commonly used by the Dagoty factory in Paris than other porcelain manufacturing firms at the time. The vase is unsigned. Note: Pierre Louis Dagoty's porcelain was characterized by the use of vivid colours and the thick application of burnished gold leaf. He borrowed from the repertoire of Neoclassical ornament but his designs also included Egyptian and Chinoiseries motifs. Dagoty's elegant ceramics won him the patronage of Empress Joséphine. At the height of production, in 1807, he employed over a hundred workers, and exported his wares to Russia. After the fall of the First French Empire in 1814, manufacture continued under the Duchesse d'Angoulême, the only surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Between 1816 and 1820, Dagoty worked in partnership with François Maurice Honoré. In 1817. Dagoty and Honoré received a commission from President James Monroe...