French Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières

Beautiful asymmetric porcelain centrepiece decorated with cupids and swan heads at both sides raised on a single oval platform.     

A late 19th century Sèvres style parcel-gilt porcelain jardinière Finely painted with numerous colored flowers with green and gold trim, gilt ram heads on either side. In late ...

Exceptional Chinese porcelain planters circa 1925 Original pedestals. Porcelain measures: Height: 26 cm. Diameter: 63 cm. Total height: 139 cm.

A pair of Porcelain de Paris cachepots planters from the 19th century, with hand-painted bird and floral motifs, and gilt accents. Created in France...

Hands-free painted porcelain vase decorated with a chinoiserie scene with flowers and butterflies in orange. Platinum rimmed. A porcelain dish with the same decor can be ordered. Abo...

Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain orange-ground Botanical Campana-Form Vase, circa 1840. The Chamberlain Worcester Porcelain vase is of campana-form with an orange ground body over...

An important and extremely large pair of Magenta Ground Vienna Porcelain Exhibition vases. Austrian, circa 1900. Each vase with blue underglazed ‘Beehive’ mark to interior of neck. Each vase is finely painted with classical scenes to the front and allegorical scenes to the back on a rich magenta ground with gilt foliate decoration. The vases are mounted by extraordinary gilt handles headed by winged female masks to the sides and grotesque masks to the shoulders. The spreading necks decorated with Greek key decoration are surmounted by domed covers and the vases are raised on baluster form supports put down on drum bases finely painted with panels stylised arabesque. The Vienna Porcelain Manufactory was founded in 1718 only eight years after Johann Friedrich Bottger and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus had succeeded in unearthing the secret of Porcelain Manufacture for August the Strong, Elector of Saxony. On May 25, 1718, Emperor Karl VI signed a "special privilege" awarding Claudius Innocentius du Paquier the exclusive right to produce porcelain in the Austrian crown lands. Production being almost exclusively for the imperial household and the court nobility. During the rococo era, Empress Maria Theresia placed the company under imperial ownership and it was during this period that the manufactory began to produce the famous rococo genre scenes after Watteau. Under the management of Conrad Sorgel von Sorgenthal, the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory achieved an international reputation for its neo-classical style. After the wars with France brought the manufactory to the brink of ruin, the Vienna Congress at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century gave porcelain from Vienna a renewed upswing. Many important personalities of the time, including Czar Alexander I of Russia...

Hands-free painted porcelain vase with a chinoiserie design with flowers and butterflies all around. Lined with a green line and rimmed with a platinum frame . Hand-painted in Bavari...

Large Chinese hand painted porcelain jardinière urn and charger Porcelain is decorated with beautiful scenes of cranes, birds, flowers and acanthus leaves. Colors are green, red, ...

Saxe porcelain jardinière. Germany, late 19th century.

Gilt Chinoiserie cachepot. Richly gilt painted porcelain footed planter with scrolled rocaille handles centering front and back charcoal painted orien...

A rare, large-scale Nymphenburg porcelain trumpet form flower vase. With crisp, clean lines that harken back to the Biedermeier period and dovetail perfectly with the aesthetic o...