Hand-Crafted Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières

Elegant silver jardinière in elliptical basic form on four lion paw feet with volute attachment, straight vertical wall with regular openings in the form of rhythmically staggered co...

A sliver, vintage Mid-Century Modern Italian pair of tall garden planters made of handcrafted metal, pewter designed by Piero Figura and produced ...

Round Flower Cachepot in Solid Sterling Silver. Made entirely by hand, it has been finely embossed and chiseled on the central body giving it the design of a rough or rock wall. This...

Representative elegant silver jardinière on oval, fluted stepped base, bordered by palmette bands, on top arranged in a lozenge four slender, fluted columns with Corinthian-like fanc...

Solid silver vessel in an oval basic form with a wide, bulbous body, offset, domed, round base with hump decoration and palmette decorative strip on the outside of the base ring, hump decoration in the lower half of the vessel body in one step, upper half of the vessel smooth and with a slightly curved edge with raised panels merging in the middle, palmette decorative strip running around the upper edge, in the area of the gradation two raised, widening bundles of branches on the sides, crowned by swan...

Solid 925 sterling silver smooth round shape flower box with base. The perforated lid has a knob in fusion with blackberry and leaf, On the edge of the bowl it is decorated with blackberries and leaves made in silver casting. The object being perforated on the lid, in addition to a planter, can be used as an elegant diffuser of essences Italian silverware...

This Sterling Silver essence holder box was handmade in Milan - Italy by Vavassori silverware. The body of the box is shaped, having a larger upper part and slopes towards the base ...

Large Asian Burmese brass ceremonial bowl with silver and copper inlaid with the ten Hindu Avatars of Vishnu. Fine example of Tanjore work, this brass bowl that has been overlaid with alternating copper and silver chased plaques, with high quality in detail executed in mixed metal repoussé with contrasting patination, showing Hindu deities. The base is engraved with a lotus flower motif. (This type of work is known as Tanjore work, after the south Indian city where much of this work was executed.) The depictions on the main plaques are believed to relate to those seen carved in relief on rock on the façade off the Great Temple (Brihadisvara) in Tanjore. A southern Indian magnificent silver and copper inlaid vase, 19th century Tapered and chased body made of copper inlaid with beaded bands and with the ten avatars of Vishnu: 1. Matsya (the fish) 2. Koorma (the tortoise) 3. Varaha (the boar) 4. Narasimha (the human-lion – shown on this bowl as a lion-man figure about to devour a human victim.) 5. Vamana (the dwarf) 6. Parasurama (the angry man – presented on this bowl as a figure with an axe, a bow and an arrow.) 7. Rama (the perfect man, king of Ayodha) 8. Krishna (the divine statesman – shown here as Krishna on a cobra throne...