Striking, Sevres , Lidded Urns

Pair of beautifully hand carved alabaster urns with removable lids and outer rims to create an open vessel.

A hand carved rouge marble Neoclassical shaped urn.

This is a pair of Sevres hand painted porcelain turquoise lidded urns. Both of them are depicting in the front a sea shore fishermen scenes. In one, a group of fishermen are preparing a sailboat and in the other one, they are pulling the net. The back are adorned with some gilt fishing tools and baskets with foliages. Both scenes are golden framed with scrolls of acanthus and flowers beside them. Gilt white concave long oval shaped rings alternated with gilt foliages and shamrocks decorate the necks of the urns. The same pattern are repeated in the lids, but no white color in the center. The bell shaped lids ended with pinecones finials. A mix of scrolls and Greek keys serve as handles. The round bases are also decorated with gilt foliages. The Sevres hallmark appears in the lids and below the bases. One of the urn’s painting...

This large cobalt blue lidded vase was made by the Sevres pottery factory of France and designed by artist Paul Milet in circa 1935. This heavy ceramic urn is done in a brushed deep cobalt blue over turquoise glaze with a matching handled lid. The bottom is clearly marked "PM Sevres...