Baroque Vases and Vessels

This fabulous handmade terracotta pot originated in the Provençal town of Biot and was used to store olive oil. The interior glaze that extends to around the rim was used to prevent ...

This fabulous handmade terracotta pot originated in the Provençal town of Biot and was used to store olive oil. In perfect condition, the photos show the pot in sunlight. These pots ...

19th Century Italian Porte Palma Altar Urn. Original brass ornate altar urn used as palm holder in the early 19th century ...

Mid-century pair of Jardiniere planters & matching tall pedestal stands by Capo di Monte Italy. Two ceramic flower pots with two matching tall ped...

A fine antique Dutch Delft vase or jar. The body decorated with cartouches of stylized peony bouquets on a latticework ground. The shoulder decorated with alternating cartouches of ...

An impressive 18th century polychrome decorated drug jar or 'Albarello'. The Albarello is of a typical waisted shape, and is decorated profusely in polychrome. The body of the jar is...

A very fine 18th century Dutch Delft pottery vase or jar. Of typical vasiform shape with medium and deep blue Chinoiserie landscape decoration, dot border to the top rim, and swag...

This pair of French stone sculptures from the early 20th century features two Médicis vases with gadroon decor on a square base. This exquisite pair of early 20th-century French ston...

An 18th century Italian apothecary jar with blue and white tin glazing and hand painted decoration depicting a hilltop village in a lush settin...

Hand-painted Meissen Porcelain centerpiece, 1860s - 1924 era. Two slight internal cracks are present as shown in the photos. Ø cm 28 Ø cm 25 h cm 10 Meissen porcelain is considere...

This fabulous handmade terracotta pot originated in the Provençal town of Biot and was used to store olive oil. In perfect condition, the photo...

A remarkable pair of two antique European tin-glazed earthenware apothecary jars. circa 1770 Originally used as medicinal pottery jars that held ointments and dry drugs at apothecar...

Gorgeous vase of lightly gray crystal glass, made with masterful skill by master glassblowers of past centuries, decorated with 3 round medallions of various garden flowers. Signed a...

Wonderful big vase with shaped round body embossed, chiselled and engraved with oak leaves. On the body are soldered melting made acorns Above the handles are placed two children. Th...

Stunning Italian gold gilt crystal vase, dating to circa 1850 if not earlier. A true artisan and visionary sculpted this work from thick, heavy glass to create the trumpet form with ...

Italian, Majolica, Modern, Palatial Jardinière or Planter, Outdoor, Italy, 1930s An enormous terracotta and porcelain oversized Jardiniere or Planter of vibrant colorful design. The...

Old tinaja of Calanda (Teruel), Spain. Made of red clay with handcrafted circular figures and four handles. A "tinaja" is an oval terracotta jar with a narrow mouth and foot, usu...

Rosenthal white and gold porcelain centerpiece, made in the 1960s Ø cm 37 Ø cm 21 h cm 14 Rosenthal is a well-known and respected German manufacturer of porcelain products. Rose...

A modern Italian Capodimonte porcelain jug from the midcentury, 1930s, with handle decorated in baroque forms. The pitcher features a col...

Old tinaja of Calanda (Teruel), Spain. Made of red clay with handcrafted semi circular figures. A "tinaja" is an oval terracotta jar with a narrow mouth and foot, usually without...

Tall antique 18th century Italian ceramic apothecary jar. Colors of blue, yellow and green on off white background.

This is a Talavera Majolica Amphora/Urn Vase. It depicts a hand painted amphora/urn with a white background showing a scene in the front of a Spaniard gentleman riding a horse and in...

The Pair, early 20th Century, with deep green color Onyx having natural cream and brown inclusions with finely chased and detailed gilt bronze handles, lid with pine cone finial and ...

A fine Dutch Delft pottery beaker form vase. By Pieter Adriaensz Kocx of De Grieksche A. With a white ground and decorated with floral motifs in reds, blues, and greens and with gi...

Pair of vintage gilded bronze stands with inlay, circa 1940 Gorgeous pair of cast bronze stands with inlay We are unsure of the material used for the inlay. The inlay is hand paint...

Cups in coconut such as this are especially uncommon and rarely appear on the world's art market. This is a very interesting piece for its fine and rich craftmenships metal silver de...

Old tinaja of Calanda (Teruel), Spain. Made of clay with handcrafted semi circular handmade ribbed around the vase This "tinaja" it´s very special for its measurements and irregula...

This is a terracotta olive jar from central Spain. It has a wonderful aged patina with chalky painted finish. It makes a great statement as a sculpture in a room on a pedestal, alone...

20th century handmade two handled vase, Spain This impressive late 20th century terracotta water jar was found in Sevilla, Spain. In excellent condition and great character, featuring the Classic "wavy line" design of particularly Fine pottery...

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 & Son 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; the decorations, in baroque style represent a series of "grotesques" The object is "a unique piece" signed by the Master, it was created in Marcello Galgani's workshop in 1983 and made with the techniques (grinding, engraving and polishing) that we explained in the description; for the shape, the Master was inspired by a vase present in a painting, preserved in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence by the sixteenth-century painter Jacopo Ligozzi...

Large baroque style sterling silver vase. The body of the vase has been masterfully embossed with shells, flowers and volutes, typical of the Baroque style. Still in the body of the ...

This is a Talavera Majolica large amphora/ urn vase. It is hand painted in the belly with a scene of a country background with a musketeer riding a horse in one side and a country ch...

This fabulous handmade terracotta pot originated in the Provençal town of Biot and was used to store olive oil. In perfect condition, the photos show the pot in sunlight. These pots ...

19th century Dutch blue and white delft vase with foliage and pheasant decoration having an elongated neck and graceful, elegant form.

Italian blue and white Della Robbia style jardinière, Provenance, Celine Dion Of large scale the two handled urn with white appliqués on a Tuscan blue background. Can be used indoors or outside. The opening diameter is 16.5" Provenance: Celine Dion's Jupiter Florida...

A very large and unique white marble mortar from the 16th century with sculpted side mascarons. Mascaron were decorative architectural element in the form of a sculpted face or head...

Rare 17th century Venetian Painted And Parcel Gilt Lavandino. A lavandino is a washbasin or washbowl which was used in a courtyard of a Venetian palazzo in the 17th and 18th centuri...

Beautiful hand engraved contemporary vase. The pattern is Baroque style. Made of crystal.

Pair of fine antique ginger jars, circa 1699-1714) with pierced and cased cartouches and hand painted figural landscapes. Each with a different scene yet maintaining the mountain, la...

From a chateau in France, these are known as 'bouquets' fashioned after 17th century Baroque style. These "corbeilles" of potted flowers and fruits remain blooming and ripe through a...

Outstanding late 19th century Italian Baroque style painted and parcel gilt carved wood and gesso planter. The elongated planter is beautifully ha...

An exquisite pair of highly decorated Royal Vienna Gilt Porcelain covered vases. Scenes of neoclassical beauties on all four sides with large paintings on the front and back, and sm...

This indigo blue and gold porcelain amphora, from the 20th century, showcases the refined craftsmanship of Retier. Standing at an impressive 63 cm tall, it features a rich cobalt gl...

Elegant pair of ormolu-mounted brèche violette marble covered urns. Each of baluster shape. The dome cover with foliate ribbon finial with cast mounts handles and berry swags above a...

A rare pair of decalcomania glass vases from Piemonte Italy 18th century. Painted in polychrome with applications in Arte Povera with floral and chinois motifs. The synomania that ...

Large cup made of red marble from Vitrolles turned foot, garnished with shells. Composition of shells including a leopard cone (conus leopardus), a horned helmet (cassis cornuta), tw...

Sourced in a sumptuous Roman villa, never before seen on the antiques market, these Italian large scale Louis XIV urn vases originally used as enormous palm holders exude royalty, a ...

Italian Polychrome Majolica Albarello, Late 17th Century.

An opulent and expressive piece by renowned Murano master Archimede Seguso, this 1950s cornucopia-shaped glass sculpture blends traditional Italian grandeur with mid-century elegance...

Very large double snake handle vase in baluster form on a mounted funnel-shaped stand, handles in the form of coiled snake pairs raised on the side, white and cobalt blue base, fine ...

Extraordinary, monumental 6' tall brass scale of Italian Origin, ca. 1700. The Baluster-form stem ending in a tripod base and having a cast brass finial featuring St, George slaying...

Louis XV-style Ormolu-Mounted and Fleur de Pêcher Marble Cassolets by Jollet & CIE Each with the stamp 'Jollet et Cie, Ave. Mon Colin A Paris' to the und...

With rectangular form frame and finely carved acanthus leaf. Original liner is tin. Provenience from Aristocratic family of Tuscany.

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

18th century Italian, blue and white Albarello, Baluster form jar with crown over double eagle design.

Rare Danish blue and white faience ink stand by Johan Ernst Pfau for Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactory, Copenhagen Denmark circa 1740. This inkwell retain with its original ink a...

This exquisite silvered bronze centerpiece or planter, attributed to renowned French metalworker Victor Saglier, is a testament to 19th-century French decorative art. The centerpiece...

A unique and finely detailed Italian 18th century Baroque st. faux Porphyry, Silver leaf, and Giltwood centerpiece. This stunning centerpiece is raised on a square faux Porphyry base...

Large baroque style sterling silver vase. The body of the vase has been masterfully embossed with shells, flowers and volutes, typical of the Baroque style. Still in the body of the ...

Hand-painted Paris porcelain centerpiece vase / cachepot, made in the 1950s Ø cm 18 h cm 14 Paris porcelain, also known as "Vieux Paris," is a type of porcelain produced in and aro...