Baroque Vases and Vessels

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

A rare Japanese late 17th-early 18th century Imari vase of beaker-type, porcelain of elongated ovoid shape with flaring neck, painted in the Im...

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

A Fine Pair of Antique green marble and gilt-bronze mounted vases in Louis XVI Style . Date: circa 1880 Dimension: 22 in x 11 in.

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...

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...

Amazing Antique Italian large lidded cassolet vase 19th century In green marble with a beautiful frame in decorated bronze (including children and garlands) - height: 66 cm Very goo...

Delft Vases Dutch tinglazed pottery polychrome decor. The set contains 1 covered baluster vase and two trumpet / beaker vases. Origin: The Netherlands 1940s Colours; Green, Iron re...

Antique English Pewter Tankards, 18th century. Set of 4. Highly decorative set of four English jugs or tankards with perfect authentic pewter color and se...

This vase embodies a raw, punk sensibility translated into refined stoneware craftsmanship. The cylindrical body is hand-built in glazed stoneware, its surface treated with a drawn, ...

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...

Highly decorated polychrome Delft knob vases by Royal Tichelaar, Friesland, the Netherlands. Bring timeless European charm to your space with this beautiful pair knob vases with an o...

A rare and collectible example of Dutch Delftware craftsmanship, this tobacconist jar bears the inscription "St. Omer" within an ornate cobalt-blue cartouche framed by Baroque scroll...

Caltagirone ceramic amphora with satyr mask, mid-19th century.

A fine pair of 19th century Italian carved wood urns, beautifully decorated in a striking polychrome finish. The bodies feature a rich faux-marble paint in shades of deep green, acce...

1890 Terracotta Amphora Vase or Jar with handle with metal support

Antique Boch Belgium Delft Vase converted in its early days into a Clock . An unique striking and decorative antique Delft vase clock in the traditional blue and white palette, richly painted in the early Chinese Kangxi style. The decoration features elegant Chinese figures, birds, floral motifs, and numerous auspicious symbols, reflecting the strong influence of Chinese export porcelain on Dutch Delftware. The figural scene is particularly evocative of the celebrated Chinese drama Romance of the Western Chamber (Xixiangji), written by Wang Shifu during the Yuan Dynasty. The lively composition, combined with the intricate ornamental details, creates a captivating display piece that exemplifies the artistic exchange between East and West. The vase is of attractive octagonal form and is surmounted by a matching cover crowned with a finely modelled Foo dog finial. Dimensions Height (including cover): 19.7 in - 50 cm Diameter: 10.2in - 26 cm Note: The vases displayed are just for an impression and not included in the sale. Condition The clock movement is currently in working condition and is supplied with its winding key. As is common with antique clocks, a professional inspection and adjustment by a clockmaker is recommended after shipping, as transport may affect the movement and a revision may be required. An impressive decorative and collectible Delft clock...

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...

During the Baroque period, Dutch Delftware reached the height of its popularity, celebrated for transforming humble earthenware into decorative objects of remarkable presence and ref...

This elegant vase was produced by Richard Ginori porcelain manufacturer in Doccia, Italy, in the 1730 Not easy to find this model so fine and elegant with its country flowers in pin...

This exquisite set of four mid-20th century Dutch Delft vases showcases the timeless beauty of blue and white pottery. Each vase features a graceful silhouette with wide lips, long n...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

Pair of Italian bronze urns with flame finials. Possibly made originally for and altar, these unusual urns will always keep the fire burning! G...

Antique Swedish Pewter Tankards, 18th century. Set of 3. Highly decorative set of three Nordic jugs or tankards with perfect authentic pewter color and several markings. All three ...

Large Pitcher German, circa 1893. Ceramic with embossed decoration depicting putti and vegetal motifs. Marked on the base. Minor flaws. Dimensions: Height: 53 cm. Good condition.

19th century Spanish stoneware terracotta jug or pot with handle.

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...

Antique German Von Schierholz Porcelain Figurine design on late XIX Century German porcelain cherub centerpiece. Beautifully detailed with floral accents, and cherubs , it comes in two pieces , the bowl at the top set on the base as shown in the photos. A stunning Rococo style statement piece. It will add enchanting charm to your home.. Hallmarked on the bottom as shown in the last photograph, it is Von Schierholz Plaue...

Mid 20th century English silver hanging label for a brandy bottle or decanter. Shown with the head of Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of the grape-harvest, wine making...

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 ...

Large size cast Bronze with high detailing Champagne bucket with Greek gods of wine and fertility on the sides. High polished lost wax bronze casting with a...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

A striking late 18th century pottery cachepot in blue and white, flanked to each side by a face, (on one side the features of the face are completely gone) wonderful shape and size o...

A wonderful pair of European Baroque style 800 sterling silver bud vases.

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...

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...

19th Century Italian Faience Floral Decorated Apothecary Jars. Each with applied floral finials. both with latin inscription depicting the type of medicine contained in each jar. One...

These handcrafted, artisan-made vessels from France, dating from the mid-century to the late 20th century, are crafted from two distinct wood tones that create a striking striped eff...

Majestic majolica Amphora vase, with a height of 183 cm (72 in) and a diameter of 52 cm (20,5 in): a unique piece, entirely handmade and hand-painted in Gubbio, Central Italy, in 1995. Its surface is decorated with a splendid and detailed reproduction of the famous "The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt", painted by Peter Paul Ruben's (1615). The body of the vase shows remarkable technical capabilities, given its size and complexity. The amphora is divided into three parts: the base, the central body and the neck. The rarity of majolica artworks of this size lies in the technical difficulty of managing the entire creation process given the large size, both for the making of the terracotta artifact and the subsequent decorating phase. During the first firing of the clay biscuit the risk of breakage is very high and also during the second firing of the color majolica hides many pitfalls, this explains the rarity of artworks of this size, the difficulty of the decorations and consequently their value. Description of the reproduction painted : Peter Paul Rubens created the canvas oil painting entitled The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt between 1615–16. The hunt takes place on the banks of the Nile, as indicated by a palm tree in the background. As hippopotami and crocodiles were considered dangerous nuisances, their destruction was a duty performed by noblemen. The hunting party comprises three men in orientalizing costume—mounted on Arabian horses, who hunt with lance and sword—and two valets clad in roughly-hewn jerkins—one of whom has been killed by one of the beasts. The enraged hippopotamus tramples the crocodile, as both are attacked by the hunters and hounds...

The carafe or vase by the famous French designer Vincent Darré is a true work of art that evokes the enchantment of a fairy tale. The result of an ephemeral collaboration with Monopr...

PAIR OF JARS Austrian, circa 1863. Ceramic with unglazed polychrome relief decoration depicting felines and floral motifs. Dated on the base. Minor defects. Dimensions: Height: 43 c...

Tall vintage Italian ceramic apothecary jar. Has words 'Sulph Comu' on front. Floral and bow motif in colors of blue, yellow and green on off wh...

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 silvered copper and wrought iron Lavabo, Spanish circa 1780 Height: 78.5 cm Diameter: 40 cm. Provenance: Private Australian Collection acquired in 1960s.395

Two Pharmacy Sleeves in Earthenware Italy 18th century Blue decoration with numbered cartouches 46 and 55. Old restorations and collages. Height: 25 cm.

A set of handblown early 18th century Oil and Vinegar Flacons. Following the French Court etiquette rules and a taste for luxury spreaded around Europe in the 18th century. Eating be...

PAIR OF VASES Italian, 19th-century porcelain vases, with polychrome and gilded decoration depicting floral motifs, featuring a central vase with a male figure and a floral arrangem...

Prächtige, reich floral geschmückte Korbschale der KPM Berlin, gerfertigt nach 1870. 6 der 12 aufgesetzten Blüten weisen kleine Beschädigungen auf, ansonsten unbeschädigt.

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

19th century Dutch patinated copper jardiniere in the Baroque style.

Pair of amphorae in 800 silver and 24% crystal. The elegant 18th century style of the amphorae makes them suitable for a classic style home with prestigious and refined furnishings. ...

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

Large solid silver vase. Of large dimensions, this vase was made entirely by hand in a revisited baroque style. The base is very wide where embossments and hand engravings have been ...