Painted Vases and Vessels

Graceful in form and richly detailed, this pair of Boch Frères Keramis lidded urns has remained in a private collection for over a century, preserving both their integrity and their ...

19th Century bronze mounted pair porcelain decorative urns with exterior hand painted romantic scene and floral details. Artist signature "P.Philippot". Each urn is in great antique ...

Pair Chinese Famille rose with turquoise ground vases C.1940. Enamelled in famille rose palette with large blooms borne around a border of curling ...

Beautiful petite vintage midcentury modern European vessel or vase by an unknown studio pottery maker with a black, white and taupe coloured pattern of stripes. Beautiful, elegant a...

French Chinoiserie Faience vase. Purple, blue, green and yellow baluster vase with gilding and diapering in the chinoiserie style with bugs and butt...

These bronze-mounted Sèvres porcelain urns are monumental in both size and quality and feature the renowned manufactory’s signature deep cobalt blue glaz...

Outstanding Richard Ginori porcelain centerpiece compote, circa 19th Century. This rare and whimsical antique compote is hand painted with a "Bacchanalian" motif and a polychrome gla...

Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Dragonfly and Thistles Soliflore (Bud Vase) Multi-Color Enamel over Clear Art Glass Nancy, France Circa 1900 DIMENSIONS Height: 3.25 inches Max. Diameter: 2.75 inches Opening Diameter: 0.75 inches MARKINGS Signed in enamel at the base, bearing the mark “E. Gallé de Nancy.” MATERIALS Multi-color enamel on clear art glass CONDITION Excellent condition, with no chips, cracks, or restorations. ABOUT “The aim of my work is the study of nature, the love of nature's art and the need to express what one feels in one's heart.” – Emile Gallé A rare and exquisite cabinet-sized soliflore by Émile Gallé, exemplifying the highest artistic standards of early French Art Nouveau. The vase displays an exceptional and sculpturally sophisticated form—its body conceived as a sphere discreetly contained within a smaller cube—resulting in sensuously rounded, perfectly balanced contours that are both visually arresting and elegantly understated. The clear glass body is decorated with finely rendered, hand-applied enamels depicting a dragonfly in flight among mountain grasses and thistles—a lyrical theme central to Gallé’s celebration of the natural world. The composition is executed with subtle tonal gradations and refined brushwork, capturing both the delicate movement and the ephemeral beauty of the scene. A museum-quality example, notable for its rare form, poetic decoration, and intimate scale. A superb addition to any serious Art Nouveau or Gallé collection. ABOUT ARTIST Émile Gallé Gallé (French, 1846 – 1904) Emile Galle was a French glass and ceramic designer who combined art and botany. Most of his glass vases are created in Art Nouveau style. Born on May 4, 1846 in Nancy, France, Émile Gallé seemed destined for a career in glassmaking. Nancy was well-established for its glass artistry, and his father, Charles Gallé was an established faïence (ceramic) and glassmaker with his own successful manufactory, the Maison Gallé-Reinemer. It would be here under the guidance of his father that the young Emile began to learn the art of glassmaking while simultaneously indulging his academic interests in philosophy, botany and chemistry. In 1867, Gallé joined his father working full-time at the Maison. Gallé's glasswork, even at its earliest stages, was heavily influenced by nature, with his very first pieces incorporating enameled floral motifs painted upon clear glass. He was an avid botanist his entire life, collecting plants, flowers, and insects from which to study and draw inspiration. He was even elected Secretary-General for Nancy's Société centrale d'horticulture. Gallé traveled throughout Europe studying works at museums and private institutions, gaining insight from ancient glass antiquities to Japonesque masterpieces, and everything in between. It would be Gallé’s trip to the British Museum in 1871 that would alter the course of his art career. Enamored by the famed ancient Roman cameo glass...

19th Century hand painted gilt gold design porcelain with footed bronze mounted decorative centerpiece with side handles. The centerpiece is in great condition. Minor wear consistent...

ANTIQUE DELFT POTTERY VASE /JAR A hugely decorative octagonal tin glazed earthenware vase with repeated floral and foliate decoration in cobalt blue. Dating from the 18th Century...

Daum Nancy Enamelled and Acid-Etched Glass Vase – “Dutch Landscape” France 1896 signature. An exquisite example of late 19th-century French Art Nouveau glassmaking, this rare Daum ...

Double snake-handled vase in baluster form on mounted funnel-shaped base, handles raised at the sides in the form of coiled snake pairs, white ground, extensive cobalt-blue backgroun...

Italian ceramic decorative bottle / single-flower vase by Bruno Gambone (circa 1990s). This smaller sculptural work consists of a rectangular body with soft, curvy shoulders leading ...

The dark blue background of the porcelain vases stand on a gilded carved octagonal pedestal. The base is decorated with gilt scrolls of acanthus leaves and foliage. The front center ...

An 18th Century German, or possibly Bohemian, Clear Glass Bottle. Flattened octagonal shape. Hand decorated with blue, white and brown flowers and a pink bird on the front. 14cm / ...

An unusually tall (15.5) and bright ceramic vase from one of the commercial potteries where Bauhaus or other related schools graduates to design a...

This elegant pair of mid-20th-century decorative garniture vases by renowned maker Jacob Petit showcases the timeless beauty of French porcelain. Each vase is crafted in a unique cor...

Infuse your home with playful elegance using the Hand-Painted Ceramic Menagerie Vase. This charming vase features an enchanting design of a monkey gracefully climbing a palm tree, br...

Pair of Chinese Export Porcelain American* Market Landscape Vases & Covers China, Circa 1800 * American/ European Market, considered to the Chinese to be the same market, by many. it's been suggested the front and back vignettes of houses in landscape on this model, were painted from a European print the Chinese porcelain workshops acquired. A extraordinary find, a pair of Chinese Export Porcelain American/ European Market painted in sepia, colors and gilt vases & covers, with twelve (12) placed American/ European and Chinese motif vignettes. Each vase complete with its original cover/ lid with gilt recumbent foo-dog, with two front and back oval vignettes of a Chinese tree in landscape. Each of the baluster vases, exquisitely hand-painted front and back with a similar American/ European topographical view of country houses with trees landscape. (The Chinese porcelain workshops probably copied these scenes from a European print) Surrounded by an elaborate painted and enameled trellis with vines and leaves. Some traces worn, additional gilt decoration is evident. Both sides of the vases are decorated with an upper elongated cartouche painted...

A beautiful rectangular Art Deco stoneware box / tea caddy with 'Carrara' glaze and gold details. Made by Wilhelm Kåge at Gustavsberg Studio in Sweden, 1940s. Good original conditi...

This tall, antique "Aiguiere" (ewer) was sculpted in Rouen, France, circa 1860. This delicate, ornate ceramic pitcher has one large handle, a sloped spout, four feet and an elegant s...

A lovely vintage Italian black and gold toleware monteith footed cachepot, circa 1950. Signed "Italy" on reverse. This gorgeous jardiniere has a fine hand painted gilt floral design ...

Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar from the Majiayao Culture, specifically the Machang phase, in northwest China, and dating back roughly 4000 yea...

Gorgeous vase in the "Grazia" serie by Stig Lindberg. In a silk-matte white glaze with silver colored flower motif it was designed in the Gustavsberg Studio in the late 1960's. Overa...

Art Déco belgian glazed pottery/ceramic Charles Catteau-like vase by Boch Freres Keramis By: Boch Freres Keramis, Charles Catteau (in the style of) Material: ceramic, pottery, paint...

An 18th Century French Milk Glass, attributed to Bernard Perrot's Orleans workshop. Hand decorated opaline glass with red, blue and green flowers and leaves. With a French motto tran...

A rare graduated set of four Italian Majolica tin-glazed (lead glaze with a bit of tin oxide added) earthenware jugs, hand-painted with metal oxide enamel. Caltagirone, Sicily, circa...

A striking Bohemian clear-glass vase featuring hand-painted black enamel birds accented in gold, set within an intricate network of scrolling tendrils and decorative medallions. The ...

An elegant pair of cylindrical sleeve-form vases in fine cream-glazed faience, exquisitely hand-painted with vibrant exotic birds perched amid lush foliage. The detailed polychrome d...

Pair of Sèvres Style Gilt bronze Mounted Porcelain Covered Potpourri Urns Each of ovoid form, painted with an oval reserve of figures in a garden, against a turquoise "bleu céleste" ...

Fantastic simple and elegant designer Art Glass vase by Ulrica Hydman-Valliens for Kosta Boda. Open Minds is the vases name as it was blown in different sizes, this example being a t...

This is a Set of Carl Thieme Potschappel Porcelain Pair of Urns and Centerpiece Bowl. It depicts a pair of lidded potpourri urns hand painted w...

A blue ground pilgrim flask-shaped vase by famed English designer Christopher Dresser for Minton, circa 1870s. The foliage motif was most likely hand-painted by William Mussill...

Add a refined accent to a tabletop or vignette with this elegant antique crystal bud vase, crafted in Belgium circa 1960 by the renowned Val Saint Lambert. The piece is expertly cut ...

Unique contemporary Japanese dimpled decorative porcelain plate, an elegant piece gilded and hand painted by highly acclaimed porcelain artist of Japan’s Imari-Arita region. This mas...

Yuan Dynasty- style jar with pewter rim (as used in Spice Road), featuring hand-painted scenes of figures in a garden. Republic period.

Extraordinary museum quality Japanese contemporary signed decorative porcelain vase, stunningly hand painted on an elegant rectangular body in vivid hues of purple, red and gray, wit...

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

Lee Rosen for Design Technics Incised and Slip Decorated Abstract Design Vase, ca 1950s This is a gorgeous and unique Design Technics vase by Lee Rosen that features a biomorphic sh...

Exceptional Japanese contemporary decorative porcelain vase, intricately gilded and hand-painted in blue and purple on a beautifully shaped porcelain body with generous gold details,...

Originally designed by architect, designer and artistic director Guido Andlovitz in 1936 for Società Ceramica Italiana Laveno, this pair of vases are indeed the rarest of finds. The vases were manufactured in 1942, as attested to by the marking "N - 42" on the base of each vase. The gold rims and aquatic scenes that surround each vase, are unique to each piece and were painted by hand in 1943. They are both signed by the artist "Miruccia". One of the vases has the words “Anni di Guerra” (Year of War) written on the base in reference to the Second World War . Founded in Laveno in 1856 by Severino Revelli and some former employees of the "Richard" manufacturer in Milan. The "SCI" (Italian Ceramic Society) began its activity as a manufacturer of wall tiles and fine tableware. In 1883 it became a limited company and obtained its first successes at numerous national exhibitions. In 1895, Cavalier Luciano Scotti took over the company and, thanks to his intuition and his entrepreneurial skills, the factory grew substantially in a few years. In those years, some Liberty-style pieces designed by Giorgio Spertini, the author of noteworthy elegant "whiplash" creations, were created in the Laveno factory. In 1906 "SCI" presented numerous works at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Milan. Other collaborators from the beginning of the century were Silvio and Piero De Ambrosis, Felice Palucco, Giancarlo Jacopini and the brothers Marco and Luigi Raggiori. However, it was in 1923 that, under the direction of Guido Andlovitz, the company reached the peak of its fame and in 1925 was a resounding success at the 2nd Monza Biennale. Andlovitz, who collaborated with the manufacturer for almost forty years, applied to the production process the principle of seriality, a concept also put into effect by Giò Ponti at "Richard-Ginori", adopting various types of decoration which, although moulded and decal stamped, still retained an undeniable elegance. In 1924 the "Società Ceramica Revelli" became a consortium with the "SCI", the partnership would continue until 1932 and saw Franco Revelli's company marketing pottery and table porcelain on behalf of "SCI". From 1925 porcelain and crockery began to appear in the factory's catalogs. In 1927 the company was present at the 3rd Biennial of Decorative Arts in Monza. Between the end of the 1920's and the beginning of the 1930's, the decorators Giuseppe Bellorini and Daniela Ferretto began to collaborate with the "SCI". As of 1932 the company managed two factories: that of Laveno, which, with over 1300 employees, produced strong pottery, tableware and artistic ceramics and the smaller factory of Verbano, which employed about 400 people and produced, in addition to ceramics for the electrotechnical industry, excellent table porcelain. The products were marketed in the company owned stores in Rome, Genoa and Naples. This was an initiative realised by Andlovitz himself. In the mid-thirties, the decorators Ada Corsi and Ida Fonini among others, collaborated with the "SCI". From 1936 to 1940 the artistic direction of the company was entrusted to the sculptor and modeler Angelo Biancini. In 1939 about 1300 people worked in the Laveno plant and in 1951 about 2300. In the years between the two wars among the collaborators of the factory were Sirio Tofanari...

Chinese Mid-Century porcelain ginger jar in ovoid form with a waisted mouth and patterned border, painted in a blue wash scroll and foliate over a white ground with watering hole at ...

Matching Large Japanese Imari Porcelain Vases. 1880 Meiji period. Introducing an exquisite pair of Japanese Imari porcelain vases from the Meiji period, circa 1880. Standing tall at...

A fine quality 19th Century Chinese Cantonese / Rose Medallion bowl with wonderful gilded ormolu mounts. The bowl having classical hand painted scenes depicting various courtiers and...

Royal Copenhagen, vase. Slender baluster-shaped porcelain vase with a hand-painted underglaze decoration of stylised leaves and berries in muted blue-grey and brownish tones on a whi...

Royal Copenhagen, vase. Round, baluster-shaped glazed porcelain vase with hand-painted underglaze decoration of berry branches and foliage in muted blue, green, and grey tones on a l...

Humlebæk Keramik, Denmark. Vase, mid-20th century. Decorative earthenware vase with fish and seaweed motif in green and brown tones. A characteristic example of Danish mid-century st...

A pair of 18th century Italian gold leaf church altar vases decorated with fossil shells, siliquaria, and natural forming baroque pearls. The vases originally came from a church in A...

We offer for sale a splendid vase made in Italy, as attested by the signature at the base, between the 60s and 70s. made by an unknown manufacturer, this vintage vase has an unusual ...

Vase Blue Fishes Medium with all structure in porcelain, hand-painted porcelain and with solid bronze base and details.

Large Sculptural Vase "Causucanas" by Ernesto Sanchez (Signed), with abstract and sinuous shapes, the vase will furnish your home environment with style and elegance

Presenting a magnificent pair of 19th century Chinese Export Imari porcelain decorative vases, perfect for collectors and admirers of fine Asian art. Each vase showcases the exquisit...

A pair of six sided, beautifully hand-painted covered porcelain vases featuring traditional figures and flowers, trimmed with parcel gilt.

Japanese Contemporary porcelain decorative vase, extremely intricately hand painted in underglaze cobalt blue on an elegant ovoid shape porcelain body, a signed piece by widely accla...

This pair is very old from the Ching Wang Shu XIX Dynasty And the color is exquisite. They are in good condition with only A few flea bite tiny chips on ...

A very large 19th century twin handled maiolica vase in the form of a wine krater. The exquisite hand painted decoration includes two central cartouches, one depicting Bacchus and Ar...

Warp & Allan Vases, Lusitanus Home Collection, Handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by Lusitanus Home. This beautiful set includes seven waterproof ceramic vases, perfect to be disp...

Earthenware Hungarian Pottery, circa 1900s Discover the enchanting charm of this antique Hungarian Folk Art pottery, a genuine earthenware treasure th...

This demilune flower pot or bough pot for forcing springtime bulbs, is adorned with three landscape panels. Each panel, painted in pink lustre, depicts the same cottage in a pastoral setting from three different vantage points. Moulded into the top and bottom rims are acanthus leaves. Pieces in this shape, color and style have been attributed to the Hackwood company, and usually pieces like these, are not marked. William Hackwood & Son was an earthenware factory in Shelton, England, from 1818 until 1853. In addition to lustre ware...

A vibrant Italian Mid-Century Modern vase designed by Aldo Londi for Bitossi and imported by Raymor. The bottle-shaped form is finished in layered cobalt and turquoise glazes and dec...