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Urns For Sale
Charming Little Pair of Black Iron Urns
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Classic pair of diminutive black cast iron urns that make an elegant accessory.
Category
1950s American Neoclassical Vintage Urns
Materials
Iron
Stunning Sterling Silver Urn or Cup & Cover - London 1928
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1928 by Reid & Sons, this Sterling Silver Cup & Cover, stands on a square base, and features a gadroon border and chased acanthus decoration to the body and l...
Category
1920s English Regency Revival Vintage Urns
Materials
Sterling Silver
Very Large Moser Glass Decorative Vase / Piece
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Very large and beautiful Moser Enameled green paneled with gilt gold design details decorative vase / piece. The vase is in great condition. Minor shelve wear underneath. No flaws ob...
Category
1930s Czech Vintage Urns
Materials
Gold
Chinese White, Green, and Pink Floral and Rooster Design Porcelain Urn
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (early 20th century) white porcelain urn incised and painted with decorations of roosters amid blooming floral branches mixed with geometric patterned bands at the bo...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century, French, Two-Tone Painted Iron Campana Form Urns, Set of 2
Located in Dallas, TX
Place these large vases at your front or back door! Crafted in France circa 1850, the antique Campana form urns stand on a square base with a wide mouth at the top, and feature the original painted and weathered finish. The tall Medici planters...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Classical Roman Antique Urns
Materials
Iron
19th Century English Earthenware Water Dispenser for Charcoal Filter
Located in Dallas, TX
19th Century English earthenware water dispenser for charcoal filter is a marvelous example of the "there's nothing really new" axiom! Altendorf & Wrig...
Category
1890s English Arts and Crafts Antique Urns
Materials
Sandstone
Thom Lussier Ceramic Vessel #2, from the Oxidized Copper Collection
By Thom Lussier
Located in New York, NY
From Thom Lussier's Oxidized Copper Collection - a series of ceramic vessels that stand out for their rich textures and brilliant palette of copper and turquoise...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Urns
Materials
Stoneware
Extremely Large Victorian 5 Gallon Hammered Brass Copper Milk Jug / Pitcher
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A fabulous and large scale country house 5 gallon hammered copper milk jug or pitcher.
Due to the large scale, this jug/pitcher would make a fabulo...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Urns
Materials
Brass
Vintage Pair of Murano Glass Bubble Vases with Sommerso Gold, 1960s Barovier
By Barovier
Located in Villaverla, IT
Vintage pair of Murano glass bubble vases with "sommerso" gold, 1960s Barovier.
This beautiful pair of vases is an outstanding example of the best Murano glass tradition. The detail...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns
Materials
Gold
Magnificent Louis XV Style Patinated and Gilt Bronze Urn
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A magnificent large French XV rococo style patinated and gilt bronze urn. The fluted body of the urn, (almost ewer shaped) is of patinated bronze, the flutes inset at the top and bot...
Category
Late 19th Century French Rococo Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Chinese White and Pink Cherry Blossom Motif Lidded Porcelain Urns
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Chinese white porcelain urns decorated with dark pink and green-leafed cherry blossoms growing up the rounded forms, finished with red-finial topped lids and made with holes ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Monumental Sarreguemines Urn
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This impressively sized urn is marked on the bottom, “Sarreguemines/1906//H”, “Made in Germany” with the Lorraine Coat of Arms . Nicolas-Henri Jacobi along with his two partners esta...
Category
Early 1900s German Belle Époque Antique Urns
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Majolica
Lorenzo Bartolini Neo Classical Statuary Marble Snake Handled Tazza and Column
Located in London, by appointment only
This elegant marble urn was almost certainly made by Lorenzo Bartolini, who rose to prominence in the early 19th century as sculptor to Napoleon’s sister Elisa Baciocchi, who was Gra...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Urns
Materials
Carrara Marble
Thom Lussier Ceramic Vessel #3 - From the Oxidized Copper Collection
By Thom Lussier
Located in New York, NY
From Thom Lussier's Oxidized Copper Collection - a series of ceramic vessels that stand out for their rich textures and brilliant palette of copper and turquoise...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Urns
Materials
Stoneware
Monumental Italian Hammered Copper Vase, Art Deco, 1920s
Located in San Diego, CA
Monumental Art Deco hand-hammered copper vase vessel made in Italy, 1920s. Vase has a strong resemblance to Vittorio Zecchin designs. We have left vase as found with incredible patin...
Category
20th Century Italian Art Deco Urns
Materials
Copper
Antique Marble Urns with Faces
Located in Dallas, TX
A fabulous pair of bronze doré marble urns with finely chased male heads and pine cone finials. The lids do not lift off. Circa 1860, France.
Category
1860s French Antique Urns
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Chinese Green and Botanical Hand-Made Tole Lidded Urn
Located in New York, NY
Chinese hand-made, light green tole urn painted with branches, fruit, and a dark green band at the base and finished with a finial atop its lid.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Urns
Materials
Metal
Chinese Contemporary Olive Green Circular Urn with Porcelain Glaze
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese contemporary olive green round urn with porcelain glaze. Created in China, this circular urn features a small lip topping a generous round body. Adorned with an olive green...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Large Japanese Bronze Koro Incense Burner, Meiji Period, 19th Century, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A large and fantastic Japanese cast bronze incense burner, koro, with high relief design, Meiji period, late 19th century, Japan.
The large and tall koro cast in extremely high re...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze
Chinese Blue and White Peacock Motif Porcelain Urn
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (late 19th century) large off-white, porcelain urn with a blue peacock amid florals and two blue scrolled handles along the neck.
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Oversized Mughal Indian Brass Bottle Urn
By Rajhastani
Located in North Hollywood, CA
A late-19th century Mughal Indian oversized Mughal Indian brass bottle urn.
A sleek, elegant brass vessel, fluted neck, with cap.
Lucknow circa ...
Category
19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Antique Urns
Materials
Brass
Thom Lussier Ceramic Vessel #3, from the Golden Patina Collection
By Thom Lussier
Located in New York, NY
From Thom Lussier's Golden Patina Collection - a series of ceramic vessels with rich, colorful surfaces that evoke both terrestrial and otherworldly ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Urns
Materials
Stoneware
Neoclassical Style Pair Of Brown Marble Bell Shaped Urns
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a set of brown marble bell shaped urns with gilt bronze ram heads and square marble pedestals. The marble has a bold white veining patte...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Neoclassical Urns
Materials
Marble
Pair Antique French "Vieux Paris" Enameled Porcelain Cobalt Urns, Circa 1845-65
Located in New Orleans, LA
Exceptional pair antique French Vieux Paris enameled porcelain cobalt & gold urns, Circa 1845-65.
Category
19th Century French Antique Urns
Materials
Enamel
Sevres Ormolu Mounted Porcelain Vase
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Bronze mounted and ormolu sevres porcelain decorative vase / urn. The vase features exterior hand painted floral still live scene details with gilt borders on each side. The vase is ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze, Gold
Bronze Tazzas After a Pompeian Antique, Italy 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Pair of bronze tazzas on round marble bases with relief depiction of satyrs and heroes on the wall. After a Pompeian original.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Urns
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu Mounts on Chinese Export Porcelain Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very fine pair of 19th century Chinese Export porcelain lidded urns on French Louis XVI st. ormolu mounts. Each urn is raised by circular ormolu bases with scrolled supports below ...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Urns
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Taisho Period Japanese Satsuma Style Covered Jars
Located in Miami, FL
Pair of 19th century temple jars, lidded, Chinoiserie Foo Dog Finials, Exceptional quality and detail with raised hand painted work.
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Urns
Materials
Ceramic
French Sevres Style Cover Porcelain Urns
Located in Dallas, TX
French sevres style covered porcelain urns, lids having pineapple finials, figural reserves, seated winged cherub handles.
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Large Antique Italian Blue and White Lidded Urn, 19th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
This stunning lidded urn might have once been found in a 19th century Italian apothecary. The front of the shaped urn body has the hand-painted phrase “C. Violaru”, which is the heavily abbreviated form of the Latin word for violet (violaceum). Up until the mid-1700’s, apothecaries would make syrups from violets and use it to treat kidney ailments.
Above the Latin wording is a whimsical musical scene with a man blowing a horn leading a couple who is holding hands over rocky terrain lined with shrubbery. A large house and trees can be seen behind the trio with a pair of mountains in the distance. On the opposite side of the urn is a floral display with a bird perched on a rock. Beneath the bird is a geometric design, possibly a stylized sun with radiating beams of light. Both scenes are segmented by a pair of thin quarter round moldings that encircle the entire vase.
Other hand-painted motifs include floral and foliate margents, geometric patterns, and Vitruvian waves that are infilled with horizontal fluting. The sides of the urn have a fish-scale background beneath two mustachioed mascarons. Both men have been styled in grotesque fashion, with a pair of spiraled horns emanating from their heads. In between the horns is a looping handle that is affixed to the body in similar tight spirals. The domed lid has three scrolled arms that merge in a geometric finial.
The base color of the urn is white, with illustrations in a monochromatic cobalt oxide blue, reminiscent of Delft blue pottery...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Reed & Barton American Edwardian Classical Sterling Silver Trophy Cup
Located in New York, NY
Turn-of-the-century Edwardian sterling silver trophy cup. Made by Reed & Barton in Taunton, Mass. Faceted baluster with scalloped and beaded rim. Reeded and leaf-capped, -wrapped, an...
Category
Early 20th Century American American Classical Urns
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century Terracotta Spanish Vessel
Located in Dallas, TX
Large terracotta planter dating back to the 19th century. Item features small circular design along the neck. Origin: Spain.
Category
19th Century Spanish Antique Urns
Materials
Terracotta
Matthew Solomon, Glazed Ceramic Urn, United States
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary glazed porcelain sculpture by Matthew Solomon. Unique piece, signed and dated.
Using fine porcelain and glazes he crafted himself, Matthew Solomon translated the unru...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Urns
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Large Pair Old Paris Porcelain Vases
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Mid 19th century pair of Old Paris Porcelain decorative vases / urns with exterior gilt gold painted design detail scenes. Each vase featuring two gilt handles and painted scenes of ...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Urns
Materials
Gold
Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Marble Cassolettes
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Mid 19th century pair of Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted and ormulu Cassolettes / decorative urns. Each casollette featuring a covered embellisment foliate garlands, berried fini...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Urns
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Two French XIX Painted Terracotta Pots Submerged in the Mediterranean Sea
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Two French XIX painted Provençe terracotta pots submerged in the Mediterranean Sea.
Category
19th Century French Antique Urns
Materials
Terracotta
Industrial Factory Bin Newport Ribbon Textile Mill Fibre Textile Bin
Located in East Hampton, NY
An antique industrial textile factory bin from The Newport Ribbon Textile Mill in Newport Rhode Island, established in 1882; an industrial tube made from...
Category
Late 19th Century American Victorian Antique Urns
Materials
Tin
Pair of 19th Century French Weathered Iron Campana Form Garden Urns
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a backyard or a patio with this elegant pair of classical Roman antique urns. Crafted in France circa 1850, each vase stands on a square base with pedestal over a gadrooned ...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Classical Roman Antique Urns
Materials
Iron
Pair of Italian Art Deco Oil Amphoras
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish set of Italian Art Deco amphoras date to the 1930s and capture the spirit of the period with a band of leaping gazelles.
The pieces are...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Art Deco Urns
Materials
Clay
18th Century Rare Terracotta Hand Carved French Biot Pot
Located in Miami, FL
This fabulous handmade terracotta pot originated in the Provençal town of Biot and was used to store olive oil. In perfect condition, the photo...
Category
1780s French Baroque Antique Urns
Materials
Terracotta
Grand Tour Bronze Model of the "Warwick Vase" on Pedestal
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Grand Tour bronze model of the "Warwick Vase" on pedestal, complete with a 7" diameter x 6" deep removable liner. Beautiful rich original patin...
Category
Mid-19th Century European Grand Tour Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze
Vintage French Lattice Iron Garden Urn
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Large French lattice iron garden urn.
Category
20th Century French Urns
Materials
Iron
Pair Gilt Bronze Covered Decorative Urns
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Pair continental gilt bronze covered decorative Urns with exterior design details. Each urn is in great condition. Minor wear consistent with age / use. Each one stands about 15-1/4 ...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Urns
Materials
Gold, Bronze
French Mid-Century White Vessel by Henri Lagriffoul
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Grand illuminating basin by Henri Lagriffoul (1907-1981), held up by three balls and a square pedestal. Reinforced plaster finish in white with a square bas-relief detail of a blacks...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns
Materials
Plaster
Pair of Urns
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Covered Hexagonal Urns in a Chintz Pattern
The pair of covered urns all over decorated in a "Chinese Rose" chintz pattern by Albion Pottery.
Category
20th Century Urns
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Export 19th Century Porcelain Urn
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful 19th century Chinese Export porcelain urn with striking French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu mounts. The urn is raised by an elegant square ormolu base with concave c...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Urns
Materials
Ormolu
Maitland Smith Raku Style Ceramic Green Flower Vase Urn Cache Pot Jardiniere
Located in Dayton, OH
Maitland Smith green ceramic vase. Raku style with a squatty form and unique square imprint pattern. Measure: 14".
Category
Late 20th Century Chinoiserie Urns
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Italian 19th Century Neo-Classical St. Marble Lidded Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and most decorative pair of Italian 19th century neo-classical st. Brèche de Médicis marble lidded urns. Each urn displays lovely proport...
Category
19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Urns
Materials
Marble
Early 20th Century Italy Terracotta Decorative Vase Urn
Located in Madrid, ES
A large Italian terracotta urn or vase with molded scroll decoration and a lion face on the front is a highly decorative object.
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Neoclassical Revival Urns
Materials
Terracotta
Pair of French 19th Century Figural Dore Bronze Mntd. Alabaster Trumpet Vases
Located in New York, NY
A Fabulous Pair of French 19th Century Figural Dore Bronze Mounted Alabaster Trumpet Vases. Each Egyptian alabaster vase is beautifully hand-carved and hand-polished with the finest stone workmanship. The vases are mounted on incredible quality dore bronze mounts which are of Henry Dasson quality. The upper rim is mounted with a hand-chased and hand-chiseled dore bronze mount with a beaded and semi-circular acanthus leaf decoration. Each Egyptian alabaster vase body terminates to three dore bronze winged putti...
Category
1880s French Louis XVI Antique Urns
Materials
Alabaster, Bronze
Fine Large 19th Century Ice Pail in the Form of an Vase
Located in London, GB
An early nineteenth century neoclassical ice pail modelled in greens and greys with applied decorative swags, removable lid with acorn finial, all supported on a square plinth base.
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Urns
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese White and Navy Egret Design Porcelain Urn
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) white, porcelain urn with a navy egret amid florals and two blue scrolled handles along the neck.
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Stylized 19th Century Urns
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Stylized 19th Century Gold Plated Urns.
Category
1980s Vintage Urns
Materials
Onyx, Marble
Very Large Moser Glass Decorative Vase / Piece
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Very large Moser Enameled green paneled with gilt gold design details decorative vase / piece. The vase is in great condition. Minor shelve wear underneath. No flaws observed, the de...
Category
1930s Czech Vintage Urns
Materials
Gold
Sevres Style Porcelain Bolted Urns Garnitures
Located in Dallas, TX
Sevres style porcelain bolted urns, 19th c., royal blue ground, raised gilt enamel, hand-painted reserves with flowers, fluted plinth, rising on gilt met...
Category
1940s Vintage Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XV St. Porcelain & Ormolu Mounted Lidded Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A sensational and large scaled pair of French 19th century Louis XV st. Samson porcelain and ormolu mounted lidded urns. The pair are raised by a scalloped ormolu base with designs o...
Category
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Urns
Materials
Ormolu
Monumental 19th Century French Empire Sèvres Style Porcelain Urns, a Pair
Located in Forney, TX
A magnificent pair of French antique gilt bronze mounted pink Sèvres porcelain style vasiform urns.
Born in France in the 19th century, hand-crafted in rich grandiose Empire taste, palatial awe-inspiring large scale, featuring ornate finely chiseled and sculpted dore' bronze hinged handle mounts, partial gilt pink ground baluster form amphora - pithos form body surmounted by patinated brass final topped cover affixed to the flaired narrowing neck rising from voluptuous bulbous tapering body, embellished with elaborate gilded gold enameled scroll flourish filigree decoration framing central oval medallion showcasing hand painted polychrome classical landscape and pastoral figural scenes, over doré bronze mount fillet adorned porcelain foot ending in substantial sturdy octagonal cast gilt metal plinth base.
A superb example, high quality craftsmanship, construction, and materials, exceptionally executed design, this pair makes for a wonderful decorative object and most impressive statement piece!
Exceedingly rare, boldly beautiful and absolutely stunning, this majestic pair is sure to become the focal point in any room. Placed in beside a fireplace, flanking an door, entry or hall, atop a massive sideboard...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Urns
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Classical 19th Swedish Urn Form Bronze Vase with Sea Dolphin Handles
Located in New York, NY
This elegant and graphic 19th century classical vase was realized in Swededn. It features a square base that ascends into an undulating fillet and an urn form body with a cylindrical...
Category
Late 19th Century Swedish Neoclassical Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze
Antique and Vintage Urns for Sale
Decorative vases and antique and vintage urns are statement objects for the home that can date back centuries. Ranging from pieces with intricate, hand-painted details to more minimal forms with abstract shapes, decorative vases and urns come in a range of styles and sizes.
An urn is a type of vase that typically has a cover, a narrow neck and a round body, sometimes with a footed pedestal. However, when a vessel is called an urn, this often denotes its purpose rather than its origin or shape. One of the urn’s most crucial roles was and remains to be to hold the ashes of people for funerary rites. Another type of urn is adorned with figures that tell a story or show a scene.
Some of the earliest vases were formed from clay or metal-like bronze. Mesopotamians used them not only for decoration but also for storage. In ancient Greece, vases and urns frequently depicted stories from mythology, showing images of the gods and heroes. In ancient Egypt, vases such as the amphora had ceremonial purposes.
Over time, vases grew in popularity among artists as a different kind of canvas for expression. Unlike many of the ancient examples, these vases were not always functional but instead made for a striking addition to one’s decor. Even a plain, solid-colored vase can add color or style to a room. Metal urns are elegant additions to your living room or foyer rather than outside, unless you’re partial to the alluring weathered patina that is expected to characterize an antique cast-iron garden urn.
Every interior designer will tell you that decorative objects are what make a house a home. Decorative objects trumpet the homeowner’s personality while bringing a room to life. For designers, they present an opportunity to express their creative vision.
When looking for a decorative vase, it’s important to note the design and also the size and shape. Decorative vases vary from those with a wide base to those with long slender necks. Browse decorative vases and an extensive ceramic urn collection on 1stDibs.