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Urns For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1930s
Pair of 19th Century Sevres Porcelain Hand Painted Cobalt & Gilt Decorated Urns
Located in Germantown, MD
Pair Of 19th Century Sevres Porcelain Hand Painted Cobalt And Gilt Decorated Two-Handle Urns in good condition. Hand-painted different scenes on each side. No cracks or repairs. Just...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Antique Urns
Materials
Metal
Chinese Qing Dynasty 19th Century Green Glazed Water Vessel with Loop Handles
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese Qing Dynasty antique green glazed water vessel from the 19th century, with petite loop handles. Created in China during the 19th century, this water vessel features a generous circular tapering body adorned with a green glaze and brown accents. Topped with an opening of 5" diameter and comprising of petite loop handles, this Chinese Qing Dynasty 19th century water vessel...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Urns
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Alabaster Urns
Located in Newport Beach, CA
A striking pair of hand carved alabaster urns featuring the face of Mercury, sinuous foliate arms, rims of acanthus leaves, on a stepped base.
Category
1880s Baroque Antique Urns
Materials
Alabaster
French Champleve Enamel and Beige Onyx Stone Bronze Mounted Urn, 19th Century
Located in Gardena, CA
French Champleve Enamel and Beige onyx stone bronze Mounted Urn, 19th century
Blue and floral champleve enamel to the circular band connecting the neck to the body. Gilt bronze mo...
Category
19th Century Antique Urns
Materials
Onyx
Large French 19th Century Patinated Bronze Centerpiece Urn on Marble Base
Located in Vero Beach, FL
French Large 19th Century Patinated Bronze centerpiece Urn on Marble Base.
Stunning French 19th century Napoleon III period bronze urn raised on a black marble base. The centerpiece urn has a molded rim on the top. Front and back are decorated with a central classical mask...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Urns
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Fine Pair of Hand Painted Royal Vienna Urns
Located in New York, NY
A pair of fine hand painted Royal Vienna handled urns.
Both urns with beauties within an oval cameo on front and signed by the artist appearing to be T. Becker and A. Becker.
T...
Category
19th Century Austrian Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Paris Urn with Swan Handles & Painted Landscape Scene, France, ca. 1830-48
Located in Atlanta, GA
Paris urn with Swan handles & painted Landscape Scene, France ca. 1830-48.
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of French 19th C. Silvered Bronze Mounted Enameled Copper Armorial Vases
By Limoges
Located in New York, NY
A fantastic and large pair of French 19th century silvered bronze mounted limoges enameled copper armorial vases. Each vase has a bulbous body with a was...
Category
1850s Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze, Copper
Pair of 19th Century English Derby Urns with Flowers
By Derby
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of 19th Century English Derby Urns with flowers.
Category
19th Century English Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Set of Three Porcelain Royal Worcester Vases
Located in London, GB
The ovoid body on each vase decorated with gilded floral design, the ovoid body attached to a long neck with two side handles, raised on circular gilded bases, stamped on the base of...
Category
19th Century English Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Pair French Porcelain Twin Handled Gilt Bronze Mounted Urns, Hand Painted, c1900
Located in Gardena, CA
Pair French Porcelain Twin Handled Gilt Bronze Mounted Urns, Hand Painted, c1900
The central area of the urns depict beautiful hand painted figures of a gentleman in burgundy red ...
Category
19th Century Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century English Derby Urns with Flowers
By Derby
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of 19th Century English Derby urns with flowers.
Category
19th Century English Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Elegant Porcelain Pot-Pourri Att. to l'Escalier de Cristal, France, circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Large enamelled porcelain perfume burner decorated with vines on a background of rose petals. The set is embellished with an elegant mount in chisele...
Category
1880s French Louis XV Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Patinated Bronze Empire Period Medici Urns
Located in Montreal, QC
Paire of Patinated Bronze Empire Period Medici Urns
Category
1810s French Empire Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Italian 19th Century Sienna Marble Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and most decorative pair of Italian 19th century Sienna marble urns. Each urn is raised by a square base below the elegant socle shaped p...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Urns
Materials
Marble
French Porcelain Urns
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair of Stunning 19th Century French porcelain urns. In perfect condition. In the Baroque style. Perfect for entry way accents.
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of French Ormolu and Marble Urns Signed Sanglan, 19th Century
Located in Cypress, CA
Exquisite 19th century pair of French Napoleon III ormolu-mounted green marble urns, signed “SANGLAN.”
The foliage decorated ormolu lid is topped by resting bee above an ovoid-shaped marble, flanked by vine and foliate handles, centred by lovebirds, all resting on an octagonal marble and gilt bronze base.
Ernest Sanglan...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Urns
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique French Grand Tour Ormolu Bronze Dore Marble Urn Vase Centerpiece 19thC
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Superb Example of French lidded grand tour ormolu & bronze cast heavy duty model of a two handled Urn of Museum quality. First quarter of the Nineteenth Century, possibly Regency per...
Category
Early 19th Century French Regency Antique Urns
Materials
Siena Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
1895 Sevres Style Porcelain and Ormolu Bronze Covered Cornucopia Urn Vase
Located in Germantown, MD
RARE FRENCH PORCELAIN Sevres Style Cornucopia Ormolu Horn Vase Urn. French chinoiserie 19th century Porcelain Vases Gilt Bronze Ormolu Mounts....
Category
Late 19th Century French Baroque Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze
Large Meiji Bronze Vase circa 1850
Located in London, GB
Meiji bronze vase, of striking simple form dating from the mid 19th century. Finely cast with beautiful dark patina.
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze
Monumental Majolica Grecian Style Urn
Located in Elkhart, IN
An exceptional monumental Grecian-style majolica floor urn. This piece features busts of the ram-horned God Jupiter Ammon; with foliate banded accents; bulb...
Category
Late 19th Century Neoclassical Antique Urns
Materials
Majolica, Terracotta
Pair of 19th Century French Gilt Bronze and Marble Mantel Urns Casolettes
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a mantel or buffet with this colorful pair of antique urns. Crafted in France, circa 1870, each vessel stands on a square bronze base decorated with concave corner. Each cas...
Category
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Urns
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Sèvres Porcelain Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Sèvres porcelain urns. Each campagna shaped vase is raised by a circular base with a lovely gilt accent bubble like design below...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Armada Jug and Stand
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A magnificent, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver Armada jug and stand; part of our wine and drinks related silverware collection
This magnificent antique Victorian English sterling silver Armada jug has an elongated pear-shaped form onto a circular pedestal foot.
The stand has an octofoil shaped form with a central swept raised circular well.
The cylindrical neck of the silver jug is embellished with exceptional cast and applied floral and scrolling foliate decoration, all on a matte background; there is an exceptional shield shaped vacant cartouche to the underside of the pouring lip, surmounted with scrolling leaf mantling.
The knopped neck is further ornamented with an interlacing border flanked with plain bands, to a swept portion encircled with pensile bud designs.
The decoration to the body incorporates two large scrolling leaf bordered vacant cartouches, each surmounted with a coronet design embellished with floral ornamentation.
Each cartouche is further embellished with a chased figural mask design to the nadir, flanked with large floral motifs.
Either side of each cartouche is embellished with an exceptional cast and applied three-dimensional winged mermaid and mermen, gesturing towards the aforementioned coronet.
The decoration to the body is further embellished with large scrolling leaf and floral sprays incorporating a cast and applied protruding leopard's head to the anterior portion.
This magnificent antique silver Armada jug retains the original hinged cover, ornamented with chased scrolling lead decoration and surmounted with an impressive cast and applied scrolling loop finial.
This exceptional antique Victorian silver jug...
Category
1880s English Victorian Antique Urns
Materials
Sterling Silver
Large Pair of 19 C. French Ormolu Mounted Carved Agate Vases, Att. to E. Lievre
Located in New York, NY
A very large pair of 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted Carved Agate Vases, Attributed to Édouard Lièvre. Each vase is massive with a...
Category
1860s French Louis XVI Antique Urns
Materials
Agate, Bronze
Pair Of French 19th Century Renaissance St. Ormolu And Marble Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and high quality pair of French 19th century Renaissance st. ormolu and Brèche Violette marble urns. Each urn is raised by a circular base with a fine mottled border and b...
Category
19th Century French Renaissance Antique Urns
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Longwy Art Deco French Cloisonné Ceramic Vase
Located in Oakland, CA
An Art Deco Vase from Longwy of France in the distinctive “pyriform” -pear or gourd shape that so many of their creations employed. Smooth, faceted sides alternate with deeply etched...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Urns
Materials
Enamel
French 19th Century Clockset
Located in Los Angeles, CA
French 19th century clockset with dore bronze and marble.
Urns measure to be 12" H x 3.25" D.
Category
19th Century French Antique Urns
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Large Scale Hand Painted Tripod Urn from Guerrero, Mexico, c1800
Located in London, GB
From the Rio Balsas region of Guerrero, Mexico - early 19th century. Of stunning tribal form with regionally unique extending horn handles and distinctive looped tripod legs. Featuri...
Category
Early 19th Century Mexican Tribal Antique Urns
Materials
Clay
Huge Antique Mason's English Ironstone Imari Japan Ewer Pitcher Urn Early
Located in Wilton, CT
Monumental Antique English Mason's Ironstone ewer in Japan imari pattern, Circa 1820's. Unmarked. Bolted to a solid 2" thick ironstone plinth. 27" high, 18" across, 13" deep. 45 poun...
Category
Early 19th Century British Georgian Antique Urns
Materials
Ironstone
Monumental Italian 19th Century Renaissance Revival Style Carved Alabaster Urn
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine and monumental Italian 19th century Renaissance Revival Style Carved Alabaster figural ewer or urn. The impressive ornately carved alabaster ovoid body centered with an allegorical female mask crowned with grape vines and leaves, the top of the urn with a winged griffin handle flanked by two figures of males, each holding a swagged drape being held by a bull's horns; all raised on a square alabaster plinth...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Urns
Materials
Alabaster
Ironstone Urn & Lid with Foo Dog Finial, England ca. 1820
Located in Atlanta, GA
Ironstone Urn & Lid with Foo Dog Finial, England ca. 1820.
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Urns
Materials
Ironstone
19th Century Antique Chinese Fu Foo Dogs Protected Ceramic Fang Ding.
By Satsuma
Located in Silvolde, Gelderland
Beautiful Chinese Qing period porcelain and rich decorated Fang Ding. The lidded jar is also richly decorated with enamel and hand-painted and gilt accents and has upturned male Fu /...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Urns
Materials
Enamel
Pair Of French 19th Century Belle Époque Period Marble And Ormolu Lidded Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional and very high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Belle Époque period white Carrara marble and ormolu lidded urns. Each urn is raised by a square base wi...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Urns
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
19th Century Delft Polychrome Faience Vase
Located in Winter Park, FL
A 19th century delft faience polychrome painted vase with round body and narrow neck ending in an open bulb. Beautifully decorated in blue, orange, brown and green with large medalli...
Category
19th Century Dutch Chinoiserie Antique Urns
Materials
Faience
Late 19th Century French Provincial Yellow Glaze Terra Cotta Wine Jug
Located in Middleburg, VA
19th Century French Provincial Terra Cotta Wine Jug.
Provence, circa 1880
Measures: 9.5” H, 6” D.
Category
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Urns
Materials
Terracotta, Paint
Pair Antique 19th Century Japanese Satsuma Porcelain Urns, Circa 1880
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair Antique 19th Century Japanese Satsuma Porcelain Urns with Foo Dogs, Circa 1880.
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain, Ceramic
Set of Louis XVI Urns in the Sevres Style
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish set of two porcelain vases are in the Louis XVI style of the late 18th century, and are very much in the manner of pieces created by Sevres.
Note: The two pieces vary ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Hand-Painted Lidded Urn from Rouen
Located in Dallas, TX
19th Century hand-painted lidded urn from Rouen is typical of the colorful and artistic works from the storied region, capturing the vivid natural hues o...
Category
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Urns
Materials
Earthenware
Pair Of French 19th Century Belle Époque Period Centerpiece Tazzas
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Belle Époque period onyx and cloisonné centerpiece tazzas. Each tazza is raised by an elegant square onyx base with fine concave...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Urns
Materials
Onyx, Metal, Ormolu
Chinese White and Blue Nature Motif Porcelain Urn
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese (late 19th century) large white, porcelain urn with a scene of blue flora and fauna, and two dark blue scrolled handles along the neck.
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Bronze Mounted Rose Medallion Lidded Urns
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th Century rose medallion covered urns with beautifully cast dore bronze French mountings. In excellent condition. Lids are not removable.
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze
Pair of 19th Century French Bronze Urns
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of handled finely chased and cast bronze and dore bronze urns/garniture.
Category
19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Antique Swedish Decorative "J. & C.G. Bolinder" Cast Iron Urns
By J. & C.G. Bolinder
Located in Kramfors, SE
Antique cast iron urns from Sweden made during the late 19th century, around 1870. The garden urns are the classic medicine shape with handles at the sides. Marked “J. & C.G. Bolinde...
Category
Late 19th Century Swedish Renaissance Revival Antique Urns
Materials
Iron
French Sèvres Gilt-Bronze Mounted Porcelain Urn
Located in Los Angeles, CA
French Sèvres gilt-bronze mounted porcelain urn. Signed "Collot".The oviform body hand painted with a continuous scene of a landscape with a nymph and dog ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze
Pair of 19th Century English Derby Fruit Coolers with Lids & Liners, ca. 1815
By Derby
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of 19th century English Derby Fruit Coolers with Lids & Liners, ca. 1815.
Category
Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Sevres France Hand Painted Porcelain Bronze Mounted Large Covered Urn
Located in Gardena, CA
Sevres France Hand Painted Porcelain Bronze Mounted Large Covered Urn
Sevres France hand painted porcelain bronze mounted large covered urn, 4th ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Large 19th Century Gilt/ Painted Porcelain Pair Urn
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Large pair early 19th Century gild hand painted and crafted porcelain covered decorative urns / vases . Each urn features exterior painted scene details with gilt gold side handles. Each signed with pseudo sevres mark...
Category
1810s French Antique Urns
Materials
Gold
Sèvres Porcelain Vase, France, XIX Century
Located in Milano, IT
Sèvres porcelain urn vase in cobalt blue with gilded phytomorphic decorations and polychrome medallions, in one depicting a lake landscape, while in the other a bucolic scene; in the latter, he signs “Cottiret”. The polylobed base, the handles with female heads and the pine cone of the lid are in gilded bronze. Under the lid there is written “Offert par le duc de Choiseul...
Category
19th Century French Other Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Large Neoclassical Blue John Covered Vase on Marble and Blue John Plinth
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful and quite large Regency period neoclassical early 19th century round-shaped blue John Covered vase or urns raised on a Belgian black marble, Carr...
Category
1830s English Regency Antique Urns
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Carrara Marble
Bronze Mounted Porcelain Pair Covered Urns
Located in Tarry Town, NY
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 ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze
Important Monumental Art Nouveau Ormolu-Mounted Ceramic "Exhibition" Vase
Located in New York, NY
An Important and Monumental Art Nouveau Ormolu-Mounted Ceramic "Exhibition" Vase, C. 1895
This important and monumental vase was done by four different artists in the late 19th century:
Alphonse Adolphe Lamarre, French, 1837 - 1912 (Artist who designed the vase)
Paul Louchet, French (founder of bronze mounts) (Founder)
Charles Pillivuyt Porcelain Manufactory, French, Paris, 1853 - 1922 (Manufacturer)
Louis Chalon, French, born 1866 (modeler of mounts) (Modeler)
"An Art Nouveau Collaboration"
The vase in this case is an exceptional example of the collaboration between numerous artists during the late 19th century. The ceramic was made by Alphone Adolphe Lamarre (1837-1922) for the Charles Pillivuyt Porcelain Manufactory; the gilded bronze mounts, modeled by sculptor Louis Chalon and cast by Paul Louchet.
Spectacularly mounted naturalist vase; the base dressed and balustered, the neck finished in double openwork bulb, the surface describing sinuous reliefs. Polychrome glazed ceramic in Beige, blue, and green. The shoulder is decorated with a gilded bronze roundel with five ormolu bronze female...
Category
Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of 19th Century French Porcelain Urns with Neoclassical Scenes
Located in Charleston, SC
Attractive pair of 19th century French porcelain urns with
Neoclassical scenes. The urns are parcel gilt decorated.
Category
19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Provincial Yellow Glaze Terra Cotta Wine Jug
Located in Middleburg, VA
19th Century French Provincial terra cotta wine jug.
Provence, circa 1880
Measures: 10.5” H, 7” D.
Category
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Urns
Materials
Terracotta, Paint
Late 19th Century Yellow Glazed Terra Cotta French Provincial Confit Pot
Located in Middleburg, VA
19th Century Yellow Glazed Terra Cotta “Confit” Pot.
Provence, circa 1880.
Measures: 10.5” H 8” Dia
Category
Late 19th Century French Provincial Antique Urns
Materials
Terracotta, Paint
Circa 1880 Pair of German Sterling Silver Lidded Urns
Located in North Miami, FL
Pair of circa 1880 German Sterling Silver lidded urns, very heavy. An impressive pair of solid silver urns or vases that are decorated with detailed chased and applied elements including stylized leaves chased around the lower portion of the body. Each Vase has an applied wreath shaped cartouche on one side, one with the image of a woman and a man in period clothing...
Category
19th Century German Neoclassical Antique Urns
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Pair of Grand Tour Greek Revival Bronze Urns on Marble Bases
Located in Essex, MA
Each vase with scrolled handles resting on "griotte rouge" marble bases.
Category
1870s French Grand Tour Antique Urns
Materials
Griotte Marble, Bronze
Antique Tiffany American Classical Sterling Silver Loving Cup
Located in New York, NY
Fin-de-siecle Classical sterling silver loving cup. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York. Urn-form with bellied bottom. Three leaf-capped and m...
Category
Late 19th Century American Art Nouveau Antique Urns
Materials
Sterling Silver
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.