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Urns For Sale
Chinese Archaic Style Gilt Bronze and Verdigris Vessel
Located in Stamford, CT
Chinese archaic style gilt bronze pouring vessel with dragon headed handle and geometric decoration. With wonderful gilt and verdigris patina. The boat...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Archaistic Urns
Materials
Bronze
China Republic 1912-1960 Inside Paint Carved Rock Crystal Vase Silver & Enamel
Located in Miami, FL
An impressive China inside-painted vase in rock crystal.
Beautiful and one-of-a-kind art-piece. created in China during the first years of the China-republic, circa 1912-1949. Thi...
Category
1940s Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Urns
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Rock Crystal, Silver, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pair of LARGE Chinese Palace Size Oxblood Colored Urns 47" H
Located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Pair of palace sized Chinese oxblood / Sang de Boeuf colored lidded urns. Lids have foo dog finial tops. Marked on the bottom. I believe they're 20th Ct but not entirely sure. 47" H ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Egyptian-style Bronze Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Bring the opulence and mystique of Egypt and its equally artful hieroglyphics to your space. The aged patina of the bronze exudes a timeless elegance, showcasing the meticulous craft...
Category
Late 19th Century American Egyptian Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Blanc de Chine Midcentury Urns with Rams Heads and Ivy Leaves
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of Blanc de Chine urns from the Midcentury period, with rams heads handles, grapes and ivy motifs. This pair of Blanc de Chine urns, origina...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Urns
Materials
Porcelain
American Studio Ceramic Raku Pottery, Lidded Vessel
Located in Boynton Beach, FL
Beautiful and expertly crafted lidded vessel on 3 legs.
American studio pottery. Copper flash Raku.
Signed by artist on underside of lid.
Has a brown appearance then when you get...
Category
Late 20th Century North American Post-Modern Urns
Materials
Ceramic
Small Vintage Bowl Vase, Chinese, Ceramic, Decorative Urn, Art Deco, Circa 1930
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a small vintage bowl vase. A Chinese, ceramic decorative urn, dating to the Art Deco period, circa 1930.
Charming Oriental taste, with a tasteful decorative appeal
Displays...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Urns
Materials
Ceramic
Pair French Stone Neoclassical Urns, 20th century
Located in South Salem, NY
Elegant and timeless, this pair of early 20th-century Neoclassical French stone urns embodies exquisite craftsmanship. Carved with care, each urn sho...
Category
Early 20th Century French Neoclassical Urns
Materials
Marble
Russian, silver gilt mounted agate urn
Located in London, GB
A most attractive agate urn. Decorated at the rim and foot with hatched decoration in silver gilt. Around the body of the vase are five swags of flowers and ribbons held in place by ...
Category
20th Century Russian Urns
Materials
Agate, Silver
Scandinavian Modern Wooden Pine Urn Exceptional Quality, 1970s, Sweden
By Jonny Mattsson
Located in Hillringsberg, SE
This wonderful urn was created in Älvdalen, Sweden, 1974. The amount of hour to create this exceptionally well worked piece are countless. The finish in the layers of the Pine wood i...
Category
1970s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Urns
Materials
Pine
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
Pair Gilt Porcelain Dresden Covered Urns
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Pair gilt porcelain Dresden covered decorative urns / pieces with exterior painted scene design details. Each urn is in great condition with appropriate wear consistent with age / us...
Category
Early 20th Century European Urns
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
Grand Tour Cinerarium - 18th century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
18th century Grand Tour Cinerarium
Limestone, inlaid with Roman marble fragments and fresco's
Annotation of finding spot indistinctively written on the fragments ("forum trajan","for...
Category
18th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Urns
Materials
Limestone, Marble
Hollywood Regency Gilt Wood Urn
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Magnificent and dramatic Period Hollywood Regency Gilt Wood Urn on Faux Marble base. A large gilt wood urn with a draped and tasseled bowl resting upon a U-form stretcher with a blac...
Category
Early 20th Century Hollywood Regency Urns
Materials
Giltwood
Large Moroccan Earthenware and Metal Lidded Urn
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Standout vintage Moroccan urn handcrafted in terra cotta decorated in distinctive Mediterranean colors and glazed under fine jewelry-like metalwork highlights.
Category
Mid-20th Century Moroccan Moorish Urns
Materials
Metal
Large Eva Jancke Björk Crackle Glazed Lidded Urn. Bo Fajans, Sweden, 1940s
Located in Malmö, SE
A grand Scandinavian Modern urn with amazing off white crackle glaze.
Designed by Eva Jancke-Björk for Bo Fajans, Sweden, 1940s.
This urn (model 3428) was in production 1943-1951.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Urns
Materials
Ceramic
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Marble and Ormolu Lidded Urn
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and impressive French 19th century Louis XVI st. marble and ormolu lidded urn. The urn is raised on a circular base decorated with acanthus leaves and an ormolu band above...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Urns
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Large Antique Japanese Carved Studio Porcelain Yellow Covered Urn Vase
Located in Wilton, CT
Large Japanese studio porcelain covered vase with finely carved decoration of birds amidst foliage set against a cheerful yellow ground, circa 1910. Measures: 18 1/2" high, 11 1...
Category
1910s Japanese Anglo-Japanese Vintage Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White and Blue Chrysanthemum and Bird Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, NY
"Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) white and blue porcelain urn decorated with a bird amid flowering chrysanthemums, and accented with two navy scrolled handles along the neck.
Sl...
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Italian Figural Porcelain Candelabra Urns with Elephants for Bonwit Teller 20thC
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique pair of figural Italian candelabra urns offer porcelain construction with cobalt lattice pattern with flowers, flanking elephant candle holders...
Category
20th Century Italian Urns
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century French Confit Pot
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
This classic French confit pot is from the south of France and dates from the late 19th Century. Note the pretty tapered base that is unglazed. Confit pots were half-glazed for two r...
Category
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Urns
Materials
Pottery
21st Century Esker Vase in Biscuit Porcelain by POL
By JCP UNIVERSE
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
"The unworldly beauty of ceramic in a sculpture by POL, realized exclusively for JCP Universe. Esker is a line of biscuit porcelain vases built with the rubble of ceramic factories. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Italian Basalt with Gold Gilt Ormolu Urn/Vases - Wedgewood Style
By Wedgewood
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of gorgeous black vases (possibly basalt) with gilt ormolu details.
Stamped Italy.
Please note these do have some signs of age with some chips (See pics).
Category
19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Urns
Materials
Ormolu
Early-20th Century Chinese Hand made Cloisonne Dragon Incense Burner
Located in Pomona, CA
This magnificent, exquisite and rare large Chinese Cloisonne incense Burner has gold gilt dragon on the top of the lid and three gilt ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Urns
Materials
Metal
Pair of Large Cast Iron Garden Urns, Garden Planters
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Pair of Large Cast Iron Garden Urns, Garden Planters
This is a superb and unusually large pair of cast iron urns
The urns are in...
Category
Early 1900s Classical Greek Antique Urns
Materials
Iron
Arts and Crafts Coffee or Chocolate Pot This is a beautiful hand made piece, th
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Arts and Crafts Coffee or Chocolate Pot
This is a beautiful hand made piece, the main body of the pot is copper with a very stylish swan neck handle, and a turned lid
The condition ...
Category
1880s Arts and Crafts Antique Urns
Materials
Copper
Mid-Century Modernist Ceramic Sand Colored Glazed Ginger Jar by Tiffany & Co
Located in New York, NY
This rounded hexagonal form stylized ginger jar has a beautiful sand colored glaze and is signed Tiffany on the bottom . It is a great accessory piece that would style in well with a...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Urns
Materials
Ceramic
Huge Signed Seguso Vetri d'Arte White 'a Scavo' Murano Glass Amphora or Vase
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
Monumental, large and elegant vintage Italian 16 inch tall 'a Scavo' white colored / colored glass Amphora or vase signed/engraved by Seguso Vetri d'Arte Murano, Italy. Elegant in fo...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Urns
Materials
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Circa 1880s French Scarlet & Gilt Tole Covered Urn
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1880s French scarlet & gilt tole covered urn. Handsome Classical form with trophy decoration. Bronze finished brass fittings. Provenance: Georgia collection from Swan Antiques...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze
English Turned Walnut Urn Wood Spill Vases, Pair, circa 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful pair/set of late-19th century English turned walnut urn spill vases with collard lip over neck, standing on a turned foot base, England. Dimens...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Urns
Materials
Walnut
Pair 19th Century French Louis XVI Mantel Urns on Marble Bases
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair 19th Century French Louis XVI Mantel Urns on Marble Bases were intended for decorative appeal alone, and feature classic designs inspired by ancient Greek amphora and Romanesque...
Category
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Urns
Materials
Marble, Brass, Spelter
Vintage Chinese Sculptural Crackle Glaze Chinoiserie Ceramic Urn
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful vintage piece of ceramic chinoiserie. This beautiful urn is sculptural as it is versatile. Traditional chinoiserie profile and lines define this beautiful piece while the...
Category
1960s Chinese Chinoiserie Vintage Urns
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Boho Grand Tour Lidded Urn
Located in west palm beach, FL
Command attention with this opulent vintage lidded urn, a Grand Tour-style masterpiece blending classical form with ornate old-world charm. The glossy black ceramic body is paired wi...
Category
Late 20th Century American Hollywood Regency Urns
Materials
Metal
19th Century Neoclassical Gilt Bronze Grand Tour Mounted Urns, a Pair
Located in Atlanta, GA
These urns are extremely high quality in decoration and casting. True Neoclassical gilt bronze grand tour objects and what makes it better? A PAIR!.
Category
19th Century Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze
Jean Girel, Lidded Vase with Frog, Blue Glaze, France, 2021
By Jean Girel
Located in New York, NY
Unique, signed and dated.
The great diversity and originality of Girel’s work is the result of his wholly unique approach. His techniques are not found in any ceramics textbook, b...
Category
2010s French Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Italian Yellow Tole Obelisk Urn With Paw Feet
Located in Stamford, CT
A charming neoclassical yellow tole water or tea urn in the form of an obelisk balanced on a square plinth by fours balls supported by brass paw feet. Decorated on four sides with ma...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Empire Antique Urns
Materials
Metal, Brass
"Perch & Angelfish, " Unique, Ambitious Art Deco Covered Urn by Nylund, Rorstrand
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This ambitious, elongated urn with elaborate handles and a sunburst lid is beautifully decorated with perch on one side and angelfish on the other, all in tones of black, charcoal an...
Category
1940s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Italian 19th century Louis XVI st. Alabaster urn/centerpiece
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and most elegant Italian 19th century Louis XVI st. Alabaster urn/centerpiece. This wonderful urn is raised by a square Alabaster base supporting a circular socle decorate...
Category
19th Century Italian Louis XVI Antique Urns
Materials
Alabaster
Very Large Granite Stone Mortar 16th Century
Located in Bonita Springs, FL
This very large and unique granite stone mortar from the 16th century has a beautiful and rare color palette. This impressive piece has a great patina and character. It looks impress...
Category
16th Century French Antique Urns
Materials
Stone, Granite
Pair of 19th Century French Medici Urns
Located in Ongar, GB
A gorgeous pair of early 19th century cast iron Medici urns from the south of France. These would look beautiful indoors or in the garden with their ol...
Category
19th Century French Antique Urns
Materials
Iron
Pair of 19th Century French Carved Marble and Bronze Dore Cassolettes
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a mantel or a console with this elegant pair of antique bronze dore and marble cassolettes. Crafted in France, circa 1890, these urns stand on square marble bases with reces...
Category
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Urns
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Davide Oldani Taac Pumpkin For Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Davide Oldani Taac Pumpkin For Cassina
Taac Pumpkin fa parte della collezione di contenitori in ceramica smaltata, che segna la prima collaborazione di Cassina con lo chef Davide Ol...
Category
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Urns
Materials
Ceramic
Unusual Russian-Made Silver and Enamel Islamic Vase
Located in London, GB
This Russian-made Islamic vase is an exquisite piece of craftsmanship that was intended for the Turkish market. The piece is colourfully enamelled and painted. The vase is hexagonal ...
Category
Late 19th Century Russian Islamic Antique Urns
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Gustavsberg urn with lid by Josef Ekberg, Sweden 1930
Located in Bronx, NY
Green ceramic urn By Josef Ekberg Gustavsberg, Sweden 1930 in excellent condition quartz colored with gold ornament golden handles .
Surface has a color play like a pearl.
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Urns
Materials
Ceramic
18th Century Large Delft Urn / Vase with Handles
By Delft
Located in Basildon, GB
18th Century Large Delft Urn / Vase , with beast decorated handles,
painted in blue with river landscapes, a courting couple and bridge, within foliate an...
Category
Mid-18th Century Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique Urns
Materials
Delft
Ohio Crystal Vase, Hand-Sculpted Contemporary Crystal
Located in Geneve, CH
Ohio crystal vase, hand-sculpted contemporary crystal
Decorative vase
Hand-sculpted in crystal
Measures: W 11, H 25.8, D 11 cm.
The sculptural and masculine reflections Copenha...
Category
2010s Danish Post-Modern Urns
Materials
Crystal
Important Levantino hand painted ceramic vase by A. Vaccari for Ce-As Albisola
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Important two-handled ceramic vase with lid made by the master decorator Antonio Vaccari in 1962 for the CE-AS factory in Albisola, Italy. The vase features a decoration in ancient L...
Category
1960s Italian Rococo Revival Vintage Urns
Materials
Ceramic
A Tessellated Marble Tazza Urn Dish By Maitland Smith
Located in London, GB
A Tessellated marble Tazza urn in Italian Emporador Marble. The undulating edge on the dish with brass banded soccle support.
Category
Late 20th Century American Neoclassical Urns
Materials
Marble
Pr. of Old Paris Miniature, Gilt Decorated Footed Urns With Garden Scenes, c1800
By Old Paris
Located in valatie, NY
Pair of Old Paris Miniature, Gilt Decorated Footed Urns with garden scenes, c1800. Miniature urns of this type are rare and the decoration is exceptional. The urns have bolted construction with scrolling handles and molded face mask terminals. The beautiful hand painted panels are of a seated young man and woman in traditional dress in a neoclassical garden with classical urns, landscaping, architecture and a fountain. Fine condition with mild typical wear to the gilt.
Trent Antiques has been a respected name in antiques for...
Category
Early 1800s French Empire Antique Urns
Materials
Porcelain
A Massive Pair of French Empire Style Gilt Bronze-Mounted Malachite Urns, C.1950
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Massive Pair of French Empire Style Gilt Bronze-Mounted Malachite Urns, C.1950.
Each with Berainesque gilt bronze tracery cast everted rim above a ves...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Empire Urns
Materials
Malachite, Ormolu, Bronze
Fine Alabaster Grand Tour Urn
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Neo-Classic Fine Alabaster Grand Tour (19th Century) Urn with carved floral details and filigree design top section having 2 handles and resting on a square base (1 handle re...
Category
19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Urns
Materials
Alabaster
Large Chinese Blue and White Baluster Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
This blue and white baluster jar was made in the Jiangxi region of China. The landscape scenes hand painted by feathery brushstrokes are richly evocative and bring to mind ancient Ch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Rouge Marble Lidded Urns with Gadroons
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of Italian Neoclassical rouge marble lidded urns from the 19th century. Imbued with classical elegance, this pair of 19th-century Italian rouge marble urns captures the grande...
Category
19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Urns
Materials
Marble
Vintage Neo Classical Urn, Continental, Decorative Ornament, Grand Tour, C.1930
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage neo-classical urn. A Continental, Bakelite decorative ornament in Grand Tour taste, dating to the early 20th century, circa 1930.
Striking forms, with serpentine f...
Category
1930s Italian Grand Tour Vintage Urns
Materials
Bakelite
19th Century French Painted Tole Covered Urn Pair
Located in Savannah, GA
This very handsome pair of French toleware lidded urns, in a deep red color with gold gilt accents, feature lion head handles on either side and artichoke finials atop the lids. Each...
Category
1860s French Grand Tour Antique Urns
Materials
Metal
19th Century Louis XVI Marble and Ormolu Large Urns
Located in Hixson, TN
A large pair of Louis XVI style marble (Hauteville) urns with extra ordinary ormolu mounts. The mounts (excellent condition and color) supported putti's, flame tips on the caps, to t...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Urns
Materials
Marble
Regency Bronze and Ormolu Candlestick Urns with Pineapple Reversible Tops
Located in Downingtown, PA
The bronze urns rest on an ormolu flaring foot which rests on a two step bronze square base. The ormolu handles in the form of dolphins are applied to each side and encircling each i...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Urns
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Incense Burner, Japan, 19th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful incense burner in the shape of a straw basket with a praying mantis sitting on top. Bronze, Japan 19th century.
Good condition, oxidation, one leg missing from the prayi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Meiji 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.