Antique Savona Italian Faience Urn

From Italy, this hand painted majolica vase has two scenes divided by scrolling snake handles. One side depicts a trophy of arms with black eagle supporters, a flag and a ribbon date...

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...

Inspired by the Delftware products that became world renowned in the mid-17th to mid-18th centuries, this pair of cobalt blue and white cylinder vases were hand-painted in Holland (Netherlands) in the early 1900’s. The vases depict two distinct scenes, which were interestingly painted by different artists. One vase has a farmhouse scene signed by “E. Lombart”, with a thatched roof house set near two large trees. In front of the house is a woman watching over a cow and three chickens as they gather near a stone feeding trough...

A stunning example of gros relief barbotine, this vase has large, paper thin kaolin clay flowers affixed to the hand-painted body. From the studio of Edoua...

Hand-painted in France in the 1800’s, this beautiful barbotine cylinder vase features a lovely display of paper thin flowers made from kaolin clay. These gros relief flowers...

From Italy, this large, hand-painted Majolica urn dates to the late 1800s. At the top are two putti seated upon the lid and two more putti lying upon their stomachs on the curled aca...

A fine and elegant antique Italian Le Nove floral painted faience vase and cover. The earthenware hexagonal shaped vase has a moulded ribbed body exquisitely h...

Black ceramic Art Nouveau style jardinière with green distressed finish. Inside is flamed glaze and outside is natural finish. Minor chipping/scuffs. (See pics). Signed Italy.

From Italy, this imposing antique hand painted Majolica luster glazed ceramic pottery urn shaped vase with serpent like handles is over two feet hi...

Pair of 32" tall Italian ceramic ginger jar urns. The pair are phenomenal and have a wonderfully rich ribbed deep brownish to carbon glaze with a faint reddish / rust colored line in...

A delightful cornucopia-shaped Faience wall decoration signed Angoulême, a flower holder wall pocket in ivory white tin-glazed earthenware, hand-painted with delicate flowers and gold accents, with the typical 19th-century romanticism of the time and the growing interest and fascination with the natural landscape. The scrolled borders are highlighted in gold and decorated with rococo scrolls...

Late 19th century hand-painted Italian urns. The urns depict men, women, and angles in the ocean. The colors are soft but the handlers are painted in green and black in snack pattern...