Italian Monumental Mid-Century Modern Hand Formed Brass Urn

Cocobolo carved vase. Beautifully figured wood.

Murano aubergine centerpiece with rope handles. Hand made Venetian glass. ...

A pair of French mid 19th century bronze and marble garniture urns. Figured sienna marble. Patinated open urns with scroll floral handles.

Modern Murano vase by Fratelli Tosa. Ebony and azure blue satin glass. Hand made Venetian glass. Retains the Tosa foil label. Mid-20th century.

Pair mid century modern brass sconces. Excellent quality castings. Not meant to be wired.

Murano controlled bubble vase. There is a warm gold tone to the glass. A heavy globular form. Hand made Venice, Italy. Mid 20th century.

A Chinese four-legged barrel-form brass urn cast and engraved with archaistic decoration from the 20th century. The gently rounded sides are cast with the dispersed elements of two taotie masks, Archaistic auspicious beasts formed by a pair of stylized and confronted dragons which constitutes the features of this mythical creature, abstractly rendered in low-relief hooked curls. Two bands of kui or passing dragons flank the taotie ornamentation on the belly, all upon an engraved and very finely delineated white leiwen ground symbolizing thunder. Raised on four atlantes with a few anatomical engraved details, the urn possesses a flat circular lid decorated with stylized birds and topped with a phoenix-shaped knob with a ring, a propitious symbol in Chinese art. The white engraved ground nicely contrasting with the dark patina along with the Archaistic traditional low relief decoration echoes Chinese archaic ritual bronzes used in ceremonies or buried in the tombs of the elites for use in the afterlife. This Chinese barrel...

A monumental modernist style brass repousse urn made by Italian designer Egidio Casagrande (1911-1962). Casagrande is renown for his work as a master craftsman who worked on the meta...

Beautiful pair of three dimensional detailed 18th century giltwood urn ornaments. Original period pieces, Italy, circa 1750.

Grand pair of early 20th century English Campana form garden urns or planters raised on pedestal stands. The pair feature cast iron construction with ne...

Pair antique 19th century Italian "Majolica" porcelain urns with hand-painted mythological scenes.

This is a Talavera Majolica large amphora/ urn vase. It is hand painted in the belly with a scene of a country background with a musketeer riding a horse in one side and a country ch...