Paris Porcelain Floral Wedding Urn

Pair pink floral and gilt porcelain painted urns. Pair urns with vibrant pink, mulberry and fuschia banding alternating with rich floral sprays o...

Pair neoclassical Paris Porcelain gilt vases. Exceptional pair of large white and gilt painted campana form urns with strigilated patterning on body dow...

Floral porcelain urn-form lamp. Continental porcelain urn-form lamp with hand-painted flowers and gilt decorations on heavy gilt bronze base. Europe, ...

Lion mask garden urn. Beaux Arts period cream cast stone planter with bas relief apposing lion mask ring ‘handles’ suspending ful floral swags all above a zig zag ribbon banded base....

A pair of campagna-form Vieux Paris porcelain urns with male and female figures painted on one side of each and ancient ruins on the reverse, gilt decoration. Circa 1800, French.

A fine quality pair of late 19th Century French Paris porcelain two handle urns. Each depicting classical hand painted scenes of a praying Maiden and a musician. Set between a beauti...

A museum quality early 19th century Paris porcelain urn. The twin handled vase sits on a rectangular porcelain base (modelled as part of the vase), which is decorated on all four sides with finely painted scenes titled 'Gene de Corrinte', 'Gene de Mytilene', 'Gene de Sparte', and 'Gene de Chiu' in reference to various Greek city states. The ovoid body of the vase is richly decorated with Greek key and stylized acanthus designs over and below a large gilt framed oval cameo of Athena on one side and a similar cameo on the other side bearing an undecipherable name. The overall background colour scheme of the vase is dark red/burgundy and dark emerald green, two colours which were more commonly used by the Dagoty factory in Paris than other porcelain manufacturing firms at the time. The vase is unsigned. Note: Pierre Louis Dagoty's porcelain was characterized by the use of vivid colours and the thick application of burnished gold leaf. He borrowed from the repertoire of Neoclassical ornament but his designs also included Egyptian and Chinoiseries motifs. Dagoty's elegant ceramics won him the patronage of Empress Joséphine. At the height of production, in 1807, he employed over a hundred workers, and exported his wares to Russia. After the fall of the First French Empire in 1814, manufacture continued under the Duchesse d'Angoulême, the only surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Between 1816 and 1820, Dagoty worked in partnership with François Maurice Honoré. In 1817. Dagoty and Honoré received a commission from President James Monroe...

Pair of German Lowenstaff white porcelain with red and blue floral trim urns with handles (19th Cent) (Minor rePaired Chip) (PRICED AS Pair)