Substantial Early 19th Century Copper Urn

Brass vases with a turquoise leaf field background with a bright floral ground, flowers of white, red, and cobalt blue, the bottoms decorated with leaves and a single flower

19th century, blue and white painted on one side with a cupid and on the opposite side painted with a village scene, the underside marked with a rooster for Cantagalli Italian majolica.

Cast copper and brass with urn bases and roses and vines with delicate bows, incredibly crafted, these portapalme were particularly in Italian and Italianate churches, the utilizatio...

Having a large weighing surface and a smaller side for weights.

with working foot petal

Who doesn't need a spork? this one happens to be finely made and from the 19th century. Enough said? we think so.

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...

Grand Tour urn, of bronze, with a gilt and patented finish showing natural wear, having a column-snape urn-form; its down-turned bezel over its body, de...

Early tile chestnut urns with worn decoration. These make perfect pieces for a mantle.

Early 19th century empire toleware decorative urn circa 1830. Rare decorative urn that would have been used for incense or pot pourri. Original blac...

A large pair of early 19th century bronze campana-shaped urns, having flower moulded and beaded rims, above scrolled carrying handles and acanthus decoration below, raised on fluted ...

The copper domed covers are mounted with wood finials (possible added later). The shaped body of the urns terminate with turned socles which are in turn supported by drum like bases ...