19th Century German Encrusted Porcelain Urns Set with Birds Motif

Pair of rare, mid-nineteenth century French porcelain vases exquisitely painted by Françisque Rousseau with floral bouquets on front and rears and gilt handles with lion masks. Each...

Pair of exceptional, tall handled porcelain vases from Royal Vienna with extensive raised gilding and hand-painted cartouches. One titled on underside, Opferung der Iphigénie (Sacri...

A fine and very large pair of antique (19th century) French opaline glass vases, attributed to Baccarat, with gilt and hand-painted decorations depicting birds and flowers. Each 22 ...

Magnificent and very large (23 inch tall) antique (19th century) trophy form vase or urn with cover, finely crafted from bronze with body and lid featuring multi-colored floral and a...

19th Century Meissen Porcelain Urn , circa 1880, painted with a continuous band of flowering violets. Crossed swords and numbered "Q92" on the base. 11.25" inches high

A pair of Porcelain de Paris cachepots planters from the 19th century, with hand-painted bird and floral motifs, and gilt accents. Created in France during the 19th century, each of ...

19th century German bronze footed urn. Features gargoyle feet and six natural scenes of birds divided by projected intricacies. Dimensions: 6", Diam x 5.75...

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...