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Vases For Sale
Style: Georgian
Style: Louis XV
18th Century Derby Porcelain Vase with May Blossom Decoration
Located in Downingtown, PA
Derby Porcelain Shaped Vase with May Blossom Decoration, circa 1770-1775 The four-sided shaped Baluster vase and cover with square-shaped neck and foot is designed with a design of multiple applied tightly packed May blossoms or Mayflowers (Schneeballen) with yellow stamen and a tint of aqua blue to the edge of each flower while the ground behind has a light purple wash creating a stunning effect after the Meissen Schneeballen...
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1770s English Georgian Antique Vases

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Porcelain

French Gilt Bronze and Chinese Cloisonné Enamel Jardinière
Located in London, GB
French gilt bronze and Chinese cloisonné enamel jardinière French and Chinese, early 20th century Measures: Height 63cm, width 58cm, depth 40cm This piece is a superb example of...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XV Vases

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Bronze, Enamel, Ormolu

Bisque Goat's Head Vase, 19th Century Period
By Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis, the Elder
Located in Paris, FR
Porcelain bisque vase with poly-lobed neck, the handles decorated with goats holding bunches of grapes in their mouths, after a model close to Duplessis called Goat's Head. The vase ...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vases

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Porcelain

Pair of Vermeil and Vernis Martin Louis XV Style Vases
Located in London, GB
Pair of vermeil and vernis Martin Louis XV style vases French, 19th century Measures: Height 37cm, width 19cm, depth 13cm This beautiful pair of vase...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vases

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Silver

Fine Pair of Patinated Bronze Bacchanalian Vases
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine pair of patinated bronze bacchanalian vases, after Clodion. Cast after the design by Clodion, the vases are modelled with masks depicting chimerical ibex flanked by laurel ...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vases

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Bronze

Antique 18th Century Gilt White Milk Glass Vase in the Manner of James Giles
By James Giles
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine and rare white, opaque glass vase decorated in the manner of James Giles. English or possibly Continental in origin. (Bohemian or German Milchgla...
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Late 18th Century English George II Antique Vases

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Blown Glass

Pair of Gilt Bronze Mounted Porcelain Vases in Manner of Sèvres
Located in London, GB
This Sèvres style porcelain vases in this pair are mounted with gilt bronze. The overall design scheme is exceptionally ornate, the bronze casting and the painted porcelain betraying...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vases

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Bronze, Ormolu

Massive Pair of Chinese Turquoise Porcelain, French Dore Bronze Mounted Vases
Located in New York, NY
A magnificent and exceptional pair of massive antique French 18th century Louis XV period doré bronze and Chinese Turquoise ground porcelain hand engraved basket weave form vases. Th...
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18th Century French Louis XV Antique Vases

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Bronze

Pair of Late 19th Century Vases in Marble and Gilt Bronze
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of green marble “vert de mer” baluster-shaped vases. They are richly decorated with gilt bronze Louis XV-style Rocaille, foliage, flowers, and seeds that wind up around the paun...
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1880s French Louis XV Antique Vases

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Marble, Bronze

19th Century French Pair of Bronze Vases in Brown Patina on Marble Base
Located in Sofia, BG
French pair of vases with brown patina, decorated in Louise XV style, standing on white marble base. Very good condition, circa 1890.
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vases

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Marble, Bronze

Vintage 19th Century, Artist Signed Pair of Enamel Vases
Located in Bronx, NY
An exceptional vintage pair of hand painted French/Austrian enamel vases that are artist-signed & designed in the 19th century. The vases display detailed and elaborately costumed fu...
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Mid-19th Century French George III Antique Vases

Materials

Enamel, Copper

Sèvres Porcelain Garniture, Mounted in Gilt Bronze by Picard
Located in London, GB
With its delightful painted representations of the four seasons and bacchanalian scenes, this ‘bleu celeste’ garniture demonstrates the technical excellence of Sevres factory porcelain. On top of this, the porcelain vases are beautifully decorated with gilt bronze (ormolu) mounts, expertly cast by Henri Picard, the manufacturer and gilder to Emperor Napoleon III. This garniture is comprised of a central jardinière and a pair of flanking vases. The jardinière features a wide porcelain body, which is topped by a gilt bronze guilloche-patterned neck. This is fitted with two geometric handles, which terminate in cherubs masks. The jardinière body is finely decorated with a continuous painting of putti playing together in a woodland setting. One putti holds the pinecone-tipped staff carried by followers of Bacchus (or Dionysus), the god of wine and ecstasy. Several putti ride on a goat, led on a harness by other putti. This painting is edged with jewelled and parcel gilt decoration, set against a bright ‘bleu celeste’ ground. The jardinière stands on a shaped gilt bronze stem, its top encircled by a band of stiff leaves, its middle by a laurel wreath, and its foot by beading. The jardinière is placed on a square gilt bronze plinth, which is decorated with grape-form finials, hung draperies and foliate motifs, and is set on four beaded toupie feet. The pair of vases are similar to the jardinière in their design. They feature ovoid ‘bleu celeste’ porcelain bodies, which are decorated with continuous paintings of the four seasons, within gilt and jewelled frames. Winter is depicted in a scene showing putti huddled together on a sleigh in a snowy landscape, and autumn by cherubs reaping crops with a sickle. Spring is shown by cherubs wearing flower wreaths and dancing while holding garlands, and summer by putti picking grapes and drinking wine. The vases’ bodies are topped by pointed gilt and jewelled ‘bleu celeste’ porcelain lids, crowned by gilt bronze grape finials. Like the jardinière, the vases are fitted with gilt bronze cherub...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vases

Materials

Bronze, Ormolu

Pair of Covered Vases Attributed to Maison Lexcellent, France, Circa 1890
Located in PARIS, FR
Important pair of curved shape Louis XV style covered vases attributed to Maison Lexcellent, with godrons, in Aswan granite, gilded and chiseled bronze. The lid is topped by a pomegr...
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1890s French Louis XV Antique Vases

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Granite, Bronze

19th Century French Hand Painted Faience Ewer Vase from Normandy
Located in Dallas, TX
This tall, antique "Aiguiere" (ewer) was sculpted in Rouen, France, circa 1860. This delicate, ornate ceramic pitcher has one large handle, a sloped spout, four feet and an elegant s...
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Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vases

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Ceramic, Faience

Pair of French Louis XV Style Blue Vases with Candelabra Arms
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Louis XV-style (19th/20th Century) blue ground vases with scrolling 2 arm candelabras above elephant masks, after the Sevres model c. 1755 (by HEREND of Hungary) (PRIC...
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Late 19th Century Hungarian Louis XV Antique Vases

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Porcelain

Pair of Cup and Covers by John Bridge for Rundell, Bridge & Rundell, circa 1825
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An unusual pair of George IV silver-gilt cup and covers by John Bridge for Rundell, Bridge & Rundell. English, circa 1824-1826. Hallmarks for Rundell, Bridge & Rundell, London...
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Early 19th Century English George IV Antique Vases

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Silver

Pair of Antique French Transitional Ormolu-Mounted Rouge Griotte Marble Vases
Located in New York, NY
A pair of antique French transitional ormolu-mounted rouge griotte marble covered vases or urns Last quarter of the 19th century attributed to Henry Dasson Each with domed lid with...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vases

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Griotte Marble, Ormolu

19th Century French Hand Painted Ceramic Vase with Lid from Normandy
Located in Dallas, TX
This elegant antique vase was created in Rouen, France circa 1850; the colorful, ceramic vessel stands on small scrolled feet, and features a cone lid with finial at the pediment, em...
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Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vases

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Ceramic

Pair of English Georgian Silver Plated Vases
Located in New York, NY
Pair of English Georgian style (19th Cent) tall silver plated narrow classic vases with handles and floral design.
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19th Century British Georgian Antique Vases

Materials

Silver Plate

French Louis XV Celadon Porcelain Vase
Located in New York, NY
French Louis XV style celadon crackled design porcelain vase with bronze dore floral base and scroll top (19/20th Cent.)
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vases

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Bronze

Large 19th Century French Sevres Ormolu Mounted Porcelain Covered Vase
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A large and impressive 19th century French 'Sevres' ormolu mounted painted porcelain covered urn. Cobalt-blue baluster form with tooled gilt bordering cartouche centered with hand painted romantic scene depicting a standing man and two ladies. The reverse side with landscape scene within a tooled gilt bordered cartouche. An intricately detailed gilded bronze wreath, wings and hinged ring handles flank each side of urn, conforming socle base with a gilt bronze rim with continuous acanthus leaf detail, gilt bronze shapely plinth. The lid with monogram E within blue interlaced L's Se`vres mark. Inscribed: Offert par le due de Richelieu a la princesse de lamballe...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vases

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Bronze

Clodion, Pair of Ewers in Bronze with Two Patinas, Late 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
After Clodion. Pair of bronze ewers with two patinas representing bacchanalia scenes after Clodion. Circular base with gadroon piedouche decora...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vases

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Bronze

Antique French Sevres Porcelain Floral Enamel Decorated Vase C. 1770
Located in Atlanta, GA
Sevres (French, founded 1756), marked for 1770. An antique French porcelain urn or vase decorated with a green porcelain base, white ground windows featuring heavy floral decorations and separated by fine gold bead work. The top with gold swag motifs and linear scalloping encompassing the entire piece. The bottom marked for Sevres 1770. Provenance: From the Estate of a prominent Concord MA...
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18th Century French Louis XV Antique Vases

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Enamel

Fine Pair of Louis XV Style Marble Ewers by Paul Sormani
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine pair of Louis XV Style gilt-bronze mounted marble Ewers, by Paul Sormani. Each ewer stamped to the underside ‘P.S.’ for Paul Sormani. Each e...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vases

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Marble, Bronze

Rare Mason's Ironstone Pot Pourri Vase Fence Japan, English Georgian circa 1817
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a rare shaped ironstone lidded vase, forming a Pot Pourri vase, in the gilded and hand painted Fence Japan pattern, made by the Mason's factory in the early 19th century, cir...
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Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Vases

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Pottery, Ironstone

Antique English Silver Plated and Cut Glass Epergne
Located in Stamford, CT
Antique English silver plated epergne. Four arm design, each with cut glass inset bowl. Center cut glass inset bowl. Stand alone is 10” tall x 5.5” deep x 8.25” wide. Stamped on the ...
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1880s British Georgian Antique Vases

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Silver Plate

Antique and Vintage Vases for Sale

Whether it’s a Chinese Han dynasty glazed ceramic wine vessel, a work of Murano glass or a hand-painted Scandinavian modern stoneware piece, a fine vase brings a piece of history into your space as much as it adds a sophisticated dynamic. 

Like sculptures or paintings, antique and vintage vases are considered works of fine art. Once offered as tributes to ancient rulers, vases continue to be gifted to heads of state today. Over time, decorative porcelain vases have become family heirlooms to be displayed prominently in our homes — loved pieces treasured from generation to generation.

The functional value of vases is well known. They were traditionally utilized as vessels for carrying dry goods or liquids, so some have handles and feature an opening at the top (where they flare back out). While artists have explored wildly sculptural alternatives over time, the most conventional vase shape is characterized by a bulbous base and a body with shoulders where the form curves inward.

Owing to their intrinsic functionality, vases are quite possibly versatile in ways few other art forms can match. They’re typically taller than they are wide. Some have a neck that offers height and is ideal for the stems of cut flowers. To pair with your mid-century modern decor, the right vase will be an elegant receptacle for leafy snake plants on your teak dining table, or, in the case of welcoming guests on your doorstep, a large ceramic floor vase for long tree branches or sticks — perhaps one crafted in the Art Nouveau style — works wonders.

Interior designers include vases of every type, size and style in their projects — be the canvas indoors or outdoors — often introducing a splash of color and a range of textures to an entryway or merely calling attention to nature’s asymmetries by bringing more organically shaped decorative objects into a home.

On 1stDibs, you can browse our collection of vases by material, including ceramic, glass, porcelain and more. Sizes range from tiny bud vases to massive statement pieces and every size in between.

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