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Style: Louis XVI
Color: Blue
Limoges Porcelain 1930s Vintage French Pair of Cobalt Blue One Flower Vases
By Limoges
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th century, French pair of small vases in Limoges porcelain, decorated each with a different front cameo hand painted with polychrome aqua ...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Pair of Louis XVI Style Covered Vases in Ceramic
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of turquoise blue ceramic covered vases in the Louis XVI style with twisted decoration. They have a gilded bronze mount. It takes the shape of a laurel wreath on the foot. The r...
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1880s French Louis XVI Antique Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu and Cobalt Blue Glass Vases
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and cobalt blue glass vases. Each vase is raised by a lovely ormolu base with a fin...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vases
Materials
Ormolu
Pr Ormolu Mtd French Sevres Biscuit & Porcelain Cobalt Blue Ground Seasons Vases
Located in New York, NY
An elaborate and monumental pair of 19th century Ormolu Mounted French Sevres Porcelain and biscuit porcelain cobalt blue ground "Four Seasons" vases. This pair of vases are extremel...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vases
Materials
Bronze
Beautiful Pair of French Louis XVI Sevres Cobalt Blue Porcelain and Ormolu Vases
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful pair of 19th century French Louis XVI style Sevres cobalt blue and ormolu-mounted vases with rams heads and wreaths. The porcelain body is beautifully painted with the signature Sevres Royal cobalt blue. The square shaped base is decorated with ormolu acanthus leaves and ribbon wreaths beautifully hand chizzeled and detailed ormolu work. These vases can easily be turned into a fabulous pair of...
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1840s French Louis XVI Antique Vases
Materials
Bronze
Pair French/Chinese 19th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu-Mounted Porcelain Vases
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine and impressive pair of French 19th century Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted blue-glazed enamel over bronze vases with allegorical masks, rings and wreaths. The porcelain is...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vases
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
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Pair of Neoclassical Paris Porcelain Vases in Royal French Blue, Early 1800s
Located in Dallas, TX
This pair of Paris porcelain neoclassical style vases from the early 1800s have stunning details and rich coloration.
Old Paris porcelain, or Vieux Paris, is the term given to the elaborate hard-paste porcelain products created in Paris from the mid-1700s through the late 1800s. Vieux Paris is a generic term, as there were more than 30 factories that produced porcelain during this period. Sometimes these factories would sell “blank”, unpainted pieces to outside artisans, so it is quite possible to see identically shaped pieces with different paint styles. Because of this, a fair majority of Vieux Paris is unattributed – meaning there are typically no production marks.
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Porcelain Cobalt Vase, Hutschenreuther Hohenberg, Germany, 1960s
Located in Chorzów, PL
A large porcelain vase decorated with the Echt Cobalt technique
Produced by Hutschenreuther in Germany in the 1960s / 1970s.
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Located in Dallas, TX
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Antique Limoges Hand-Painted Flowers Porcelain Vase Estate France
By Limoges
Located in Montreal, QC
Limoges porcelain pillow vase the perfect answer to decorating a narrow space, such as mantel place. Hand-painted floral and Cacti decoration. The handles...
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French Limoges Porcelain Cobalt Blue Pate-Sur-Pate Vase
By Marcel Chaufriasse, Limoges
Located in Vilnius, LT
A cobalt blue background Limoges vase and pate-sur-pate technique with scene of female figures.
Signed Marcel Chaufriasse Limoges.
Very good vintage condition.
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Antique French Sevres Porcelain Celest Blue Gilt Trembleuse Chocolate Cup Saucer
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning French sevres soft paste hand decorated Rich Celeste Blue Porcelain lidded Chocolate Cup of museum quality, complete with its original undertray and dome cover with a leafy ...
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Exquisite Antique French Sevres Cobalt Porcelain and Ormolu Centerpiece Compote
Located in Tustin, CA
Opulent, 19th century handmade and painted square porcelain and ormolu gilt metal centerpiece features elaborately scrolling floral split handles, and a grapevine wreathed frame with egg and dart edges on cabriole legs. An idyllic pastoral scene is exquisitely painted in minute detail in the center and dramatically framed with a magnificent cobalt blue painted border with rich 24-karat gold trim and panels of hand painted, multicolored flowers.
Measures approximately 15.5” wide x 12” deep x 7.25” high.
Hallmarked in blue with the letter A...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vases
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Pair Louis XVI Style Chinese-Export Ormolu Mounted Famille Rose Porcelain Vases
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H 15 in W 7.75 in D 7.75 in
19th Century French Ormolu Sèvres Porcelain Centerpiece Bowl
Located in Winter Park, FL
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Sèvres Style Porcelain Plate Depicting King Louis XVI
Located in London, GB
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Vases
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Beautiful Pair of Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze, Enamel and Sèvres Style Vases
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful pair of late 19th century gilt bronze and champlevé enamel mounted white Sèvres style vases
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H 26 in W 12 in D 9 in
19th Century French Neoclassical Louis XVI Style Porcelain Urns, a Pair
Located in Forney, TX
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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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