Early 19th Century Pair of Regency Toleware Green and Gilt Vases

After the antique a late 19th century atticware vase, with typical red and black decoration of classical scenes. Some elderly repairs, knocks and abrasions. 41cm in height 20cm...

19th century pair of carved marble decorative elements with organic following lines very much in the rococo revival style, previously part of larger interior architectural feature ...

A pair of English Neoclassical green painted tôle lidded urns from the 19th century, with scrolling foliage and palmettes, friezes of waterleaves, campanula and ivy. Created in Engla...

A Pair of Large Gilt-Bronze Mounted Chinese Celadon-Ground and Slip Decorated Porcelain Vases. These vases of Chinese celadon porcelain from the late Quing Dynasty are slip-decorated with willow trees and prunus flowers. The finely sculpted gilt-bronze handles are modelled as winged merman term figures running on berried scrolled clasps to a rocaille raised foot. These superb vases are in the tradition for mounting Chinese porcelain with gilt-bronze accoutrements made by ciseleur-doreurs such as Pierre Gouthière for the marchand-merciers, namely Dominique Daguerre and Simon-Philippe Poirier. The practice continued into the nineteenth century when Prince Regent, later George IV (1762-1830), sent Chinese porcelain vases from the Royal...