French Vases

This French Art Deco Vase is a great example of how geometric and organic shapes can harmoniously work together. This particular vase stands out through its sleek silhouette and geo...

This French Art Deco Vase is a great example of how geometric and organic shapes can harmoniously work together. This particular vase stands out through its sleek silhouette and geo...

Muller Feres The heart of the company was formed by five brothers (Henri, Desire, Eugene, Pierre, Victor) from a glass making family who trained and worked at the Galle factory. Henr...

A very stylish quality French mid-century crystal glass vase mounted in a silver plated frame by renowned Paris makers Saint Hilaire. The clear blown glass vase has a wide trumpet shaped top with a fold back rim with a pinched waisted body and narrow flat polished heavy base. The vase sits within a purpose made quality heavy silver plated frame with a narrow round base and handle formed scroll top applications supporting a wide round top rim on which the top edge fits and rests. The quality is absolutely superb and it has spent its life in a display cabinet. The top rim is impressed ST HILAIRE...

A very fine and impressive French late 19th century art nouveau pottery vase overlaid with gold over silver decoration. Gold over silver has mark of E F and image of anchor in the m...

Rectangular vase, made of silver metal with wooden handles, designed by Maison Desny Paris (1927-1933). It was produced in different sizes. One of these sp...

Pair of French glass and silver-plate cornucopia vases French, Early 20th Century Height 36cm, diameter 23cm These excellent vases are crafted from glass and silver-plate and we...

Vase, crystal bowl with silver base PERIOD Early twentieth century TEMPLATE Vase, cup MATERIALS Crystal, silver base, golden side band DIMENSIONS H 22 x Ø 17.5 cm ...

Art Deco tazza/compote Jean E. Puiforcat silver-plated small silver-plated tazza with a blue column stem, on stepped base. Stamped "Puiforcat/France" with EP maker's.

A France Mid-Century Modern design vase model “Cardinale” in silvered metal designed by Italian artist Lino Sabattini for Christofle France in 1956,...

A set of 3 silver plated pieces, all stamped Galia & Christofle including the "Viking" vase. All designed by L. Sabattini. France around 1970.

French Art Nouveau silvered metal bud vase with removable etched glass inset within a base cast with a woman playing the harp (WMF).  

Art Deco tazza/compote Jean E. Puiforcat silver-plated small silver-plated tazza with a red column stem, on stepped base. Stamped "Puiforcat/France" with EP...

A silver platted bulb vase by Christofle France Stamped.

Vase small or tall model in silver bronze SM silver plated bronze vase 35/42 microns Measures: H: 180 mm, D base: 140 mm, tube 71 mm TM Vase in silver plated bronze 35/42 mic...

A very handsome and high quality pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI st. silvered bronze vases, each signed GALLIA and numbered 4948. Each with a circular fluted base and richly ch...

Pair of Art Deco black glass vases mounted in sterling silver armature and mother of pearl details. Made in France Circa: 1950.

Claudius Linossier Dinanderie Vase French Art Deco. This French Art Deco vase, by Claudius Linossier, is an ultra-rare piece that was created using the difficult technique known as d...

Our important parcel-gilt and patinated silver and glass-mounted vase and matching oil lamp were designed by Paul Legrand (1840-1910) and crafted by the silversmith, Charles Glachant, for Boucheron of Paris, circa 1878-1880. 21 in tall and 16.5 in wide (53.4 by 41.9 cm). 28.56 lbs, 457 oz, 14,210 g. Provenance: presented to or purchased by Jean-Baptiste Pezon (1827-1897); acquired by a European private collector, perhaps on the death of Jean-Baptiste Pezon in 1897, by descent; acquired by YM Antiques, 2017. This double walled vase has an amphora form, with body and foot with silver, gilt and patinated and stylized flowers, anthemions and sprays of cherries against an etched and matted ground pierced to reveal a gilt inner wall. The upper body is detachable via a slip-lock, and mounted on both sides with arched panels formed of hexagonal beveled glass tiles. One glass panel applied with bacchic infants taunting a rearing goat and the other side with infants feeding grapes to a lioness under a looming bust of a satyr. The patinated and gilt upswung loop bifurcated handles are mounted with fully modeled figures of Pan bearing a syrinx and thyrsus and a draped maenad playing two flutes, both above roaring lion heads, the rim inset with a slip-lock detachable gilt bowl etched with masks of various representations of Bacchus spaced by ribbons and trophies and with scrolling fruiting vines. The base of interior with detachable base metal drip pan to accommodate the removable oil lamp designed to illuminate the glass tiles from within. The lamp is raised on four hoof feet, the upturned ends cast underneath with masks and with detachable cover mounted with two infant satyrs and flanked by gilt loop handles. The bacchic themed design featuring cartouches depicting infants taunting a goat and lion, plus prominent lion masks at the handles, certainly appealed to Boucheron's customer, Jean-Baptiste Pezon (1827-1897), who is believed to have commissioned the piece. Pezon was the celebrated lion tamer and headliner of the Grande Menagerie whose profession brought him great fame and fortune in Paris. Born a shepherd boy in Lozere, he is said to have left his home at the age of seventeen in the company of a wolf he had captured and trained years earlier. He headed to Paris and by the age of twenty-one purchased his first lion who he named Brutus. The animal is said to have inspired the Lion of Belfort, the monumental red standstone sculpture by Frederic Bartholdi erected in Belfort in 1880. Toulouse-Lautrec was among his admirers and friends, visiting Pezon's Great Lozerian Menagerie to sketch animals. A large bronze sculpture of Pezon atop a female lion adorns the Pezon family tomb in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, as seen in our image here. The vase and detachable bowl are marked on the underside with the silversmith's mark of Charles Glachant. The underside and upper rim of the lower body is engraved "Fic Boucheron Paris". The lamp is marked on underside and flange of cover for Glachant. Boucheron archives indicate the vase was inspired by the amphora vases created by the Greek potter, Nikosthenes, 550-510 BC. The Nikosthenic amphora vases are a form of Attic vase recognized for their angular amphora form with broad flat handles. Potted of bright orange-red clay, they were decorated with plant and animal motifs within distinct friezes, with the most significant defining feature being the black figure painting, often highlighted with white accents. In this vase Legrand re-imagines the striking contrast of the black figures against a warm ground through the use of patina and gilding. His inventive use of piercing and double-wall construction create additional levels of texture and depth throughout the body. The same combination of ornamentation was employed in a ewer designed by Legrand in 1880 in the Islamic taste. (See lot 77 of Christie's sale in New York on October 22, 2009.) Edmé Bouchardon (1698-1762), royal sculptor to Louis XV, may have provided Legrand with inspiration for the vase's iconography. The panel featuring bacchic infants taunting a rearing goat is very similar to a bas relief representation of Winter designed by Bouchardon for the Fontaine des Quarte-Saisons on rue de Grenelle, Paris. Bouchardon debuted his plaster model for the bas relief in 1741, and the fountain was completed in 1745. The Boucheron firm, founded by the celebrated jeweler, Frédéric Boucheron...

A fine and impressive antique Edwardian English presentation cup. This impressive Edwardian presentation cup has a Campania form onto a knopped pedestal to a circular spreading foot...

Very fine and rare 19 century French Baccarat attributed engraved crystal vase with with gilded silver mounts.    

A ceramic vase with iridescent glaze in the shape of an elephant foot cache pot by the legendary French ceramist Pierre Clement Massier (1845-1917). Massier is widely considered as t...

Antique French silver gilt vase and cover / urn with rooster lid Mounted in Lapis Lazuli base with Rhodonite legs. With two goat-mask drop-ring handles. Maker: Nicolas Richard Mas...

Flower vase On one side it has a nude - Erotic lady drinking wine, and on the other a devil. Very nice quality enamel porcelain flower vase. It has silver rings on the neck and on t...

A silver plated architecturally inspired table object. Signed Original unpolished state.

French silver plate mounted framed /cut glass decorative vase with side handles. The vase / piece is in good condition. Minor wear consistent with age / use. Maker's mark undersigned...

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...

Sevres porcelain and silver flower vase, France, circa 1870.

Beautiful Mid-Century Modern Orgue vase by Jacques Sitoleux for Christofle, France, circa 1969. Stamped maker’s mark Christofle France Coll Gallia to the underside of the plate. Exe...

A slender bud vase in silver plated metal by self-taught metalsmith and designer Lino Sabattini, produced beginning in 1957 by Christofle, the legacy French homewares company where S...

Celadon vase in faience with silver plate and silver leaf, 19th century period Napoleon III.    

This matched pair of silver plated vases each depicting a stylized robed female with outstretched arms were mostly likely made in France, although are unmarked. The arms function as ...

A French Art Nouveau silver and enamel vase by Eugène Feuillatre. The vase is decorated with leafed branches holding pink and gold cloisonné flowers ...

Silverplated tube vase by Jacques Sitoleux for Christofle, France, circa 1969..

Raoul Lachenal large blue crackle glaze vase with silver pewter band made circa 1930's - 1940's. It's signed on base; 'Lachenal'. Image 5: Photo of a Dynasty of French Ceramists - Edmond Lachenal (1855 - 1948) in the center, Raoul Pierre Lachenal (1885 - 1956) on the left and Jean-Jacques Lachenal (1881 - 1945). About the Artist: Raoul Lachenal was a French potter. The son of Edmond Lachenal, Raoul Lachenal worked in his father's studio until 1911, when he established a new workshop at Boulogne-sur-Seine. While some of Raoul Lachenal's Art Nouveau ceramics resemble pieces by his father, he also produced distinctive stoneware that can hold its own against works by master glaze artists like Ernest Chaplet and Albert Dammouse...