Pair of French Porcelain Turquoise Ground Vase on Stands, circa 1860

Pair of Chinese Porcelain yellow and turquoise ground Famille Rose vases, circa 1860.

Famille rose style covered vases on bronze mounts.

Pair of French Porcelain cachepots, circa 1860.

With fine gilding and gilt swan handles. The portraits with beautifully detailed portraits.

Pair of Paris porcelain Egyptian motif vases, circa 1860.

Pair of large Paris porcelain two-handled vases on plinths, circa 1860.

Charming pair of baluster shaped vases made in Valentine porcelain, with openwork handles enhanced with gold. They are decorated on the front with ...

These excellent gilt ground vases are high quality antique pieces, dating from the Empire period in France at the start of the 19th century. Each vase is set on a square base, is mounted with twin scrolling handles inset with neoclassical masks, and has a flared gilt ground neck. Both vases are also decorated to the front with depictions of winged putti on gilt ground; one vase shows the putti playing musical instruments, while the other shows them holding writing tablets and laurel wreaths. The reverse of each vase is Neo-Gothic in character, showing medieval church arches...

Pair of porcelain vases in the manner of Jacob Petit decorated with scenes of everyday life and bouquets of flowers in the reserves. Rich highlights in pure gold.

An important and extremely large pair of Magenta Ground Vienna Porcelain Exhibition vases. Austrian, circa 1900. Each vase with blue underglazed ‘Beehive’ mark to interior of neck. Each vase is finely painted with classical scenes to the front and allegorical scenes to the back on a rich magenta ground with gilt foliate decoration. The vases are mounted by extraordinary gilt handles headed by winged female masks to the sides and grotesque masks to the shoulders. The spreading necks decorated with Greek key decoration are surmounted by domed covers and the vases are raised on baluster form supports put down on drum bases finely painted with panels stylised arabesque. The Vienna Porcelain Manufactory was founded in 1718 only eight years after Johann Friedrich Bottger and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus had succeeded in unearthing the secret of Porcelain Manufacture for August the Strong, Elector of Saxony. On May 25, 1718, Emperor Karl VI signed a "special privilege" awarding Claudius Innocentius du Paquier the exclusive right to produce porcelain in the Austrian crown lands. Production being almost exclusively for the imperial household and the court nobility. During the rococo era, Empress Maria Theresia placed the company under imperial ownership and it was during this period that the manufactory began to produce the famous rococo genre scenes after Watteau. Under the management of Conrad Sorgel von Sorgenthal, the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory achieved an international reputation for its neo-classical style. After the wars with France brought the manufactory to the brink of ruin, the Vienna Congress at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century gave porcelain from Vienna a renewed upswing. Many important personalities of the time, including Czar Alexander I of Russia...

Pair Antique French Vieux Paris Porcelain Lavender Vases, Circa 1840-1860. Hand-Painted colors of lavender, green and gold with flora and fauna.

A very impressive pair of late 19th Century Japanese porcelain Fukagawa vases. Each with wonderful bold classical motif decoration to the top and bottom and a hand painted scene arou...