Pair of Large Imari Porcelain Vases, circa 1900

Pair of large vases with swollen bodies, or potiches, in Canton porcelain, with polychrome decorations of court scenes with characters dressed in traditional clothing represented in ...

Pair of Canton porcelain planters, circular in shape, decorated with koi carp. Work realized circa 1950.

Small gu-form porcelain vases decorated with pink family enamels on a yellow background with green interlaces. Decoration of white background cartouches with pink dahlias. Geometric...

Pair of lamps in Imari porcelain and bronze, adorned with flowers and leaves, in shades of cobalt blue, saffron red and porcelain white. Square base with four concave angles. Top of ...

Pair of lamps in Imari porcelain and gilded bronze, decorated with flowers, the base decorated with cartouches and quadripod shape, the top of the frame decorated with concentric cir...

Pair of ovoid shaped lamps. Collar adorned with blue leaves and red, orange and white roses on a white background. Gilded bronze frame. Round quadripod base adorned with leaves and a...

Pair of antique Imari large porcelain vases with rippled neck, each decorated in blue and red accented by white depicting delicate hand-painted flo...

Pair of antique Japanese floriform trumpet floor vases in Imari porcelain, Meiji Period, circa 1900. These beautiful Japanese floriform trumpet floor vases are adorned in polychrome ...

Pair of Asian Chinese Imari (18th cent) porcelain small vases with a scalloped top and scenes of figures and flowers. (small chip to 1 top) (priced as pa...

Large pair of Japanese Imari style vases, circa 1880.

A very good quality large Late 19th Century Japanese Karango Imari vase, having wonderfully decorated classical motif boarder decoration to the top and bottom, the central panel of b...

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...