1880s Vases

This Bohemian crystal glass vase was crafted in the late 19th century by Fredrich Egermann manufactory. The red-burgundy vase features finely engraved hunt scenes of a stag and castl...

Large pair of French Majolica Iris vase signed Delphin Massier, circa 1880.

Elegant antique vase, not too large, dating from the late 19th century, presumably French. With this vase you see a collaboration of different techniques coming together. The base is...

A superb quality Sowerby turquoise green, blue and white marbled slag glass vase molded with three chained swans with lion paws dating from around 1880. The vase is crisply molded wi...

Quality antique Chinese bronze vase having a quality ornate Chinese decorated bronze vase featuring a blossom tree, oriental male figure an...

French Aesthetic Movement bronze champleve Urns, Circa 1880 The pair of aesthetic movement champleve footed jardinieres with floral enameling over a ...

Brass vases with a turquoise leaf field background with a bright floral ground, flowers of white, red, and cobalt blue, the bottoms decorated with leaves and a single flower

A stunning 19th century hand-enamelled pink over white opaline mantle vase attributed to Harrach with the number “2” on the bottom. The shouldered baluster body has a trumpet mouth, ...

This elegant vase has been carved out of alabaster in the 1880s in France.

Unveil the epitome of elegance with This English sheffield silver plate two handled trophy cup decorative vase / urn. This remarkable piece, crafted with meticulous attention to deta...

Antique 'famille rose' (also referred to as 'rose medallion') porcelain vase - hand painted with enamels of a courtyard scene - floral and foliate borders - gilt decorated applied fi...

Pair of Hugo Lonitz Majolica vases which feature satyr masks to the side, with grape vine swags. Colouration: cobalt blue, green, cream, are predo...

Pair of lovely Victorian Enamel Blown Green Glass Vases with enamel floral and gilt decoration. Fluted tops with on gently lobed shape. Likely UK late 19th Century. Height 13.5 inch...

Luxury at its finest, a magnificent pair of Baccarat opaline vases of very high quality, gold decoration, very beautiful pieces. Napoleon III period 19th century. Dimensions: Vase H...

Early Emile Gallé vase in clear frosted art glass with thistle pattern. Carved with motifs in the form of flowers and leaves. Wavy bottom and top. Enamel work and gilt. Museum qu...

Large 19th Century French Majolica Flowers Vase, Impressionist period and style. 22 inches Height.  

Large French Majolica Iris Vase Massier, circa 1880.

Vase, table lamp, in Porcelain. It has been made in china, Circa 1880. The decorative pattern are Birds, and leaves. USA PLUG ADAPTATOR WILL BE FURNISHED FOR FREE TO THE US BUYERS S...

Very nice set of Bronze Dragon vases. Meiji period . Japan Beautiful warm color and patine . so decorative .

Model #1990. Auguste Delaherche turned the science of experimentation in ceramic ware into an art form. Coming from a long tradition of potters in the Beauvais region of France datin...

Pair of Greek style vases made two patina bronze. Each, designed in the shape of a tripod amphora adorned with Hercules heads, is decorated in low-relief...

Burgun, Schverer and Co small vase on French silver base. The vase is acid etched cameo glass with wheel cut finish . Plain surface fished with martele. The vase is marked at the bas...

Rare pair of French Majolica swans vases signed Delphin Massier, circa 1880.

Pair of 19th Century Victorian Cobalt Vases Minton. Decorated with white flowers.

An uniquely colored pair of art glass vases attributed to one of the many factories of Bristol England. This pair features the classic wide body with a narrow top neck. Full decorate...

Famille rose style covered vases on bronze mounts.

In 1886, John Northwood, famous glass artist of Stourbridge, UK, (later instrumental in the development of art glass in the US), invented a pull up machine allowing small metal teeth...

Large French Majolica vase with flowers signed Edouard Gilles, circa 1880. Painted flowers, impressionist period..   

Coupe en verre Murrino – Ulderico Moretti pour Moretti Ulderico & C. (Murano, 1880) Cette magnifique coupe en verre mosaïque est une création de Ulderico Moretti, maître verrier rec...

Japanese vase with birds and flowers design Meiji period relief decoration late 19th century Japanese origin piece in perfect condition pa...

In the "transitional" style.

One of the finest copies of The Portland Vase that Wedgwood produced, in many ways rivalling the First Edition itself. Decorated by Thomas Lovatt, then cut, polished and shaded by John Northwood in his glass engraving studio. Although 30 copies were intended, the work was so exacting and arduous that in the end only thirteen were finished. The mirrored stand, which is included, is later and I think dates from the late 20th century. Of all the stands designed for the Portland Vase, this is the best I've seen. The original Portland vase, dating from around 200AD and made of cameo glass, is considered one of the most important examples of classical design and is noted for its intricate relief sculptures, which depict classical figures and scenes from Greek mythology - exactly what, though, we're not sure. The original Wedgwood Portland Vase...

Beautiful pair of blue-tinted crystal “rouleau” vases decorated with Japanese-style enameled decoration representing a gilded full moon reflecting a tree with flowering branches, sur...

Fine French Majolica pink rose vase signed Delphin Massier, circa 1880. The Massier family are known for the quality of their unique enamels and painti...

This Bohemian crystal glass vase was crafted in the late 19th century by Fredrich Egermann manufactory. This splendid glass vase has been finely engraved with the grindstone to depic...

The Roemer glass is painted with dwarves harvesting. Marked with the JLL monogram in white enamel.

Elegant Wedgwood-style bottle vase with a soft blue matte finish, delicately adorned with hand-painted floral motifs. The finely detailed pink and green flower patterns, combined wit...

Tall Majolica iris vase Massier unsigned of the end of 19th century. Art Nouveau period.

An unusual and stunning aesthetic movement Doulton Lambeth Silicon Ware vase decorated with incised and pate-sur-pate thistle designs by r...

Beautiful pair of green marble covered vases, set in an elegant chiseled and gilded bronze mount, decorated with lion heads alternating with garlands of flowers. The molded lid is to...

On metal mounts.

A Very Large 19th Century French Baccarat Opaline Crystal Vase with Enameled Putti and Floral Decoration. The amphora form vase is beautifully hand-enam...

Rare early pair of Loetz Bohemian Glass Vases in a graceful Tulip Motif made by Johann Loetz Witwe in the 1880s. Green and rich red color with silver and blue iridescent highlights s...

This Victorian Majolica stork vase is signed Joseph Holdcroft, inspired by Minton Joseph Holdcroft offer here a different version more rustic. It's...

A museum quality blown glass vase with exceptional hand enamel decorations of florals and a darling dragon fly. It is accented with white jeweling around its top and elegant pedestal...

A large Majolica triple bamboo vase decorated with four birds attributed to Delphin Massier, circa 1880.

Doulton Faience Shaped Botanical Pottery Vase, Aesthetic Movement, Signed by Artist Mary M Arding, Early 1880s The unusually shaped molded vase...

A Large Pair of 19th Century French Ormolu-Mounted Chinese Famille Verte Porcelain Covered Vases/Pot-Pouries, with Daoist Emblem Cartouches. Each vase is made of famille verte porc...

A Monumental 19th Century Moser Gilt and Enameled Yellow Crystal Parrot-Relief Vase. Of bottle vase form, in translucent amber/yellow crystal, decorated with trailing oak-boughs and ...

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...

French Majolica vase with fishs and shells, circa 1880. Bamboo handles.   

A rare and authentic Mary Gregory glass vase, crafted in deep cobalt blue and featuring her signature white enamel painting. This charming piece from the "Ice Children" collection sh...

A 19th century Meissen porcelain 'Elements' ewer emblematic of air. Blue crossed swords mark. The present ewer, representing water, i...

Charming 19th century small majolica vase with white dog who look on a bucket signed Hippolyte Boulenger Choisy le Roi. At the end of 19th century, Choisy le roi was one of the most ...

Antique English silver plated epergne. Four arm design, each with cut glass inset bowl. Center cut glass inset bowl. Stand alone is 10” tall x 5.5” deep x 8.25” wide. Stamped on the ...

A rare and exceptional Doulton Lambeth art pottery beaker shaped vessel beautifully decorated with floral panels by renowned artist John Broad and dated 1880. This unusually finely m...

A ceramic satsuma ware vase with very fine surface decoration made by Kinkozan circa 1880-1900s of late Meiji Period. The vase is of an elegant and relatively rare form with a trumpet shape body and the so-called garlic neck and opening. The surface is exquisitely decorated in a floral scheme with gilt and a light jewel-tone enamel. The top part showcases large bundles of wisteria blossom in white and purple, cascading down from a gilt wood trellis...

A stunning and fine pair Doulton Lambeth Impasto daisy painted vases by renowned Faience artist Kate Rogers and dated 1885. The stoneware vases are of tall bulbous shape standing r...

A miniature vase in elegant upright form reminiscent of the Chinese imperial Willow Leaf form made by Japanese studio Seikozan circa 1890-1910s (late Meiji Period). One of the many a...

A finely decorated pair of deep rich blue vases with cartouches of the iconic Blue Willow pattern on their flow blue grounds. With adorable feet on their bases and moon shaped vessel...