Red Boheme Crystal Vase cup Decorated with Grape Leaves, 19th Century Europe

Very pretty Japanese Meiji bronze vase representing a naked boy, like a cherub, very muscular on a Koi carp in the middle of crashing waves. The bronze work is very beautiful, the mo...

This beautiful baluster vase is made of Cantonese porcelain, manufactured in China in the late 19th century. Canton porcelain, also called Cantonese porcelain, is a typical and chara...

This beautiful polychrome vase is a Celadon vase made of Cantonese porcelain and originated in China in the late 19th century. It is 38 cm high (15 inches) and 12.5 cm wide and deep ...

Very beautiful pale pink vase of Napoleon 3 period. It is decorated with flowers and foliage in brown, white and green tones. It is made of opaline, a...

Baluster shaped vase in white, enameled opaline, with a multicolored decoration featuring bouquets of flowers on a white background. Gilded arabesques and latticework surround the bo...

This beautiful vase is an apt demonstration of why Bohemian glass is so highly regarded in the present day: this is a classy, sleek antique piece, ideal for the contemporary interior...

Petite pair of Renaissance style gilded and enameled glass vases - hand painted with scrolling acanthus leaves and flowers with banded borders to the top edges (resembling stained gl...

Bulb-bottomed vase with long neck decorated with multicolored enamel and gold. It is embellished with arabesques, flowers and latticework patterns in orientalist taste on a marbled Bordeaux background. Remnants of a mark underneath. The fascination with the orient and its exotic decoration dominated the 18th-19th centuries. It was China that started the enthusiasm for the costumes and artistic shapes that came from faraway lands. However, as a result of conquests and colonial Expansion, this fascination saw the displacement of its origins. During the 18th century, Chinese and Turkish styles invaded the salons and gardens of royalty as well as affluent esthetes who prided themselves on their taste for The Orient. From then on, baths were Turkish, furniture was lacquered, Persian tapestries...