Hand-Painted Vases

Large pair of Sèvres-style porcelain Napoleonic vases with ormolu mounts French, Late 19th Century Height 96cm, diameter 33cm Standing just below a metre in height, these impressive...

Pair of butter yellow Chinese hand painted gourd form vases. Painted with orange pairs of fancy goldfish to the front as well as the back along with aqu...

A pair of Napoleon III late 19th century French oval shaped lidded vases rendered in Blue Royal glazed porcelain in the style of Sevres manufacture. These very fine large scale decor...

An unusual Aesthetic Movement flow glaze twin handled vase in the ‘Persian Taste’ by renowned British designer Christopher Dresser (British, 1834 – 1904) for Watcombe Torquay...

This is a good, decorative Chinese export, Imperial Canton, porcelain, Famille Rose, Small or Bud Vase which we date to the mid-19th century, Qing dynasty, circa 1850. The vase ha...

Made by the Bohemian Art Glass manufacturers of the 19th Century, transparent glass with white opaline glass overlay is hand-cut in a symmetrical pattern to reveal the clear glass un...

Japanese Meiji porcelain Kutani vase hand painted with decorative and a figural panel dating between 1868 and 1912. The elegantly shaped tall ...

Elegantly adorned with intricate chinoiserie dragon detailing, this ceramic ochre yellow vase from Lambeth Doulton Faience exudes timeless charm and exquisite craftsmanship. Two meti...

Step into the enchanting world of antique elegance with our stunning Hand-Painted & Gilt Decorated Tall Porcelain Rose Vase. This exquisite piece is a testament to timeless beauty, a...

Introducing a magnificent antique porcelain vase from Limoges, France, crafted by D&C and hand-painted with intricate floral designs. This large vase showcases a lush arrangement of ...

Presenting an exquisite antique hand-painted porcelain floral vase from Vienna, Austria, crafted by the renowned PH Leonard Co. This stunning vase showcases a beautiful arrangement o...

A very good quality late 19th century Japanese Imari porcelain vase, having wonderful bold classical Imari colours of blue, orange and gilt. The ground with classical motif decoratio...

This is a beautiful, fairly tall 31+cm, Chinese Export, blue and white porcelain Baluster Vase, which we date to the 19th century, Qing Tongzhi period, Circa 1870. This is a well ha...

A fine pair of antique ormolu, gilt bronze, mounted Imari decorated porcelain baluster form vases. Wonderfully mounted with rococo style ormolu mounts, complete with feather plume f...

Classic pair of mid 19th Century Cobalt blue and gold portrait cabinet vases. The deep cobalt blue background with azure blue portrait profiles with hand gilt decoration. The gilt wo...

Pair of antique ormulu gilt bronze mounted ceramic vases. The vases are baluster in form with wonderful moulded and painted floral decoration in relief. Condition: There are chips ...

A large and impressive 19th Century Japanese Imari vase, having wonderful traditional bold orange and blue colours, with classical motif, foliate boarders and ground. Inset hand pain...

This is a stunning and very rare pair of vases made by Coalport in around 1845. The vases have rich gilding in the Persian Revival style, combined with very English floral reserves o...

This Royal Worcester globular porcelain two handled vase features an unusual hand painted and gilded decoration which comprises a series of irregular shaped cartouches formed by styl...

An Italian Majolica Hand Painted Majolica Pottery vase from the late 19th Century. The vase is a stunning example of hand crafted Italian Pottery. Close attention to Birds, folia...

19th Century French Hand-Painted Faience Vases Signed set of 2

A pair of bulbous classic cobalt blue and iron red Imari vases. The 7.5 inch tall vases with rounded bodies with small necks with had painted scenic views on each side, Japan, Circa...

A fine large antique porcelain baluster vase. In old Paris or vieux paris porcelain. By the Paris porcelain manufactory of Peter Anton Hannong. Handpainted to the base with a tro...

A charming vase by the storied English firm of Coalport. This sweetie features 2 handles, and an interesting hand painted scene with river, mountains, flora fauna accented with white...

Beautiful pair of japanese porcelain vases from Arita, Imari decor of a Shishi playing with butterflies among peonies. Signed From a French collection. Japan, Meiji Period, 19th cent...

Pair of Paris Two Handled Vases in Gold and Cobalt Blue. Pair of early 19th century Paris baluster shaped porcelain vases. Elaborately painted on each side with the most intricate p...

A large and impressive late 19th Century (Meiji period 1868-1912) Japanese blue and white vase on stand. Having wonderful hand painted bamboo to th...

A very fine and rare 19th century Royal Vienna Austrian vase. Palatial in size with the finest details . A hand painted classical scene signed Wagn...

Enhance your space in the timeless elegance of the late 19th Century Pair of Gilt and Polychrome Porcelain Vases. Crafted with meticulous attention to detail, each vase boasts a bott...

An exceptional pair of vases in enamelled opaline glass Circular body richly hand-painted all around with enamel decoration of bouquets and gilded scrolls beautifully cut and gilde...

19th century famile rose footed vase, this vase was likely a lamp (oil )originally, the rim has flowers, foliage, and butterflies, with foo dog handles on opposite sides. The main ...

An exceptional vase with two handles made of pink opaline alabaster glass by Moser painted all around with enamel decoration, the circular body is richly decorated with fine colourf...

Antique Pair of Hand Painted Opaline Glass Vases with Courting Scenes C1890 Measures- 15''H x 7''W x 7''D

A garniture of three antique English porcelain vases, heavily decorated with hand made porcelain flowers and hand painted with wonderfu...

French porcelain, Sevres, and bronze planter from the 19th century Sevres porcelain planter in an off-white tone with bronze base, handles and details. Hand painted with the artist's...

19th Century Chinese Famille Rose Baluster Vase, Richly Decorated with Picturesque Characters, Animals, Flowers and Foliage, illustrates a Scene of Life with Men and Women Surrounded...

A lovely pair of authentic antique 19th-Century hand blown mercury glass decorative vases from England. These stunning vases have stylish shapes with hand painted floral designs in a...

A lovely large pair of authentic antique 19th-Century hand blown mercury glass decorative vases from England. These stunning vases have stylish shapes with hand painted floral design...

On offer is a very fine small porcelain campana vase made circa year 1820 by an unknown Staffordshire potter. The vase has a beautiful delicate salmon colored ground, rich gilding an...

A remarkable pair of French faience earthenware vases by Faïencerie de Gien, likely late 19th century, double handled flared baluster amphor...

A beautiful pair of 19th century Chinese rose medallion / Cantonese vases, each with wonderful classical motif decorations in yellows, blue backgrounds. Inset hand painted panels of ...

A 19th French century pair of Lacquered Bamboos Japonisme vases. An amazing pair of tall cylindrical bamboo vases decorated in Japanese Gold and Sil-ver Hiramaki-E Lacquer with Pavilions in The Mist and Weaving Figures, Flown Over by a Pair of Cranes. Enclosed in a Sino-Japanese Inspiration Golden and Brown Patina Bronze Mount Featuring Elephant Heads, Partially Openwork Branches and Salamanders Forming Side Handles. Circa 1870 Attributed to Édouard Lièvre (1828-1886) and Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892) Édouard Lièvre (1828-1886) is one of the most talented and prolific designer and industrialist of the 19th Century, his repertoire is sometimes Sino-Japanese or Neo-Renaissance, whether in furniture or works of art, we can note in particular the parade bed of Valtesse de La Bigne, furniture commissioned by the painter Édouard Detaille or even Sarah Bernhardt, and the famous works in collaboration with Maison Christofle or those in gilded bronze and cloisonné enamel edited by Ferdinand Barbedienne, presented at the Universal Exhibitions in 1878, 1889 and 1900. He was both a draftsman, painter, illustrator, engraver, ornamentalist and cabinetmaker, first trained in the studio of the painter Thomas Couture, Lièvre was then fully immersed in the world of decoration, creation and ornamentation and provides designs for manufacturers and merchant-publishers. Often assisted by his brother Justin, he first produced works of art for his own apartment, seeking out the finest craftsmen to execute his designs for bronzes, ceramics, fabrics and luxury furniture from great virtuosity and great taste. He then collaborated with the cabinet-maker Paul Sormani, as well as haberdasher merchants such as the Escalier de Cristal, bronziers such as Maison Marnyhac and especially Ferdinand Barbedienne as on our vases with bronze mounts characteristics of Edouard Lièvre's work. Born in 1810, died in Paris in 1892, Ferdinand Barbedienne, the most important caster of bronze pieces of art during the second half of the 19th Century, created and directed in Par-is one of the major artistic foundries of his time. Barbedienne specialized in classical reproductions, whose models were exposed in famous European museums. Their illustrated catalogues included many diverse objects such as busts, ornemental sculpture (clocks, candelabras, cups) sometimes even life-sized and bronzes for furniture. Apart from his own produc-tion, Barbedienne worked for the most renowned sculptors such as Barrias, Clésinger and Carrier-Belleuse. All his works were highly esteemed and he, himself honored by contemporary critics. At the London exhibition in 1851 Barbedienne’s firm won two « Council medals ». At the 1855 Universal Exhibition, he won a medal of honor. The success of Barbedienne’s firm brought him many official commissions, such in about 1860, as Barbedienne supplied bronzes for furniture for the Pompeian Villa of Prince Napoléon-Joseph, located avenue Montaigne in Paris. At the London Universal Exhibition of 1862 Barbedienne won medals in three different categories: Furniture, Silversmith work and Artistic bronzes. Barbedienne was made an officer of the Légion d’Honneur in 1867 and Commander in 1878 when he was compared with « a prince of industry and the king of bronze casting ». His glory did not decline with the passage of the time for at the Universal Exhibition of 1889 the critics thanked Barbedienne for the example he set for other bronze-casters by the perfection of his bronzes. “Japonisme” in the second half of the 19th century, was a craze for everything that came from Japan or imitated its style. The word was first coined in a series of articles published by Philippe Burty, from May 1872 to February 1873, in the French magazine “la Renaissance Littéraire et Artistique”. Far from the Academic sphere, artists seeking for new ways of expression, appropriated this discovery. Manet and the impressionists led the way to half a century of enthusiasm for Japanese art, and largely contributed to the esthetical revolution Europe experienced between 1860 and the beginning of the twentieth century. From 1862, The World’s Fairs provoked massive arrivals of fans, kimonos, lacquers, bronzes, silks, prints and books that launched the real era of Japonisme. With those exhibitions, the demand was boosted, the number of merchants and collectors was multiplied, and artists became passionate about this new esthetic. For them, its “primitivism” was probably its most important quality: artists were fond of the Japanese art’s capacity to be close to nature and to reconcile art and society by representing, with a lot of care, the most trivial objects. In painting, Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Degas, Van Gogh, Gauguin were among those who were deeply inspired by Japanese art, affected by the lack of perspective and shadow, the flat areas of strong color, the compositional freedom in placing the subject off-center, with mostly low diagonal axes to the background. The Japanese iris, peonies, bamboos, kimonos, calligraphy, fish, butterflies and other insects, the blackbirds, cranes and wading birds, the cats, tigers, and dragons were endless sources of inspiration, appropriation, and reinterpretation for European artists. The occidental productions were combining styles and artistic conceptions instead of copying Japanese art slavishly. That is what brings to light the comparison between the artworks of Kitagawa Utamaro and Degas, of Katsushika Hokusai and Van Gogh The World’s Fairs of 1851 and 1862 in London, those of 1867, 1878, 1889 and 1900 in Paris, of 1873 in Vienna and of 1904 in Saint Louis presented a number of “Japanese-Chinese” installations with earthenware, bronzes, screens and paintings and attracted the largest amounts of visitors In Vienna, the “Japanese village...

Antique French Old Paris Porcelain Hand Painted & Gilt Spill Vase with Roses C1880 Measures- 14.75''H x 9''W x 6.75''D

Pair of Japanese Kutani vases decorated throughout with several panels (cartouches) in various sizes with motifs of birds, bats, flowers, foliate, trees a...

Japanese Imari vase, the interior rim is sparsely painted with stylized flowers and foliate, the baluster shaped body is boldly and profusely decorated with stylized flowers, foliat...

A good quality pair of late 19th Century Chinese export Blue and White crackleware vases / lamps. Each with faux bronze mounts above and below the central blue and white hand painted...

Signed on the underside by Gaetano Battaglia of Manifattura Battaglia, this tall hand-painted majolica ewer originates from Naples, Italy, circa 1870. Known as an istoriato (loosely ...

A very impressive 19th Century Japanese lidded Imari vase, having wonderful hand painted classical motif decoration, a Foo dog finial to the lid, inset panels depicting Geisha girls,...

A fine quality and imposing late 19th Century Japanese Imperial Satsuma vase. Having a cobalt blue ground, scrolling gilded foliate decoration to the...

A potpourri vase with double cover, pale yellow/beige ground with apple green details, Rococo shape with fruit finial and scroll handles and foot; a flower reserve on one side and a ...

A very impressive 19th Century Samson, Meissen style porcelain 'Snowball' ( Schneeballen) lidded vase. Of baluster shape encrusted with snowball blossoms, flowers and birds, the dome...

A good quality pair of late 19th Century Chinese Blue and White lidded vases, Foo dog finials to the lids, wonderful hand painted scenes of mountains, lakes and pagoda buildings, boa...

This exceptional pair is in very fine condition. They are over 150 years old. They were found in France where The bronze dore bases were added. No mark on the Bases. Dark blue liz...

This porcelain vase is a large and fine example representative of England's renowned Worcester Royal Porcelain Co Ltd, in the period from the late nineteenth century through to the 1930s. During that time, handpainting was a speciality at Royal Worcester and some of the most popular subjects were Highland cattle, a Scottish breed of cattle with long horns and long wavy coats, depicted grazing and browsing in their native pastures. The scenes on the vase were hand painted by John Stinton...

A blue ground pilgrim flask-shaped vase by famed English designer Christopher Dresser for Minton, circa 1870s. The foliage motif was most likely hand-painted by William Mussill...

A beautiful antique decorative pink porcelain Sèvres urn with a hand-painted background of a guitar musician and his lady. A Serenata scene. In the back a lake scene with a castle. ...

Pair of good quality late 19th Century Japanese lidded vases. each with a Foo Dog finial to the lid, wonderful bold blue and orange colours to the ground, classical motif and scrolli...

A fine quality pair of Turquoise coloured, Sevres style lidded vases. Each having this wonderful twisted reeds decoration, with hand painted flowers, gilded scrolling motifs between....