Very Rare and Large Pair of 19th Century Pink Paris Porcelain Vases

A pair of Ormolu-mounted Beau Bleu 'Sèvres' porcelain vases Beautifully hand-painted on a dark cobalt blue background, each vase supported on square ormolu bases with incurved cor...

A Pair of Gilt White Opaline Vases by Baccarat Standing over a foot tall, the pair of vases of circular and tapering form, finely decorated with gilt landscapes populated with bird...

A rare and finely decorated pair of porcelain ice cream pails on stands, The decoration of the vases is outstanding: the four medallions representing neoclassical mythological scenes of Bacchus, Ceres, Ariadne and Europa surrounded by intricate motives "a grottesca" in vibrant colours and raised gilding. Fashionable in antiquity, for example in the Pompeian "Third Style", revisited among others in the Renaissance by Raphael in the Logge Vaticane,  the "grottesche" acquired renewed popularity in the early 1800,  with the extensive decorations for example of Villa Borghese and Palazzo Milzetti in Italy, or the Procuratie Nuove in Venice, formerly the Palazzo Reale. In  in the mid XIX century Vienna, the Historismus movement revisited the idea too, an example is the 1862 decoration of newly built Renaissance Style Museum fur Angewandte Kunst. Our vases are a refined example of fashionable, elegant decoration at work: the ice cream pail was used in the setting up of the dessert display...

A pair of gilt bronze and champlevé enamel vases Constructed from solid fire-gilded bronze, the miniature decorative vases supported on square plinths rising from paw feet, the co...

A pair of French Sèvres style monumental pink vases with hand painted scenes depicting noble French lovers dining on a garden table. Dimensions: (cm) ...

This is a well matched pair of Bohemian or French handblown vases shading from a subtle pale rose to a slightly darker shade as it reaches the top rim. They are decorated with an Aes...

Mid 19th century pair of Old Paris Porcelain decorative vases / urns with exterior gilt gold painted design detail scenes. Each vase featuring two gilt handles and painted scenes of ...

Pair of large French opaline vases, circa 1830.