Vintage Victorian Bavarian Style Cartouche/Vase - a Pair

Enhance your space with this vintage Chinese red flower porcelain vase, featuring hand-painted floral motifs and timeless elegance. Perfect for collectors. We sell items as acquir...

Vintage Chinese Hand-Painted Porcelain Vase featuring intricate floral motifs and traditional artistry, perfect for elegant home decor. We sell items as acquired, without restorin...

Vintage Chinese Hand-Painted Porcelain Vase with intricate floral motifs, showcasing traditional artistry for a striking centerpiece. We sell items as acquired, without restoring ...

Vintage Italian Chinoiserie Satin Glass Vase with hand-painted designs and satin finish, ideal for adding sophistication to your decor. We sell items as acquired, without restorin...

- Unusual pair of Victorian-style brass boots - Beautifully cast - Shoes are steeped in custom, symbolic meaning and stories; Cinderella, Dorothy. Shoes were offered as gifts on special occasions in the 17th and 18th centuries often exchanged between lovers as a symbol of good luck in marriage. - These boots were either made as ornaments, gifts, or vases Originally, boots and shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or cobblers (also known as cordwainers). In the 18th century, dozens or even hundreds of masters, journeymen and apprentices (both men and women) would work together in a shop, dividing up the work into individual tasks. A customer could come into a shop, be individually measured, and return to pick up their new shoes in as little as a day. Everyone needed shoes, and the median price for a pair was about one day’s wages for an average journeyman. The shoemaking trade flourished in the 18th and early 19th centuries but began to be affected by industrialization in the later 19th century. Traditional handicraft shoemaking has now been largely superseded in volume of shoes produced by Industrial mass production of footwear, but not necessarily in quality, attention to detail, or craftsmanship. Today, most shoes are made on a volume basis, rather than a craft basis. A pair of "bespoke...

Bavarian German mid-century rectangular white porcelain vase with organic structural ripple design accented by thin gilt painted lines. (mark on bottom ESCHENBACH BAVARIA...

Pair of French Victorian Jacob Petit style porcelain red, white and blue vases with bird scene and scroll handles.

A Gorgeous Pair of Antique Chinese 19th Century, Qing Dynasty, Cloisonne Multi-Cartouche Blue Ground Gu Form Vases. These vases feature a surface detailed with birds, plants, and cl...