18th Century and Earlier Ceramics

This ancient ‘neck amphora’ is full of character, with two asymmetrical nipples or protrusions on its base and raised decorations at the top of its handles. Crafted 4,000 years ago,...

Small Chinese?porcelain?jar by Maison Escalier de Cristal, with polychromatic decoration of blossoms, foliage and floral motifs. Late 18th century?porcelain, 19th century gilt bronze mounts. The lid chiseled with foliages is topped by a pine cone finial and the base is decorated with a laurel crown. Good vintage condition. L’Escalier de Cristal, Parisian firm created in 1804 by Marie Desarnaud, famous under the French Restauration for its decorative objects combining crystal and bronze. She was awarded a gold medal at the 1819 Paris Exposition des Produits de l’Industrie for an outstanding gilt-bronze mounted crystal dressing table. Located in Paris, at the Palais-Royal, Galerie de Valois, L’Escalier de Cristal was bought out around 1830 by Boin, and then by Lahoche in 1840. The company owed its rise to a position amongst the most important Paris decorative wares shops to Lahoche, who expanded considerably the business and entered later in partnership with his son-in-law to set up in 1852 Lahoche et Pannier...

A refined early Edo Period Kakiemon bowl with an octagonal rim. The interior of the bowl with a restrained decoration in overglazed enamels in the typical Kakiemon palette. One sid...