Chinese Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Tea drinking has been an integral part of Chinese culture for centuries, resulting in a wide range of social customs and material traditions. In addition to tea leaves, water, and he...

A pair of Chinese game pots offer porcelain construction with bird and foliate paint decoration and flanking figural bird handles, maker stamp on bases as photographed, 20th century ...

Antique 'famille rose' (also referred to as 'rose medallion') porcelain plate - hand painted with a courtyard scene to the center - floral and foliate bor...

Chinese gilt-bronze mounted rose medallion center piece bowl, 19th century. A stunning Centerpiece of Chinese deisgn having a circular tapering form, with pierced Greek key designed ...

Stylish hand painted Chinese or Japanese cloisonné enamel heavy gauge gilt bronze two section table casket or spice container of hexagonal outline and of exceptional quality. These r...

An antique Chinese Cloisonne lidded server offers enameled design with repeating butterfly reserves and floral collar, raised on three cone form feet, circa 1900. Measures - 3.5" ...

A Chinese bronze bowl on stand in the form of a tazza with wonderful verdigris patina. Warring States style (2-3rd century BC). The dish top border...

An antique Chinese low bowl offers hand hammered bronze construction with five ribs and shallow foot, 19th century Measures: 9.5" W x 2" D.

A fine pair of Chinese or Tibetan bronze tazzas, the bowls with a shaped and raised border with etched decoration. The base in the form of a lotus flower. Originally offering bowls, ...

A fine 19th century Chinese Canton export porcelain and French bronze gilt mounted / ormolu porcelain centrepiece. Chinese / French, circa 1...

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...

This rare and exquisite rose medallion porcelain bowl was realized in China, likely for an American market, circa 1840, when the West demonstrated a voracious demand for products of ...