Antique Royal Vienna Hand Painted & Gilt Porcelain Urn with Cherub C1890

Antique Old Paris Porcelain Hand Painted & Gilt Figural Vase C1890 Measures - 10 5/8" x 5 3/4" x 5 3/4"

Antique Nippon Hand Enameled & Gilt Porcelain Vase with Lake Scene, Double Foliate Form Handles and Footed, C1920 Measures- 11.75''H x 5''W x 5''D

Antique French Porcelain Figural & Gilt Hand Painted Vase with Genre Scene & Pheasant Handles c1890 Measures - 10 1/4"h x 5"w x 5"d

Antique Old Paris Floral Decorated & Gilt Porcelain Vase C1890 Measures - 13 1/8" x 6 3/4" x 6 3/4"

A museum quality early 19th century Paris porcelain urn. The twin handled vase sits on a rectangular porcelain base (modelled as part of the vase), which is decorated on all four sides with finely painted scenes titled 'Gene de Corrinte', 'Gene de Mytilene', 'Gene de Sparte', and 'Gene de Chiu' in reference to various Greek city states. The ovoid body of the vase is richly decorated with Greek key and stylized acanthus designs over and below a large gilt framed oval cameo of Athena on one side and a similar cameo on the other side bearing an undecipherable name. The overall background colour scheme of the vase is dark red/burgundy and dark emerald green, two colours which were more commonly used by the Dagoty factory in Paris than other porcelain manufacturing firms at the time. The vase is unsigned. Note: Pierre Louis Dagoty's porcelain was characterized by the use of vivid colours and the thick application of burnished gold leaf. He borrowed from the repertoire of Neoclassical ornament but his designs also included Egyptian and Chinoiseries motifs. Dagoty's elegant ceramics won him the patronage of Empress Joséphine. At the height of production, in 1807, he employed over a hundred workers, and exported his wares to Russia. After the fall of the First French Empire in 1814, manufacture continued under the Duchesse d'Angoulême, the only surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Between 1816 and 1820, Dagoty worked in partnership with François Maurice Honoré. In 1817. Dagoty and Honoré received a commission from President James Monroe...

Small Austrian porcelain vase from the 19th century. Ancient porcelain vase entirely hand painted and gilt with gold from the XIX century of ...

A large gilded and painted Paris Porcelain Vase, France circa 1815 The picture in the front reproduces a painting by the French artist Louis Ducis (14 July 1775, Versailles - 2 March 1847, Paris) of Torquato Tasso...

This vintage palace size French Sevres porcelain covered urn dates from the late 19th century. It is elaborately decorated & embellished with gilt bronze ornamentation. The covered u...