Large Mason's Ironstone Vase Mounted as a Lamp

Of archaistic form with brown craquelure overall and broad matte band with low relief decoration; mounted on a turned giltwood base and fitted with gold-lacquered brass adjustable ro...

Featuring a floral wreath of roses, hydrangea, and daffodils encircling a classical maiden in deshabille, set below a morning glory, on a periwinkle ground; mounted on a turned giltw...

Of square tapering form; decorated with a peacock and tree peony branch in a bold polychrome palette; mounted on a black wood square base. Fitted with a brass adjustable rod and two ...

With craquelure finish, exaggerated long neck and silvered wood base. Height to top of vase is 24".

Each of square tapering form mounted on a turned gilt base, fitted with adjustable brass rod and two-light sockets, height of vase is 15.5".

With black paper shade. Later mounted as a lamp. Provenance: From the estate of Doris Duke

A wonderful lamp with good detail and fine coloring.

A Japanese hand painted earthenware vase mounted as Lamp. Of fluted ovoid form painted in imitation of cloisonné enamel with panels of figures and animals in a garden within fluted ...

This is a rather stunning Chinese porcelain vase made for export to the West in the early 20th century. The vase has been mounted on a heavy brass base. The porcelain is painted wit...

This very large Chinese Qing Dynasty monochrome Mieping vase with a Yongzheng reign mark mounted as a lamp is in a rich bottle green while marked with a Yongzheng (1722- 1735) reign ...

The voluptuous body of the vase of bulbous form, rising to broad shoulders and a short flared neck. The vase is covered in a stunning and complex vitreous oxblood red glaze, with are...

17th Century Dutch Delft Octagonal Faience Vase mounted in brass and decorated with a chinoiserie décor of fighting warriors and exotic landscape. The dimensions indicated herein are those of the vase with the fittings and lampshade. The mounted vase only is approximately 10in. high and 7in. diameter. The arrival in Western Europe of the first shiploads of Chinese porcelain, lacquerware, ivory and silk in the 17th century stimulated interest in China, or Cathay, as it was then called. Europeans soon began copying the Chinese artworks and decorative objects. These decorative arts inspired by China, which enjoyed their heyday in the late 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, are known as chinoiserie. Soon after the introduction of expensive Chinese...