Pair of Romantic Yellow Tole Urns Mounted as Lamps

Each urn cast with frieze of classical figures, raised on a bronze-mounted rouge griotte square marble base. The lampshades are silk and custom made by Blanche Field...

Each vase of baluster shape, painted with pheasants perched on rockwork flanked by large flowering tree peonies beneath iron-red lappets enclosing flowers. For a similar example (a s...

The standing draped female figure carrying a torch surmounted by a light locket, raised on a circular base with a laurel wreath border above a square plinth. Electrified with silk cu...

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...

Late 17th Century Dutch Delft Faience Blue and White Chinoiserie Baluster Vase Mounted as a Lamp and newly electrified. Decorated in imitation of a Chinese Ming vase with a sage, rocks and vegetation, mounted on a wood base. The dimensions noted include the lampshade and electrical fittings. The vase as mounted in wood is approximately 10in. high and 6in. 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...

Each urn with a cone finial, the collar carved with interlaces and a tapered fluted body on a spreading socle. Formerly with spigots. Provenance: Ginsburg & Levy, Inc., New York Bos...

This handsome pair of lamps are at once highly ornamental and useful. An oversized pair of Japanese bronze vases of tall bottle form, each with a bulbous lower section embellished wi...

Of ovoid form with classical figures cast in relief Maker: Ferdinand Barbedienne (1838-1953) Origin: French Date: late 19th century Dimension: 29 in high

19th century Chinoiserie decorated tole urn mounted as a lamp.

Mounted as a lamp, of ovoid form, decorated with oval medallions depicting classical figures on a gilt decorated cream ground, hung with floral garland continuing to a flared neck an...

Mounted as a lamp, of ovoid form, decorated with oval medallions depicting classical figures on a gilt decorated black ground, hung with a floral garland continuing to a flared neck ...

An exceptional pair of large scale Paris porcelain vases decorated with floral panels on one side and a stylised floral motif to the other side. Each body with gilded seaweed decorat...