Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Umbrella Stand

The modern umbrella stand decorated with 19th century folio leather bindings. With a label at the bottom showing the provenance as Kenneth Neame, Mayfair...

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...

Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Cylindrical Umbrella Stand, with painted landscape scene vignettes surrounded by floral design, six character mark to underside. 18.5" H x 9.25" Diam...

Place this tall, elegant stand at your front door or in your mudroom to catch loose canes and umbrellas. Crafted in France, circa 1950 by Gédé, the circular porcelain umbrella holder...