England - Vases and Vessels

This is a large antique moon vase. A Chinese, ceramic decorative flower urn with hand-painted decoration, dating to the Qing dynasty during the late Victor...

This is a tall vintage display vase. An English, cut crystal glass flower sleeve, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1990. Appealing tapered form with a bright, decorative appea...

This is an antique decorative vase. An English, cut glass flower vase, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1880. Of great colour and acc...

This is a pair of vintage display vases. An English, ceramic flower urn with figural decoration, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1970. Delightfully presented with classic blue and white finish and charming detail. Appealing urn form, ideal for floral displays or decorative shelving Finished in quintessential blue and white palette, evoking traditional ceramics Gilt painted accents to the rim and foot add a touch of refined elegance Each vase hosts a figural scene, with a pair of young girls — one whispering softly into the other's ear Reverse side decorated with a whimsical Oriental influenced forest landscape Crafted in ceramic with a lightly time-worn finish, in good vintage order throughout Maker's mark to base for Lord Nelson Ware of Staffordshire A delightful decorative duo, sure to bring charm and conversation to any setting This pair of vintage English ceramic vases...

This exquisite late 19th-century French Sevres-style porcelain lidded potpourri vase stands at an impressive 56 cm high, showcasing the elegance and artistry characteristic of the er...

This mid-century Beswick ceramic vase revisits a 1930s Art Deco design by Mr. Symcox, reissued in the 1950s by the renowned English pottery firm. Its urn-like modernist silhouette is...

Pair of Minton Majolica vases which feature daffodils stood on bulb feet. Cobalt blue ground version. Colouration: cobalt blue, green, white, are predominant. The piece bears maker's...

An impressive early 20th Century American iridescent glass vase of slender form with green hearts shining through an attractive golden iridescence, signed L C Tiffany Favrile and numbered to base. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 23 cm Condition: Very Good Condition Circa: 1905 Materials: Iridescent Coloured Glass SKU: 6667 ABOUT Louis Comfort Tiffany Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. Tiffany was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewellery, enamels and metalwork. Early Life He was born in New York City, New York, the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany and Company; and Harriet Olivia Avery Young. He attended school at Pennsylvania Military Academy in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. His first artistic training was as a painter, studying under George Inness in Eagleswood, New Jersey and Samuel Colman in Irvington, New York. He also studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1866-67 and with salon painter Leon-Adolphe-Auguste Belly in 1868-69. Belly’s landscape paintings had a great influence on Tiffany. Career Louis started out as a painter, but became interested in glassmaking from about 1875 and worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn between then and 1878. In 1879, he joined with Candace Wheeler, Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists. The business was short-lived, lasting only four years. The group made designs for wallpaper, furniture, and textiles. He later opened his own glass factory in Corona, New York, determined to provide designs that improved the quality of contemporary glass. Tiffany’s leadership and talent, as well as his father’s money and connections, led this business to thrive. In 1881 Tiffany did the interior design of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, which still remains, but the new firm’s most notable work came in 1882 when President Chester Alan Arthur refused to move into the White House until it had been redecorated. He commissioned Tiffany, who had begun to make a name for himself in New York society for the firm’s interior design work, to redo the state rooms, which Arthur found charmless. He worked on the East Room, the Blue Room, the Red Room, the State Dining Room and the Entrance Hall, refurnishing, repainting in decorative patterns, installing newly designed mantelpieces, changing to wallpaper with dense patterns and, of course, adding Tiffany glass to gaslight fixtures, windows and adding an opalescent floor-to-ceiling glass screen in the Entrance Hall. The Tiffany screen and other Victorian additions were all removed in the Roosevelt renovations of 1902, which restored the White House interiors to Federal style in keeping with its architecture. A desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885 when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm that same year. The first Tiffany Glass Company was incorporated December 1, 1885 and in 1902 became known as the Tiffany Studios. In the beginning of his career, he used cheap jelly jars and bottles because they had the mineral impurities that finer glass lacked. When he was unable to convince fine glassmakers to leave the impurities in, he began making his own glass. Tiffany used opalescent glass in a variety of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass. He developed the “copper foil” technique, which, by edging each piece of cut glass in copper foil and soldering the whole together to create his windows and lamps, made possible a level of detail previously unknown. This can be contrasted with the method of painting in enamels or glass paint on colorless glass, and then setting the glass pieces in lead channels, that had been the dominant method of creating stained glass for hundreds of years in Europe. (The First Presbyterian Church building of 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is unique in that it uses Tiffany windows that partially make use of painted glass.) Use of the colored glass itself to create stained glass pictures was motivated by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and its leader William Morris in England. Fellow artists and glassmakers Oliver Kimberly and Frank Duffner, founders of the Duffner and Kimberly Company and John La Farge were Tiffany’s chief competitors in this new American style of stained glass. Tiffany, Duffner and Kimberly, along with La Farge, had learned their craft at the same glasshouses in Brooklyn in the late 1870s. In 1889 at the Paris Exposition, he is said to have been “Overwhelmed” by the glass work of Émile Gallé, French Art Nouveau artisan. He also met artist Alphonse Mucha. In 1893, Tiffany built a new factory called the Stourbridge Glass Company, later called Tiffany Glass Furnaces, which was located in Corona, Queens, New York, hiring the Englishman Arthur J. Nash to oversee it. In 1893, his company also introduced the term Favrilein conjunction with his first production of blown glass at his new glass factory. Some early examples of his lamps were exhibited in the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. At the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, he won a gold medal with his stained glass windows The Four Seasons He trademarked Favrile (from the old French word for handmade) on November 13, 1894. He later used this word to apply to all of his glass, enamel and pottery. His first commercially produced lamps date from around 1895. Much of his company’s production was in making stained glass windows and Tiffany lamps, but his company designed a complete range of interior decorations. At its peak, his factory employed more than 300 artisans. Recent scholarship led by Rutgers professor Martin Eidelberg suggests that a team of talented single women designers – sometimes referred to as the “Tiffany Girls” – led by Clara Driscoll played a big role in designing many of the floral patterns on the famous Tiffany...

An attractive late 19th Century French cameo glass souffle vase decorated with raised deep red and burgundy flowers against a variegating yellow field. Exhibiting excellent detail an...

Large Meissen flower-encrusted potpourri vase in the Rococo-style German, 19th Century Height 72cm, width 32cm, depth 29cm Crafted by Meissen, the olde...

A very Fine Pair of Japanese Two Handled Vases Meji Period C1890 Very Decorative

Cizhou stoneware vessel, dating to the Ming dynasty, 17th century. Traditional urn-shaped stoneware, decorated with dark brown brushwork on a ligh...

This is an antique decorative planter. A Chinese, bronze relief jardiniere in Qing dynasty taste, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Wonderfully eye-catching example o...

Vintage Italian ceramic vase in Rimini Blu with geometric motif by Aldo Londi for Bitossi (circa 1960s). Rimini Blu was devised by Aldo Londi in 1959 and quickly became the company's...

Mid-century decorative tall vase by Albert Thiry (circa 1960s). A gentle creamy-white glaze encompasses the exterior of the tall vase (it could also be used as an umbrella holder) to...

Wedgwood Flame Fairyland Lustre Covered Vase. The body of the vase is decorated with the three repeating patterns. Fairy Slide depicts a sycamore tree with a slide and various strang...

Hallmarked in London in 1901 by Mappin & Webb, this handsome pair of Antique, Edwardian, Sterling Silver Vases, are plain in design, and of larger than usual size. Each vase measures...

Brutalist Mid century modern stoneware vase. England, mid 20th century. A sculptural, hand thrown studio pottery vase with a wonderful natural textured glazed finish, Good size, ex...

Violante Lodolo D'Oria, Variegated Aqua Blue Rosetta Vessel, 2024, glazed stoneware, multiple glazes, W41cm x H25cm New stunning piece created by ceramic artist Violante Lodolo d' ...

Bring a touch of Mediterranean history and artistry to your space with this Vintage Handcrafted Anatolian Clay Jug. A testament to traditional craftsmanship, this piece was expertly ...

Large pair of floral Chinese cloisonné enamel vases on wooden plinths Chinese, 20th Century Height 123cm, diameter 52cm This impressive pair of Chinese cloisonné enamel vases are de...

A large and imposing pair of antique glazed green stoneware urns. Dating from circa 1890, this beautifully preserved antique urns features an iridescent green lustre and striking ga...

Chinese early twentieth century black enamelled vase decorated with birds and butterflies around a flowering peony tree. Small chip under the heel of the vase

Pair of mid 19th Century Victorian antique porcelain vases which have black tapering bodies decorated with beautifully painted birds nests, butterflies and flowers in wonderful colou...

'Peachy II' is a unique ceramic sculptural vessel by the British artist, Jo Taylor. Taylor’s inspiration comes from highly decorative architectural features such as ornate plaster c...

Vintage French ceramic cachepôt by Roger Capron (circa 1960s). A luscious creamy white base with a top band in a repeating pattern in lovely blues; below that another with leaf motif...

Pair of very large Chinese cloisonné enamel vases with French ormolu mounts Chinese and French, 20th century Height 215cm, diameter 78cm These superb vases bring together exceptional Chinese enamelling with ornate French ormolu mounts, combining the complex cloisonné technique with sumptuously detailed gilt-bronze additions. The ovoid-form vases are applied with lavish natural designs on the main body, decorated with eye-catching birds and butterflies amongst flowers and shrubbery. The animal and foliate motifs are set on top of a cream ground with intricate geometric patterning that emphasises the elaborate design of the vases. The necks of the vases are similarly decorated with birds and greenery. The necks and feet also feature ornate geometric patterns that complement the natural colour palette of the main body, adding further intricacy to the enamelled designs. Surmounting the vases is a pierced ormolu rim, which features acanthus-style and pineapple designs which complement the foliate imagery on the vases below. Each vase is mounted on four gilt-bronze feet cast in the shape of Chinese 'Foo' winged lions, combining impressive Chinese motifs with exceptional French craftsmanship. Cross-cultural pieces like these vases were highly popular decorative wares in late 19th century Europe; likewise, this pair effortlessly synthesise the design styles of the East and the West into monumental items with ornate and colourful designs. Provenance: From the collection of Larry Flynt...

For your consideration is this very attractive and totally original 1930's Art Deco ladies powder/ trinket box. Made from porcelain with a vibrantly colored painted finish. Highly fu...

Pair of Early 20th Century Desvres Delft Covered Vase. Profusely decorated with bird finials to lids. One small Chip to rim of one vase France Circa 1920.

Greek Black Glaze Kantharos Circa Early 4th Century B.C. Terracotta With old label reading ‘No. 133’ Height: 8.8 cm This 4th Century B.C. kan...

This is a vintage trumpet vase. An English, cut glass decorative flower pot, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1960. Superb example of cut g...

Large pair of quality antique 19th century porcelain and ornate brass mounted vases having an ornate beautiful brass circular top with hand painted decoration to the inside of the v...

This is a pair of large vintage baluster urns. An Oriental, ceramic set from the Art Deco period, dating to the mid-20th century, circa 1940. Wond...

This is a pair of vintage cloisonné posy vases. A Chinese, painted enamel flower baluster, dating to the late Art Deco period, circa 1940. Graced with wonderful colour and tonalit...

This is a tall vintage Murano flower vase. An Italian, blown glass vase, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1950. Crisp white colour and appeal...

This fabulous glass vase was made by Daum in Nancy, France in the 1970s. It looks very much like a piece of sculpture - no surprise given it's designer was César Baldaccini! Titled...

A very fine Aesthetic Movement Royal Worcester twin handled vase hand painted with floral designs dated 1899. The small, elegant porcelain vase stands raised on a square pedestal bas...

Per Lütken for Holmegaard Heart-shaped vase from the 'Menuet' series, designed 1957, this example from 1961 Clear grey-blue tinted blown glass Underside engraved 'PL 1961 Holmeg...

Magnificent early 20th Century secessionist glass vase cased with iridescent pink and golden colour with a beautiful geometric applied silver decoration in the Secessionist manner A...

An attractive early 20th Century cameo pillow glass vase etched and enamelled with flowering poppies in a deep green and yellow landscape. Signed Daum Nancy and with the Cross of Lor...

Large and rare pair of early 19th Century Chinese Famille Rose Fish Bowls. Each with wonderful bold colours, a rich green ground, classical boarders ...

This is a vintage teardrop posy vase. An English, art glass flower sleeve, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1970. Excellent colour and blown glass form Displays a desirable ag...

A large heavily textured volcanic vase with black, white and brown glaze and markings. Wide necked vessel with a bellied form. Made from black textured s...

For your consideration is this original 1930's Art Deco perfume atomizer with it's own original chrome stand. Features a silhouette of a fema...

A stunning Art Nouveau iridescent glass vase applied with green trailed thread patterning attributed to Palme König and dating from the early 20th century....

A mid-19th Century cast iron French Medici Urn in a beautifully worn teal paint, with flashes of the original cream paint showing, and overall aged patina. This urn is of superb a...

Art Nouveau Copper Planter c 1900 with Stylised Tulip Decoaration - 10"diam x 8"h

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this medium sized Art Deco Antique cut glass Crystal Perfume bottle flask with sterling silver cap A very ...

A striking square glass perfume bottle, featuring a combination of clear and frosted finishes and adorned with Lalique’s iconic Masque de Femme panel. Accented with a black tassel an...

An Exhibition Gilt-Bronze and Champlevé Enamel Jardinière, By George Servant, Paris. This magnificent ‘Louis Seize’ jardinière is designed in the Néo-Grec style. The handles are su...

Large pair of Sèvres-style porcelain vases with Napoleonic scenes French, Late 19th Century Height 123cm, diameter 40cm Standing at over a metre in height, these impressive baluster form vases are painted with scenes of Napoleonic victory. The vases are notable for the deep green ground that adorns the neck and foot – unusual for such Sèvres-style objects. The green is complemented by superb parcel gilt decoration, which includes large ‘N’ initials...

Cosmos extends the exploration into manually anodised aluminium pieces. Building on the success of Grow-UP planters for MCQ in 2021, the collection showcases abstract anodising dye p...

A large black terracotta vessel from the Trás-os-Montes region of north east Portugal. Originally used for the storage of oil/wine. Heavily patinated with ripply texture. Complime...

Bring timeless character to your space with this vintage Anatolian clay jar, a handcrafted vessel that reflects the rich pottery traditions of Anatolia. With its earthy tones, organi...

A stunning studio pottery drip glazed vase by Roy Newman made at Pear Tree Pottery in Sheffield. The stoneware vase is of rounded bulbous shape standing o...

A stunning antique Thomas Forester hand painted art pottery vase decorated with large flowering blooms dating from around 1890. The lightly potted earthenware vase stands on a narrow...

Jean Gerbino for Vallauris, France, ceramic glazed blue, green and terracotta banded mosaic ball vase Gerbino uses the Neriage technique to attain such intriguing patterns A genero...

Vintage ceramic vase (or pencil holder if you prefer) by Raymonde Leduc (circa 1970s). Sandstone coloured small vessel with plant motifs inlaid on all four sides. In good overall con...

Just Andersen of Denmark Art Deco Disko metal, shaped vase with twin handles to neck. Understated dark grey patina and original in design Scandinavian metalware at it's best Stamped ...

Moroccan Glass Vase – Blue Moroccan Glass Vase – Blue. Hand-made in Morocco. The glass is mouth blown and available in an assortment of colours. Approx...