England Vases

These truly exceptional and rare antique Louis XVI period vases have been sculpted from agate, a precious and highly sought-after stone. The vases are set on square agate bases with gilt bronze laurel wreath socles. The burgundy and claret agate bodies of the vases are mounted with gilt bronze acanthus leaf ornamentation, and twin lion masks joined by draped swags above. The lids of the vases are mounted with gilt bronze, surmounted by pine cone finials. The vases' design is attributed to the late 18th century, French clockmaker Martin Baffert. Baffert worked with a number of Parisian bronziers including Jean-Nicholas Fremont, Nicolas-Guillaume Jourdan and Francois-Robert Leguel, who assisted in the creation of his designs. This pair of vases is very similar to another pair of vases which Baffert designed, which form part of a clock garniture currently in the Rothschild collection at Waddesdon Manor. The Rothschild vases...

A beautifully made pair of single flower vases in blown glass and ormolu by baccarat C1890s

Art Deco faceted form fine earthenware vase, with stylised geometric motifs. Designed by Charles Catteau for Boch Frères Keramis. Printed marks. Circa late 1920's. A good size and ...

Outstanding quality garniture of three antique Japanese imari shaped vases, having a garniture of three vases consisting of one large vase and two smaller vases, having bulbous shape...

Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre Baluster Vase decorated with the “Candlemas” Design by Daisy Makeig Jones Batch 81 63113. UNKZZ

Fantastic quality pair of large antique Japanese Imari vases in wonderful hand painted red, blue and white colours decorated with a basket of flowers to the front and back surrounded...

Pair of large Sèvres style gilt porcelain mounted vases. French, Late 19th century. Height 97cm, diameter 26cm. These beautiful vases are a p...

A wonderful Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912) Bronze overlay vase. Having exquisite and amusing scenes in relief, patinated and overlay of a Dog of Foo, a Frog fishing in a Lotus lea...

Meiji bronze vase, of striking simple form dating from the mid 19th century. Finely cast with beautiful dark patina.

Paul Philp (British, born 1941) Contemporary hand built stoneware vessel 51cm high, 41cm wide, 16cm deep Stamped with potter’s seal to base In perfect condition Previously lecturer...

A large op art "Tetris" bisque matt-white porcelain vase which was manufactured by Heinrich Ceramics in Germany during the 1970s. A stunning brutalist 3...

This sleek work of Scandinavian Modern art glass is by Vicke Lindstrand (b. 1904 - d. 1983). Lindstrand is considered one of the most influential 20th-century glass artists and a gla...

This is an antique slip vase. An English, glass and lead flower pot with Art Nouveau taste, dating to the Edwardian period, circa 1910. Striking green ...

An important and extremely large pair of Magenta Ground Vienna Porcelain Exhibition vases. Austrian, circa 1900. Each vase with blue underglazed ‘Beehive’ mark to interior of neck. Each vase is finely painted with classical scenes to the front and allegorical scenes to the back on a rich magenta ground with gilt foliate decoration. The vases are mounted by extraordinary gilt handles headed by winged female masks to the sides and grotesque masks to the shoulders. The spreading necks decorated with Greek key decoration are surmounted by domed covers and the vases are raised on baluster form supports put down on drum bases finely painted with panels stylised arabesque. The Vienna Porcelain Manufactory was founded in 1718 only eight years after Johann Friedrich Bottger and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus had succeeded in unearthing the secret of Porcelain Manufacture for August the Strong, Elector of Saxony. On May 25, 1718, Emperor Karl VI signed a "special privilege" awarding Claudius Innocentius du Paquier the exclusive right to produce porcelain in the Austrian crown lands. Production being almost exclusively for the imperial household and the court nobility. During the rococo era, Empress Maria Theresia placed the company under imperial ownership and it was during this period that the manufactory began to produce the famous rococo genre scenes after Watteau. Under the management of Conrad Sorgel von Sorgenthal, the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory achieved an international reputation for its neo-classical style. After the wars with France brought the manufactory to the brink of ruin, the Vienna Congress at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century gave porcelain from Vienna a renewed upswing. Many important personalities of the time, including Czar Alexander I of Russia...

A Pair of Sèvres-Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Two Handled Vases with Covers, each painted with a continuous scene within a 'jewelled' gilt and bleu celeste border. The front of each v...

These cloisonné enamel vases are wonderful pieces of Chinese decorative art. They were crafted in the last decade of the Qing dynasty, which lasted from 1644 to 1911. The vases a...

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...

Talwin Morris style of, an Arts & Crafts Glasgow School cylindrical copper vase with wonderful oblong enamels to each side and stylised elongated tree de...

Rene Lalique clear and frosted glass 'Borneo' vase. The pattern features birds perched amongst fern-like foliage. The birds are painted in black enamel and the foliage has sepia stai...

Schiller Majolica vase which features a peacock seated on a pedestal. Coloration: blue, green, yellow, are predominant. The piece bears maker's marks for ...

A fine pair of Bohemian clear cut glass vases, Each with a flaring domed lid surmounted by a octagonal finial, scenes of wildlife through a landscape, R...

This is a small vintage single stem vase. A Chinese, sterling silver decorative posy flute, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1960. Charmingly ...

Pair of large jewel-toned painted porcelain vases by Royal Vienna Austrian, Late 19th Century Height 80cm, width 38cm, depth 27cm These exquisite Royal Vienna porcelain vases date ...

A large 19th-century Chinese rice wine jar From Shanxi Province - circa 1890. Displaying a graceful design where elements of the hand-shaped details are ...

Pair of vintage 1960s Scandinavian purple glass vases which I am selling together because of their interlocking design. The vase with the bulbous middle has a tiny chip on the insid...

A delightful and stylish pair Art Nouveau Doulton Lambeth twin handled vases with stylized floral designs by artists Ethel Beard and Florrie Jones and dating from around 1905. The st...

A beautiful large pair of Japanese Satsuma baluster vases by Taizan, Meiji era, (1868-1912) converted to lamps, dating from the second half of the  19th century. Each vase thickly p...

A rounded, medium-sized vase made and designed in Denmark by K H Würtz. The glaze of this unique art piece from the small Danish workshop, artfully accentuates the lightly tapered ...

A very impressive pair of 19th century Chinese rose medallion / cantonese two handled vases. Each with wonderful bold coloring to the inset painted panels depicting interior scenes o...

This beautiful vase was created by the world-famous Meissen porcelain factory. Meissen was established in the early 18th century, making it the first producer of hard-paste porcelain...

A Memphis Milano Alcor glass vase designed by Ettore Sottsass, made by Compagnia Vetraria Muranese, designed 1983, clear, green and opaque white glass swollen panels, applied with bl...

A large fine quality late 19th century (Meiji period 1868-1912) Japanese bronze vase. Having wonderful raised jeweled decoration depicting a merchant showing his wares. Measures: 58 ...

A stunning vibrant cameo glass vase etched and enamelled with brightly colored trees in the foreground against a hilly background and deep sky blue horizon, exhibiting excellent colo...

This is a vintage baluster vase. A Chinese, ceramic decorative display vase, dating to the late Art Deco period, circa 1940. Presents the iconic white and blue finish with Oriental taste Displays a desirable aged patina, free of marks or cracks White ceramic hosts the dashing, bright cobalt blue A pair of sinuous dragons wrap around the body of the vase Bold patterns decorate the rim, neck and lower edge Replete with a Chinese character mark to the base This is a striking vintage baluster vase, with the enduring Chinese dragon decor...

A very good quality pair of large late 19th Century Japanese Imari vases, each with rippled flared necks, classical hand painted motif decoration to the boarders, and inset panels de...

‘Blue Skies' is a unique glass sculptural vessel by the British artist, Sarah Wiberley. Handblown from layers of colour, the precise patterns shown are created by masking and sandbla...

1912 Victorian Royal Worcester Peacock Pedestal Vase and Cover Hand Painted By Walter Sedgley 248 H115.74 Condition: Beautiful as pictured. No chips cracks or any restoration. This...

Description: This 20th-century Anatolian terracotta vase embodies the artistry of traditional Turkish pottery. Handcrafted with precision, its twin-handled design and textured finish...

A pair of large ormolu mounted Sèvres style porcelain vases. French, late 19th century. Measures: height 130cm, width 45cm, dept...

This is a very large pair of antique decorative vases. An Oriental, ceramic baluster urn or stick stand, dating to the late Victorian period, c...

An impressive pair Dresden, Meissen style German porcelain lidded vases. Each with Cherubs frolicking around, depicting classical hand pai...

This is a tall vintage art vase. An Italian, glass stem or posy sleeve, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1970. Period decor accentuates this slender, fascinating vase Display...

Pair of floral opaline glass vases by Baccarat French, 19th Century Height 55.5cm, diameter 20cm Wonderfully crafted by Baccarat, the renowned French firm of glass manufacturers, th...

These beautiful Japanese vases were crafted during the Meiji period of the late 19th Century, which was referred to as the Golden Age of cloisonne enameling. The vases are of elo...

This vintage Sommerso Mandruzzato Murano glass vase adds an elegant decorative element to any space. Known for its exceptional craftsmans...

A fine pair of unusual ormolu mounted Chinese porcelain vases, each painted in famille rose enamels and gilt, of baluster form with a pleated neck and fo-dog handles, applied with gi...

Slashed Crumpled Form No 60 is a unique ceramic sculptural vessel by the British artist Nicholas Arroyave-Portela, made from white St.Thomas ...

A very fine a superb scale Japanese Cloisonné vase, the light blue ground with flowers and floral details. In perfect condition.

A magnificent early 20th Century Art Nouveau cameo glass vase etched and enamelled with flowering Datura in a vibrant landscape. The design heightened with gilded design on the surfa...

‘Tangerine Arrows' is a unique glass sculptural vessel by the British artist, Sarah Wiberley. Handblown from layers of colour, the precise patterns shown are created by masking and s...

Monumental Sèvres style ormolu mounted porcelain vase of the Four Seasons French, c.1895 Height 152cm, diameter 45cm Set on a polychrome ground, dominated by a rare and fitting beige ground, which is accentuated and banded with strips in green, this beautiful and monumental porcelain vase...

This is a vintage ornamental baluster urn. An English, golden pearl marble decorative vase, dating to the late 20th century. Classical appeal with golden hues Displays a desirable aged patina Shapely baluster urn with marble...

Pair of Minton Majolica vases which feature a hen and rooster stood next to a wooden slated trough. Signed, 'J Henk' to the base. Colouration: brown, green, gre...

Art nouveau in design and era, a fabulously glazed ceramic vase by Horsens Danico Denmark A super little vase to collect Circa 1920's Signed Danico, 221 Denmark Height 4.25 inch, Dia...

‘Tall Jade Green Crumpled Form No 89’ is a unique sculptural vessel by the British artist, Nicholas Arroyave-Portela. Nicholas Arroyave-Portela’s professional ceramic practice began...

Studio glass vase C. 1960. In very good vintage condition.

A rare and stunning Doulton Lambeth copper clad art pottery vase decorated with fish swimming amidst weed by renowned artist Francis C Pope and dating from the early 20th century. Th...

This is a spectacular garniture of three vases made by an English factory between 1810 and 1815. The vases are made in the French Empire style with heavily gilded Egyptian caryatid s...