Blue Marbleized Empire Wastebasket

Italian marble top nightstand side table. Provincial polished cherry wood bedside table with original thick polished marble slab and single keyed working lock drawer, above two-door...

Vintage blue and white Italian cachepot, of ovoid form with lion mask ring handles and hand-painted flowers and lemons on a blue field with a central sh...

From Sèvres, France, this lovely porcelain vase has been hand painted in a faux blue marble with black and white veining. The vase was produced in the style of a Greek stamnos, which was a vase designed to store liquids. Stamnoi are typically more squatty versions of krater vases, with handles high on the sides. The bottom of the vase is stamped with a production mark reading “Sevres 1872”. Sevres is a commune southwest of Paris that is known for its porcelain production. Manufacture nationale de Sèvres is a premier European porcelain factory that has been in Sevres since 1756. From 1800-1847, Alexander Brongniart was the director of the factory. Trained as both an engineer and a scientist, Brongniart brought about many changes to the factory, such as improving the composition of hard-paste porcelain and developing enameled colors to simulate marble. Our marbled blue Sèvres porcelain vase...

Carved black marble vase wastebasket attributed to Sergio Asti for Up & Up. Remnants of a label on the bottom. Italy, 1970s.