Gilt Vases and Vessels

A Monumental 19th Century Moser Gilt and Enameled Yellow Crystal Parrot-Relief Vase. Of bottle vase form, in translucent amber/yellow crystal, decorated with trailing oak-boughs and ...

A Pair of Edwardian Regency Style Ebonized Mahogany and Gilt Decorated Cutlery Covered Urns, Circa 1910s. Measure 11"W x 11"D x 24.5"H

A rare Lyngby Porcelain vase with fluted body and gold detailing. From the early production 1936-1940. The tallest size. 1st. assortment. Excellent condition, with only some slight...

A very fine French 19th-20th century Louis XV style ormolu-mounted Fleur de Pêcher marble vase or urn with a gadrooned cover surmounted by a pomegranate finial, above a tapering ovoi...

Pair of Chinese red cloisonné zodiac vases, with stands, each one with gilt brass phoenix bird ring handles, with 'cracked ice' and floating animal medalli...

Cantagalli Lusture Majolica centerpiece, Of tripartite form with center pierced urn, with mask medallions, raised on a confirming ovoid base. Decorated in all over foliate and scroll...

Exquisite contemporary Japanese gilded porcelain vase, intricately hand painted in shades of blue and pink on a beautifully shaped body, a striking signed work by highly acclaimed master artist from Arita-Imari region of Japan. In 2016, the British Museum added a work by this award-winning artist to its collection of contemporary Japanese porcelain in the Imari-Arita polychrome enamel tradition. Yu-riko or underglaze-red that is used in creating this piece is a technique that uses a copper-based colorant for underglaze painting that develops a red color under a transparent glaze. This technique is traced back to 14th century China...

A superb late 19th century Minton twin-handled garniture vase and cover, exquisitely hand-painted by the celebrated artist Antonin Boullemier (signed A. Boullemier). The ovoid porcel...

PAIR of French Art Nouveau gilt vases with female handle and cupids in water relief (signed CH. PERRON) (PRICED AS PAIR)

PAIR of English Victorian cobalt blue porcelain and gilt trim floral design vases with asymmetrical handles (Royal Crown Derby) (PRICED AS PAIR)

PAIR of French Empire Revival (mid-19th Century) urns / candleholders with rouge and black marble bodies, gilt bronze ornamentation and a removable top piece that flips to reveal a c...

A sophisticated perfume bottle crafted from cut crystal and encased in a lace-gilded bronze frame featuring delicate decorative reliefs. The lid showcases a prominent design of a she...

A fine old or antique Sevres type porcelain vase. With rich gilding and handpainted flower baskets & ribbons throughout. Marked to the based with a blue Sevres type interlaced...

Petite pair of Renaissance style gilded and enameled glass vases - hand painted with scrolling acanthus leaves and flowers with banded borders to the top edges (resembling stained gl...

A spectacular, highly adorned, Sèvres style urn, skillfully hand painted with garden scenes of maidens and putti on either side amidst brightly colored flowers, foliage, scroll forms...

Large antique glass centerpiece vase with distressed gold leaf decoration measuring 15 1/2 inches tall and 12 inches across. Apparently uns...

A fine pair of French 19th century Napoleon III Empire style patinated-bronze and gilt-bronze mounted allegorical covered urn vases lamps in the manner of Pierre-Philippe Thomire (Fr...

Finely cast French patinated and gilt jardiniere or centerpiece bowl in the Louis XVI style after the original model by Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912), depicting Cupid with his bow and ...

A magnificent pair of gilt bronze-mounted English Samson porcelain decorative urns, showcasing exceptional craftsmanship and timeless elegance. Each urn features a flattened baluster...

A striking pair of English Mason’s Ironstone lidded vases dating to circa 1840, richly decorated in cobalt blue and gilt. Exemplifying the bold neoclassical revival style of early Vi...

Gilt bronze mounted porcelain vase in the manner of Sèvres, French, late 19th Century Measures: Height 123cm, width 53cm, depth 42cm This large porcelain vase demonstrates the b...

This elegant pair of mid-20th-century decorative garniture vases by renowned maker Jacob Petit showcases the timeless beauty of French porcelain. Each vase is crafted in a unique cor...

Decorate a mantel or a console with this colorful pair of antique cassolettes. Crafted in France circa 1870, each urn is built of porcelain stands on a square bronze base with cut co...

Extraordinary large Japanese contemporary decorative porcelain vase/centerpiece, extremely intricately hand painted on a tall stunning cylinder shape porcelain body in red, pink, blu...

Model #3771 Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel (RSt&K), consistently marked pieces with the tradename “Amphora” by the late 1890s and became known by that name. The Amphora pottery fa...

A decorative pair of Chinese porcelain ginger jars dating to the mid-20th century, finely executed in the Famille Noire palette—an enamel technique revived in homage to Qing Dynasty ...

A beautiful antique Moser round crystal vase with ornate floral gilding and flared square mouth. In excellent condition for it’s age and a perfect size.

Italian handmade Murano glass vase from circa 1980s. The glass is in black color with air bubbles inside. The sides are decorated with inlaid gold dust glass details. Signed on the b...

A fine antique French bronze mounted porcelain vase. The body in a deep pink with gilding to the rim and foot rim, a Rococo gilt patterns framing the central cartouche, and a centra...

A Beautiful Pair of Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze and Champlevé Enamel Mounted White Sèvres Style Vases Gilt bronze tops above a long neck with raised gold designs. The painted fron...

Our important parcel-gilt and patinated silver and glass-mounted vase and matching oil lamp were designed by Paul Legrand (1840-1910) and crafted by the silversmith, Charles Glachant, for Boucheron of Paris, circa 1878-1880. 21 in tall and 16.5 in wide (53.4 by 41.9 cm). 28.56 lbs, 457 oz, 14,210 g. Provenance: presented to or purchased by Jean-Baptiste Pezon (1827-1897); acquired by a European private collector, perhaps on the death of Jean-Baptiste Pezon in 1897, by descent; acquired by YM Antiques, 2017. This double walled vase has an amphora form, with body and foot with silver, gilt and patinated and stylized flowers, anthemions and sprays of cherries against an etched and matted ground pierced to reveal a gilt inner wall. The upper body is detachable via a slip-lock, and mounted on both sides with arched panels formed of hexagonal beveled glass tiles. One glass panel applied with bacchic infants taunting a rearing goat and the other side with infants feeding grapes to a lioness under a looming bust of a satyr. The patinated and gilt upswung loop bifurcated handles are mounted with fully modeled figures of Pan bearing a syrinx and thyrsus and a draped maenad playing two flutes, both above roaring lion heads, the rim inset with a slip-lock detachable gilt bowl etched with masks of various representations of Bacchus spaced by ribbons and trophies and with scrolling fruiting vines. The base of interior with detachable base metal drip pan to accommodate the removable oil lamp designed to illuminate the glass tiles from within. The lamp is raised on four hoof feet, the upturned ends cast underneath with masks and with detachable cover mounted with two infant satyrs and flanked by gilt loop handles. The bacchic themed design featuring cartouches depicting infants taunting a goat and lion, plus prominent lion masks at the handles, certainly appealed to Boucheron's customer, Jean-Baptiste Pezon (1827-1897), who is believed to have commissioned the piece. Pezon was the celebrated lion tamer and headliner of the Grande Menagerie whose profession brought him great fame and fortune in Paris. Born a shepherd boy in Lozere, he is said to have left his home at the age of seventeen in the company of a wolf he had captured and trained years earlier. He headed to Paris and by the age of twenty-one purchased his first lion who he named Brutus. The animal is said to have inspired the Lion of Belfort, the monumental red standstone sculpture by Frederic Bartholdi erected in Belfort in 1880. Toulouse-Lautrec was among his admirers and friends, visiting Pezon's Great Lozerian Menagerie to sketch animals. A large bronze sculpture of Pezon atop a female lion adorns the Pezon family tomb in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, as seen in our image here. The vase and detachable bowl are marked on the underside with the silversmith's mark of Charles Glachant. The underside and upper rim of the lower body is engraved "Fic Boucheron Paris". The lamp is marked on underside and flange of cover for Glachant. Boucheron archives indicate the vase was inspired by the amphora vases created by the Greek potter, Nikosthenes, 550-510 BC. The Nikosthenic amphora vases are a form of Attic vase recognized for their angular amphora form with broad flat handles. Potted of bright orange-red clay, they were decorated with plant and animal motifs within distinct friezes, with the most significant defining feature being the black figure painting, often highlighted with white accents. In this vase Legrand re-imagines the striking contrast of the black figures against a warm ground through the use of patina and gilding. His inventive use of piercing and double-wall construction create additional levels of texture and depth throughout the body. The same combination of ornamentation was employed in a ewer designed by Legrand in 1880 in the Islamic taste. (See lot 77 of Christie's sale in New York on October 22, 2009.) Edmé Bouchardon (1698-1762), royal sculptor to Louis XV, may have provided Legrand with inspiration for the vase's iconography. The panel featuring bacchic infants taunting a rearing goat is very similar to a bas relief representation of Winter designed by Bouchardon for the Fontaine des Quarte-Saisons on rue de Grenelle, Paris. Bouchardon debuted his plaster model for the bas relief in 1741, and the fountain was completed in 1745. The Boucheron firm, founded by the celebrated jeweler, Frédéric Boucheron...

Vintage Matson1960s Ormolu Gold Tone Metal Filigree Bud Glass Vase Holder. Beautiful gold tone filigree metal ormolu vase holder. This beautiful vintage Ormolu...

Figural Art Nouveau Muse Perfume Bottle, Pat. July 1900, Attributed to Schafer & Vater, Germany A rare and ethereal figural Art Nouveau perfume bottle, attributed to Schafer & Vater...

French (19th/20th Cent) opaline and gilt trimmed tall glass vase (chips to top rim)

Chinese (20th Century) small blue cubical shaped porcelain urn with a lid and gilt rope detail having iconography imprinted with a floral design

A massive pair of fine antique French ormolu-mounted Sèvres style porcelain covered vases. Each of baluster form, the cover with foliate finial and laurel band, the body finely paint...

A Stunning monumental pair of Cobalt blue ground painted Sèvres porcelain vase and cover signed ‘H. Deprez.’ The paintings on the bodies of the vases are i...

This pair of antique Bohemian glass covered urns or vases were handcrafted in circa 1880 in the period Victorian style. The urns are done in a deep green with intricate gilt decorati...

Rich in opulence and storytelling, this vintage pair of lidded urns from China presents a vivid tableau of equestrian elegance. Against a lustrous ivory ground, each rounded vessel i...

A monumental and quite important pair of antique French Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted Chinese export porcelain vases. This exceptional pair of Louis XVI style porcelain vases are be...

A wonderful French Empire doré bronze and cut crystal figural neoclassical centrepiece Measures: 7.5" W x 8" H.

Large, heavy Empire style gilt and patinated bronze Amphora table lamp decorated with fine ornaments and garlands on a square base supported by four feet covered with leaves. Five-li...

Exquisite gilded and intricately hand-painted Japanese contemporary porcelain vase in an elegant shape, extremely intricately hand-painted in various hues of purple and blue, a signe...

A Pair of 19th C. Paris Porcelain Gilt and Portrait Painted Vases. Each vase features a neoclassical amphora form, richly decorated with gilt accents and hand-painted portrait panel...

Model #2047 Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel (RSt&K), consistently marked pieces with the tradename “Amphora” by the late 1890s and became known by that name. The Amphora pottery fa...

Hand painted with scenes of a chateau landscape and courtly couples in a garden, signed 'E. Collot', on a gilt and cobalt ground, gilt-bronze acanthus swag handles, base and foliate ...

A pair of Empire style gilt bronze Brule-Parfums in manner of Pierre-Philippe Thomire, 19th century each openwork cover with an acorn finial above the body having a rim cast to show...

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Cube shaped blue opaline glass planter jardiniere with gilt brass hardware. The gilt brass is presented in its authentic patina but can be polished upon buyers request. All 4 corners...

A beautiful, relatively large, Italian white porcelain urn or jardinière with gold Neoclassical design, circa early to mid-20th century, Italy. Bea...

A charming example of refined French decorative art, this petite cut crystal vase with gilt bronze mounts beautifully captures the elegance of 19th-century craftsmanship. The vase fe...

A beautiful Italian porcelain footed bowl urn by Mottahedeh, in the Neoclassical style, circa early-20th century, Italy. Beautiful as a s...

Fitted traveling case with original hand blown gilt decorated bottles with the original crimson brocade cover, late 18th century. The case retains the original working lock and key o...

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Pair of late 19th century Bohemian/Art Nouveau opaline glass and gold enamel flower-shaped perfume decanters/scent bottles with stoppers, France By: unknown Material: opaline glass,...

Royal Vienna style porcelain vase with with extensive gilt decorations over a burgundy red glazed ground, featuring a painted scene of a mother and children gathering flowers, wheat ...

A fine opaline crystal vase by French crystal maker St Louis. Our vase is hand-painted and enhanced with fine gold peonies decoration. Beautiful Napoleon III style production, late 1...

Mid-Century Modern vase was designed by Aldo Londi and produced by Bitossi for Rosenthal Netter. It is decorated with a band of gold flowers on Rimini blue, outlined with sgraffito ...

Discover the timeless elegance of this antique gilt bronze-mounted urn by renowned French maker Jacob Petit, dating back to the mid-19th century. A masterpiece of craftsmanship and d...

A fantastic quality 19th century Russian Empire period Dore bronze mounted amethyst crystal scalloped rim tazza/cache-pot. The crystal is of a beautiful rich amethyst purple color. The crystal is beautifully hand-cut and shaped with a scalloped rim. The crystal is mounted on an incredible dore bronze base with the finest quality. The base is all hand-burnished and matted with an acanthus leaf design and is resting on a square plinth with an acanthus leaf border. The Crystal is easily attributable to the Imperial Russian Glass...