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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Antique Japanese black glaze gourd-shaped vase / Edo period / Sake bottle
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
Known as the birthplace of Seto ware, Seto City in Aichi Prefecture is one of Japan's Six Ancient Kilns and boasts a long history dating back to the late Heian period. During the Edo...
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Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Pottery

18th Century Dutch Delft Lidded Vase with Figural Finial
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Blue and white Delft earthenware lidded vase, 18th century, decorated with pastoral landscape scenes framed in cartouches. The lid features a figural finial in the form of a seated a...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Delft

Attic Black-Figured Neck Amphora
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This small but superbly painted Neck Amphora is attributed to the Light-Make Class. It's central scene is decorated with an armored hoplite wearing greaves and a Corinthian helmet. H...
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Greek Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Terracotta

Large Antique Blue and White Dutch Delft Vase Hand Painted 18th Century Ca. 1770
Located in Katonah, NY
This hand-painted Dutch Delft vase, made circa 1770, is a beautiful example of 18th-century tin-glazed earthenware in blue and white. Rising to more than eighteen inches, the vase ha...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Delft

Corinthian Black-Figured Alabastron
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This exceptional and elegantly composed tear shaped Corinthian Alabastron is a standout for the type. The complex decorative scheme is centered around a standing figure of the winge...
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Greek Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Terracotta

Japanese Antique Wabi-Sabi Edo Pottery Vase 18th Century / Tsubo
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a very old ceramic vase made in Japan. It was made in the Edo period (1860s-1860s). It is called Shigaraki ware in Japan. This large vase was used to hold and carry tea leav...
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Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Pottery

Pair Antique Blue and White Delft Vases 18th Century with Dutch Marks 1705-1716
By Delft, De Drie Astonne
Located in Katonah, NY
This elegant marked pair of Dutch Delft vases dates from the early 18th century. It was hand-painted between 1705 and 1716 at De Drie Posteleyne Astonne workshop. A similar pair can...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Delft

Japanese antique Bizen ware vase / 15th-16th century / Wabi-sabi vase/Tsubo
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This Bizen ware jar was fired in the Bizen region of Okayama Prefecture. Bizen ware is one of Japan's Six Ancient Kilns and is known as one of the oldest pottery styles in Japan. Its...
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Japanese Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Pottery

Japanese antique pottery with very beautiful colors/ [shigaraki] Jar/1500-1600
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
It is "Shigaraki ware". Shigaraki is a historical kiln located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. (Shigaraki Kiln is marked with a red circle on the map.) It is said to have originated in t...
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Japanese Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Pottery

Japanese Antique Shigaraki Ware 17th Century / Pottery Vase Vessel Wabi Sabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is a ceramic jar made in Japan. It was made in the 17th Century and is a valuable piece that conveys the lifestyle and aesthetic sense of the time. Shigaraki ware is one of the...
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Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Pottery

Attic Black-Figured Hydria
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An imposing vessel, this hydria is designed around a central panel depicting the wedding procession of Peleus and Thetis. The couple stands together in a quadriga, the groom controll...
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Greek Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Terracotta

Late 17th century, Dutch Delft, Transitional Style Bottle Vase With Playing Boys
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
An early Dutch Delftware bottle vase in Transitional style. Origin: Delft, The Netherlands Date: Late 17th century Workshop: Unknown. A genuine blue and white bottle vase made as a...
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Dutch Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Ceramic, Delft, Faience

Ancient Greek Attic Black-Figured Neck Amphora
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Attributed to the Manner of The Antimenes Painter. Side A features bearded Dionysos at the centre, with his head turned back, clad in a himation with a patterned border over an ankl...
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Greek Greco Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Terracotta

Ancient Daunian Pottery Strainer Askos
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A beautifully preserved example, this askos features a globular body defined by two vertical spouts and a conjoined ribbed handle in between. The whole of the body is decroated with ...
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Italian Greco Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Terracotta

Korean antique pottery vase/rare design pottery/Joseon Dynasty/15th century
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
I would like to introduce Korean antique pottery with a very rare design. This is a vase-shaped container made in the early Joseon Dynasty of Ko...
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South Korean Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Pottery

Korean antique black glaze pottery/Joseon period/15th-16th century/small vase
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a small black-glazed jar made in Korea between the 15th and 16th centuries. White porcelain is famous in Korea, but this was a type of porcelain that was only allowed to be u...
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South Korean Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Pottery

Ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom Alabaster Jar
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Of beautiful rich, translucent alabaster, banded with creamy hightlights, this sizeable vessel is of exceptional quality. The cylindrical squat piriform body tapers to a flat base, ...
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Egyptian Egyptian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Alabaster

Antique Wabi Sabi Style Vase in Pewter 18th Century
Located in Meer, VAN
Antique Vase in Pewter 18th Century Beautiful antique vase in pewter, Dutch, 18th century. We’re not sure if this has always been a vase - could also have been more of a cup. Neve...
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European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Pewter

Japanese Antique Shigaraki ware 17th Century / Pottery Vase Wabisabi
Located in Chōsei District Nagara, JP
This is an old pottery pot made in Japan. It is a very old pot believed to have been made in the 17th century, early Edo period, and is called Koshigaraki in Japan. Koshigaraki refe...
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Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Pottery

Etruscan "Bucchero" Black Ware Two Handle Vase
Located in CA, CA
An Etruscan "bucchero" black ware two handle vase dating from the 6th century BC. Adorned with boar designs in relief around the body of vessel and a single standing human figure in...
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Italian Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Pottery

Blue and White Albarello Vase
Located in New York, NY
Blue and white Albarello vase. Fine smaller early Italian pottery pharmacy jar in rich blue and off-white scrolling patterned floral and inscription; design based on Persian original...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Pottery

Pair of Roman Terracotta Amphorae, 3rd–1st Century BC
Located in Madrid, ES
Impressive pair of Roman terracotta amphorae dating from the 3rd to 1st century BC, mounted on custom iron bases. These amphorae were traditionally used to store salted fish and othe...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Terracotta

Pair of Chinese glazed 17th-century ceramic rice wine storage pots
Located in Palermo, PA
Pair of charming glazed 17th-century ceramic rice wine storage pots originating from China. Featuring an unusual brown glaze and a striated collar, these pots serve as a captivating ...
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Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Ceramic

Early Wedgwood Dipped Pearlware Bough Pot
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A dark brown-glazed pearlware bough pot with pierced cover and applied decoration, made by Wedgwood circa 1785. The development of a whiteware body had been a goal of ceramicists ac...
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British Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Ceramic, Earthenware, Pearlware

Chinese Ming Cobalt Brushed Wine Vessel, c. 1550
Located in Chicago, IL
This delicate ceramic bottle is a Ming-dynasty (1368-1644) vessel originally used for serving rice wine or spirits. The gracefully curved form is known as a yuhuchunping, or pear-sha...
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Chinese Ming Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Earthenware

Japanese Antique Pottery Jar 16th-17th Century/ Wabi-Sabi Vase/Tokoname
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
Tokoname is a region located in Aichi Prefecture. It is a pottery production center with a very old history in Japan (around the 12th century). These jars were probably fired during...
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Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Pottery

Genuine Faience Vase Green Red and Yellow Color Lille 1757 Decor signed Tesniers
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Vase in Faience, in a Green red and yellow color. With a beautiful Glaze. It has been made in France in 1757 in Lille. It is signed Lille 1757. The decor is painted in the style of T...
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French French Provincial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Sandstone

Pair of Dutch Delft Blue and White Vases with Windmill Scenes
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Pair of Delft vases decorated in blue and white with painted windmills, ships, and landscape scenes within shaped cartouches. The flared rims and scrolled borders add to their decora...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Delft

Early 18th Century Coconut and Silver Cup
Located in Brescia, IT
Cups in coconut such as this are especially uncommon and rarely appear on the world's art market. This is a very interesting piece for its fine and rich craftmenships metal silver de...
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Dutch Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Silver

Blue and White Delft Handled Chinoiserie Vase
Located in New York, NY
Blue and white Delft handled chinoiserie vase. Antique Dutch porcelain vase with rich blue flowers and chinoiserie fencing in a lustrous glaze; with scro...
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Dutch Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Ceramic

Pair of Diminutive Delft Vases
Located in Greenwich, CT
A pair of diminutive delft vases with hand-painted blue floral and foliate decoration in a white ground on shaped bodies having hexagonal top collars above larger shoulders tapering ...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Porcelain

Pair Antique Very Large Chinese Porcelain Vases French Gold Ormolu Stands
Located in London, GB
Pair Antique Very Large Chinese Porcelain Vases French Gold Ormolu Stands Porcelain: Chinese, 18th Century Ormolu: French, Late 19th Century Vases...
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Chinese Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Ormolu

Canopus Jar "Asmet", 1069 - 664 B.C, Egypt
Located in Girona, Spain
Canopus Jar "Asmet", With certificate of authenticity. 1069 - 664 B.C, Egypt. Good condition. Egyptian culture are "Canopus jars". These were vessels ...
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Egyptian Egyptian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Alabaster

Japanese Antique Pottery Jar 15th-16th Century/ Wabi-Sabi Jar/Tokoname Vase
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
It is a very old jar in Japan. This is a pottery called Tokoname ware. Tokoname is a kiln located in Aichi prefecture, Japan. It is said to have originated around the 12th century. A...
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Japanese Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Pottery

Japanese Antique Pottery Jar/1500s/"Shigaraki Ware"/Wabisabi Vase
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a Japanese pottery called "Shigaraki ware". Shigaraki is a historical kiln located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. (Shigaraki Kiln is marked with a ...
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Japanese Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Pottery

Antique Japanese Porcelain Garniture Vases Blue White Gold Edo Period, 17th C
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Amazing set for decorating your home. Interesting and beautifully made Birds of Prey on a rock as handles on the lids. The two porcelain Arita baluster vases with covers. All decora...
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Japanese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Porcelain

16th Century Fossil Embedded Shipwreck Vase, Sawankhalok, Thailand
Located in New York, NY
16th century Thailand Sawankhalok ceramic vase from the old city of Sawankhalok known for its pottery. Beautiful and abundant fossil growth from being submerged under water. Natural ...
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Thai Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Ceramic

13th Century Chinese Song Dynasty Shipwreck Vessel, China
Located in New York, NY
13th century China Song Dynasty small four handled shipwreck vessel. Beautiful and natural patina from being submerged under water. Part of a very large collection of shipwrecked pot...
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Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Ceramic

Large Rare Blue and White Baluster Vase, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi, Circa 1690
Located in seoul, KR
Large rare vase painted with petal-shaped panels of 'Landscapes and Flowers' pattern. Period : Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period Production Date : 1690-1699 Made in : Jingdezhen Destination : Netherland Found/Acquired : Southeast Asia , South China Sea, Vung Tau ship Size : 51cm (Height), 20cm(Diameter), 12cm(Mouth Diameter) Condition : Excellent Reference : Double checked with reference to the original catalogues 1) Christies Paris 30 NOV – 14 DEC 2023 - Art of Asia - Lot 618 2) Christies Amsterdam 1992 - Vung Tau Cargo / Christies 3) Qing Dynasty Export Blue and White(淸代外销靑花瓷) - Vung Tau Cargo Catalogue / Guangxi Fine Art Publishing House 4) Asian Ceramic Found along Maritime Silk Route / National Maritime Museum of Korea * Vung Tau Cargo Porcelain...
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Vietnamese Qing Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Ceramic, Porcelain

Antique 18th Century Blue White Dutch Delft Chinoserie Jar or Vase
By Delft, De Drie Astonne
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Dutch Delft vase or jar. The body decorated with cartouches of stylized peony bouquets on a latticework ground. The shoulder decorated with alternating cartouches of ...
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Dutch Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Delft

17th Century Sawankhalok ceramic Shipwreck Jar, Thailand
By Asian Modern
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
A wonderful example of a Sawankhalok ceramic jar, sourced from a Shipwreck off the Coast of the Indonesian Island of Batam. Batam was one of the most substantial and influential port...
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Thai Rustic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Ceramic

16th Century Animist Shipwreck Ceramic Vase, Vietnam
Located in New York, NY
16th century Vietnamese Animist ceramic vase. Beautiful and abundant fossil growth from being submerged under water. Natural original patina. Part of a very large collection of shipw...
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Vietnamese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Ceramic

A Large and Rare 17th Century Lignum Vitae Wassail Bowl
Located in Harrodsburg, KY
An exceptionally large example of a traditional wassail vessel turned out of lignum vitae. Due to the immense size, it has been turned in three parts. The bowl, stem, and plinth are ...
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English Jacobean Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Brass

Japanese Antique Pottery Jar 17th-18th Century/ Wabi-Sabi /Tokoname
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
Tokoname is a region in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, renowned as one of the country's oldest pottery centers, with a history dating back to the 12th century. This jar, despite cracking ...
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Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Pottery

Ancient Apulian Red-Figured Askos
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This beautifully proportioned South Italian ceramic production is an askos, or pouring vessel.  It prominently features a seated naked winged Eros wearing anklets, bracelets, a body ...
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Italian Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Terracotta

Large Chinese Archaistic Black Patina Bronze Altar Vase
Located in Mt Kisco, NY
Chinese bronze vase with decoration in the Archaistic style and dragon mythical beast loop handles.
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Chinese Archaistic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Bronze

Chinese antique pottery wabi-sabi vase/12th-14th century/Cizhou kiln
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a vase believed to have been fired at the Cizhou kilns in northern China. Known for their distinctive white-slip base and bold black glaze decoration, the Cizhou kilns flouri...
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Chinese Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Pottery

Korean Glazed Ceramic Vase Buncheong Ware Early Joseon Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique Korean Buncheong stoneware vase from early Joseon Dynasty circa late 15th to early 16th century. The vase is of a classic pear form with a ...
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Korean Archaistic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Ceramic

Delft Blue and White Vase Hand Painted 18th Century circa 1780 Netherlands
Located in Katonah, NY
Made circa 1780, this 18th century Dutch Delft vase was hand painted with floral decoration of flowers and scrolling vines. A beautiful deep cobalt blue covers most of the surface....
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Dutch Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Delft

Rare Rustic wabi sabi style vase in solid wood, France 1800s
Located in Meulebeke, BE
France / 1800 / vase / wood / Rustic / Antique Handmade French solid wooden vase from the late 18th or early 19th century. This decorative antique piece was crafted from warm dark b...
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French Rustic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Wood

Korean antique pottery vase / Goryeo dynasty / 13th to 14th century
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
There is a long crack that has been repaired. Detailed images 14th and 15th. There is no water leakage, but please refrain from leaving water in it for more than two days. Also, be s...
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South Korean Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Pottery

Ancient Egyptian Alabaster Storage Jar
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A large, and very fine barrel-shaped jar of alabster with well defined bands of creme and caramel highlights. Twin vestigial lug handles are located on each side below a wide disc ri...
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Egyptian Egyptian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Alabaster

A very old small pottery jar from China / 13th to 17th century / Excavated vase
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a fired jar made in southern China or northern Laos or the surrounding area in the 15th to 17th century. Its unique shape has long been loved in Japan as a wabi-sabi flower v...
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Southeast Asian Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Pottery

An 18th Century Grey Celadon Craquelure Glaze Vase with Rococo Mounts
Located in London, GB
France, circa 1780 A late eighteenth century bottle vase with grey celadon craquelure glaze and expansive rococo brass mounts. Height 40.00cm Width 29.00cm Depth 19.00cm
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Brass

Antique Chinese pottery green-glazed vase/[Liao Dynasty]/10th century
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
We are pleased to introduce a glazed ceramic vase from the Liao dynasty of China, dating from the 10th century, about 1,000 years ago. The Liao dynasty was established by the Qidan ...
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Chinese Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Pottery

Alzata in Maiolica Italiana dipinta con Madonna con Bambino Ocra e Celeste 1700
Located in Milano, MI
Alzata in Maiolica italiana dipinta in policromia agli inizi 1700 con piano perfettamente piatto con bordo rialzato decorato con l’assunzione della Madonna Incoronata raffigurata co...
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Italian Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

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Majolica

Ming Dynasty Vase with Vibrant Turquoise Glaze
Located in Atlanta, GA
Ming Dynasty (16th century) pottery vase with vivid turquoise glaze, decorated with dragons. The vase is partially moulded, with circular bosses around the mouth rim and a hexagonal ...
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Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Pottery

Pair of 18th Century Italian Silver Neoclassical Vases, In the Louis XVI Style
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of 18th Century Italian Silver Neoclassical Vases, In the Louis XVI Style Each vase Hallmarked A rare and exquisite pair of 18th-century Italian Silver Neoclassical Vases, mad...
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Italian Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Sterling Silver

Early 18th Century Blue and White Dutch Delft Clobbered Vase
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A blue and white Dutch delft vase made circa 1700, with clobbered-style polychrome enamels added in the mid-18th century. This brightly colored blue and white Dutch delft vase is a ...
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Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Delft, Pottery

Blue and White Delft Vase Hand Painted 18th Century Netherlands, circa 1760
Located in Katonah, NY
This blue and white Delft jar was made in the Netherlands in the early 18th century, circa 1730. The jar is covered in a gorgeous light blue glaze traditional to much early 18th ce...
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Dutch Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Vases

Materials

Delft

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