United Kingdom - Vases and Vessels

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...

Exceptional vintage Japanese silver mounted cloisonne vase decorated with veiltail gold-fish and carp swimming amidst pond weed and dating arou...

This is a vintage frosted display vase. An Italian, glass ornamental flower pot, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1970. Unusual and distinctive vase with appealing finish Disp...

Pair of English Bristol blue chemist bottles / jars. Very good condition, no chips or cracks. Circa 1920s.

Mid-Century Modern Concrete Planter – 1960s English Design Discover this exquisite Mid-Century Modern concrete planter from England, dating ba...

A black 18th C. terracotta vessel from northern Portugal. Originally used for the storage of oil/wine. Heavily patinated with ripply texture. Historic damage/chipping to the rim.

Such a rare find are these matching pair of beautifully shaped Art Deco perfume bottles by Karl Palda. They are absolutely exquisite, every angle and side has a different design. I r...

A very stylish and beautifully hand-made Venetian Murano art glass vase in green and white glass cased in a mirror black glass finish p...

This is a vintage decorative vase. An English, platinum striata marble baluster urn, dating to the late 20th century. Stunning marble vase, to enha...

A black terracotta vessel from northern Portugal. Originally used for the storage of oil/wine. Heavily patinated & heavily textured. Historic chipping to the rim.

The pieces follow the Narcissus Vases in Rosa Perlino and Rosso Levanto shown at David Gill Gallery in November 2017 and are made from these two traditional...

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...

This is a vintage flower vase. A German, ceramic lava slip or decorative hall stick stand, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1970. Striking ...

A very fine and stylish antique oriental, Chinese attributed, cloisonne double gourd vase dating from the latter 19th century. The vase stands on a flat brass base with a wide round base, pinched waist and narrow round upper section with a funnel style top with a flat metal rim. The body of the vase is decorated with a mixture of flowering shrubs dominated with flowering hawthorn incorporating a butterfly to one side. The continuous scenes are decorated in colored enamels against a bright turquoise ground and set between formal borders around the foot, the pinched centre and top of the vase. The vase is typically not marked but is a striking and very stylish example. Provenance: Acquired from the UK art...

Pair Antique French Opaline Painted Glass Vases Flowers Birds Baccarat French, Mid-19th Century Height 39.5cm, diameter 15cm A striking example of 19th-century French artistry, th...

Super decorative glazed vase, intricate monochromatic surface pattern. Italy 1950s H 30cm x D 20cm

This is a vintage art vase. A Swedish, glass stem sleeve, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1960. Exceptional colour to this delightful Swedish art vase...

A very stylish Italian art glass vase of tall oval cylindrical shape made by Salviati on the Island of Murano and dated 1997. Started in 1859 by Antonio Salviati the company is renow...

This is a small antique baluster urn. An English, ceramic decorative posy vase by Royal Crown Derby, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. ...

Late 19th Century Neoclassical Vase. Decorated with egg and dart and palmettes. Excellent Condition. Italy, Circa 1890

First time we've had one of these so quite a rare find and in superb condition is this wonderful 1930's Art Deco German half doll related ladies perfu...

A very unusual and Murano blue and turquoise glass vase. The original round foil sticker is visible on one side marked: Murano Made In Italy. A beautiful decorative piece perfect for a glass display case or shelf where the light can shine through it to emphasise the beautiful and almost luminous two-tone coloured glass. The vase is made in the Sommerso (submerged) style with darker royal blue glass submerged inside lighter turquoise clear glass...

An antique Blue John Campana vase, dating to circa 1820. Made from striking Blue John, this handsome urn displays banded veining in a classic campana form. It features gadrooned deta...

A tall and striking studio pottery porcelain vase decorated in abstract colored glazes on a celadon ground attributed to Derek Clarkson and dating from ...

A stunning Arts & Crafts three handled hourglass shaped vase attributed to Linthorpe and in the manner of Christopher Dresser (British, 1834 – 1904) dating from around 1880. The vase...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this super rare Victorian graduated green to clear 1899 Antique cut glass Crystal Perfume bottle flask A ve...

Victorian Flow Blue and Gilded Ceramic Jug with Pewter Lid, England, circa 1850 A decorative mid-19th century English ceramic jug, finely decorated...

An impressive English aesthetic movement ceramic twin handled moon shaped vase decorated with classical figures dating from around 1880. The vase is finely made and stands on a wide ...

This is an extremely rare set of lidded sauce tureens made by Coalport in circa 1820. The tureens are decorated in the "Marquess of Anglesey" pattern. These sauce tureens would have formed part of a large dessert service. They were used for the sauce to be served on ice cream or a cooked sweet dish, and the lids have holes for the sauce ladles. Coalport was one of the leading potters in 19th and 20th century, coming out with many innovative designs. The pottery emerged around the year 1800 in Shropshire, right on the edge of Staffordshire and near other great makers such as Spode, Minton, Davenport and many others. They went on to become a major potter in the 19th century and brought out many iconic designs. The Welsh Nantgarw factory first created the heavily gilded service for the Marquess of Anglesey, with beautifully painted flowers. Later the Swansea factory made additions to or copies of this service, and circa 1820 Coalport...

An Exceptional Exhibition-Quality Bronze Coupe By Ferdinand Barbedienne The largest bronze coupe available from the famous foundry, this patinated and parcel gilt vessel was especia...

This is a pair of tall antique stem vases. An Austrian, ceramic flower sleeve, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850. Beautifully decorated vases, with superb colour and figural scenes Displaying a desirable aged patina and in good order Quality ceramic with a light cream ground and a fine, glazed appearance Rich colours accentuate the vase, the vibrant pink bands catching the eye Tall, slender handles decorated with gilt finish sit above the circular rim Further gilt touches with chased foliate patterns throughout Each vase presents a quality traditional scene with female figures and a jovial cherub Set amongst colourful flowers in a stately garden...

Finely made German Art Deco Myra Kristal miniature art glass vase by Karl Wiedmann for WMF (Würtemburgische Metallwaren Fabrik) and made between 1926 and 1936. This elegant amber gla...

A very rare and unusual antique miniature Rye pottery figure of a Sussex Pig decorated in mottled brown glazes with a removable head. The pig is in excepti...

This is an antique decorative jardiniere. A Chinese, ceramic planter, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Delightful decorative interest with rich colour and Oriental t...

Antique Very Large Pair of Japanese Bronze Vases - Exquisite Meiji Period Artist Pieces! These remarkable Japanese bronze vases, dating back to the 19th Century Meiji Period, exempl...

The pieces follow the Narcissus vases in Rosa Perlino and Rosso Levanto shown at David Gill Gallery in November 2017 and are made from these two traditional...

Pair Neoclassical Russian Ormolu Gilt Bronze Blue Glass Vases Russian, 20th Century Height 33cm, width 16cm, depth 12cm An impressive pair of Russian vases, fashioned from striking...

An unusual and large midcentury Swedish hand blown art glass vase designed by Wiktor Berndt for Flygsfors. The vase from the 'Tribal' range is blown in a yellow amber colored glass w...

A Fine Pair of Early 19th Century French Grand Tour Bronze and Siena Marble Tazzas of Interesting Design French Circa 1830 These beautiful tazzas stand on round bronze bases, cast...

Originating from Czech republic this Art Deco vase not only visually looks stunning with it's very distinctive green / yellow colouring with jet black enamel accents but is a great s...

Victorian Copper Planter Log Bucket of footed half bulbous form with embossed floral and leaf work shoulder panels with mask handles - 19"w x 16"d x 14"h

A large English, beautifully carved amphora shaped vase in alabaster.

Outstanding fantastic quality garniture of three antique Japanese imari vases, having a fantastic garniture of three large antique baluster Japanese imari vases and covers decorated ...

A very stylish mid-century studio pottery vase in the brutalist style decorated with yellow and green streaked glazes. The heavily made stoneware vase stands on a narrow flat round b...

This is a large antique decorative vase. A Japanese, bronze Meiji period urn, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Highly impressive antique vase with striking detail Displays a desirable aged patina by way of fine weathering Bronze shows a wonderful tonality with a light tarnish from decades of careful polish Decorated with key icons from the Meiji period of Japanese history (1868-1912) Broad, tapering rim with rolled lip, embellished by way of garland detail Panel scenes to both sides with three dimensional birds opposite crashing waves Depicting a Falcon or Hayabusa flying overhead, the wave scene redolent of Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa...

Margaret Gilmour, attributed. A Scottish School Arts and Crafts brass planter with flaring top and hand-formed detail depicting a Galleon stood on Gi...

An incredibly beautiful and rare Spode porcelain vase decorated with shells to the front and flowers to the reverse. The shape name is "New Shape Fish Handled Beaker" and it was d...

Fine quality pair of antique Japanese imari bottle shaped vases having a quality pair of antique Japanese imari bottle shaped vases, decorated with traditional scenes of figural and ...

A very good quality late 19th century French 'Sèvres' lidded vase. Having gilded ormolu-mounted to the cobalt blue background with scrolling gilded decoration. The painted panel to t...

Pair of Jerome Massier French Majolica figural vases which feature a pair of chickens - a cockerel and a hen, stood in front of wheatsheaf receptacles. Colouration: yellow, teal blue...

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...

This 20th-century Anatolian terracotta jar is a testament to traditional craftsmanship, featuring a hand-applied whitewashed finish that beautifully contrasts its warm terracotta bas...

A very stylish and unusual French mid-century organic sculptural lava glazed vase by renowned ceramicist Marius Bessone (French, 1929-2001). Based in Vallauris, an enclave of some ...

This fabulous Art Deco atomiser is an absolute delight. Cut glass body with multi angled edges is in a beautiful lemon yellow colour glass with black...

A good size, chunky, early 19th C. primitive dug-out planter. Beautiful colour/wear. Most likely originally used as a trough - now perfect as a planter. - We offer free shipping ...

Fine vintage Jack in the pulpit iridescent art glass vase, possibly by Heron Glass or Czech and dating from the 20th century. The vase has an amethyst tint and is hand blown with a t...

A straight sided slice and pillar cut magnum decanter.

Doulton Lambeth Art Nouveau stoneware vase with stylized floral designs by Nellie Garbett and dating from around 1900. This stylish and tall vase has a central band decorated in reli...

Fine vintage Jack in the pulpit iridescent art glass vase, possibly by Heron Glass or Czech and dating from the 20th century. The vase has an amethyst tint and is hand blown with a t...

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...