United Kingdom - Vases and Vessels

Stunning Art Deco green glass perfume scent bottle with black enamel geometric decoration and original silk puffer. Beautiful deep green glass, very collectable dating from the 1930s...

Mid-20th century ceramic vessel in neutral tones, by British artist Bernard Rooke. The vessel has a trapezoidal shape decorated with hieroglyphics front and back, and glazed to the ...

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...

This is a heavy antique chemist's mortar. An English, cast iron decorative planter pot, dating to the mid Georgian period, circa 1750. Fascinatingly weathered Georgian mortar Displa...

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...

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...

Of conical shape with retracted neck and griffin handles, the 'fond lapis' parcel-gilt and painted surface depicting on one side a colourful scene with children and on the other a bo...

Set of three large Sèvres style porcelain vases with gilt bronze pedestals. French, Early 20th Century Large Vase: Height 162cm, width 63cm, depth 48cm. Large Vases Pedestal: Heig...

Title: Rare antique set of 10 pharmacy bottles apothecary glass with gold leaf   Beautiful set of ten pharmaceutical bottles, circa 1900 originally from a chemists in Northern Ireland. Note the exquisite gold leaf framed labels which make them real collectors items (and add value). These elegant bottles lined pharmacy shelves until the late 1920s. We’ve selected the bottles with the most attractive and desirable titles as well as pretty finish and in a variety of sizes and assorted top designs to compliment each other. The rounded stoppers are hand blown glass making them more valuable than the others due to it’s finer craftsmanship, the plain chisel top designs are elegant and feel extremely tackle to the touch fitting perfectly with ones thumb, with some finished with superb hand cut edges which are more labor intensive specimens, and almost reminiscent of a perfume bottle. The shorthand Latin (some ancient Greek) names for these botanical delights gives more detail to be admired. They are all empty but some have a wonderful slight residue of its past contents lining the inside of the bottle. Unusual and stunning treasure as a unique feature to accessorise your interior just as fragrance bottles and cosmetic jars would. Works wonderfully as a collection lined up in a stylish bathroom whether traditional or contemporary (see photo of a collection on an antique marble Georgian washstand...

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...

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 ...

Large pair of Sèvres-style porcelain vases with Napoleonic scenes French, Late 19th Century Height 123cm, diameter 40cm Standing at over a metre in height, these impressive baluster form vases are painted with scenes of Napoleonic victory. The vases are notable for the deep green ground that adorns the neck and foot – unusual for such Sèvres-style objects. The green is complemented by superb parcel gilt decoration, which includes large ‘N’ initials...

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...

A very fine, stylish and unusual mallet shaped art glass vase in amberina orange and red glass the body of rounded gourd shape with ribs running up the body from the base and with a ...

Margaret Gilmour attributed in the style of Talwin Morris. An Arts & Crafts Glasgow school brass planter with embossed kissing love birds.   

This is a pair of portico tables. An English, walnut and cast iron statuary or planter stand, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1850. Exquisite and ...

Shapland and Petter. An Arts & Crafts oak planter with opposing copper heart shaped panels.

René Lalique opalescent glass 'Paquerettes' vase. This pattern features daisies in relief around the outside. Stenciled makers mark, 'R LALIQUE FRANCE' to the underside. Book referen...

Pair of French Bronze and Marble Urns France, circa 1870 A decorative pair of 19th-century French urns in the neoclassical style, finely cast and mounted in gilt and patinated bron...

Dating to the 1930's this very attractive and rare Art Deco powder bowl stand. Depicts a flapper girl sat on a a chair with her legs . The attention to detail is just wonderful, so s...

This is a vintage decorative flower vase. A Chinese, ceramic stem sleeve in Art Deco revival taste, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1980...

Dating to the 1930's this very attractive and rare Art Deco trinket box is made by a German company. Rare and in excellent condition, I couldn't f...

A very rare and large early Clarice Cliff for royal Staffordshire twin handled mantle vase. The all over cream glaze enhances the classic fluted lines and curved handles A truly ...

This is a vintage decorative stem vase. A Chinese, ceramic flower sleeve in Art Deco revival taste, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1980. Presents beautifully with appealing decor and colour Displaying a desirable aged patina and free of marks Classic stem vase form with crisp white ceramic Attractive foliate bouquets to centre with blue and red hues Distinctive banners to neck and base present a variety of scenes and pattern motif This is a distinctive vintage...

A large Brutalist brass and aluminium vase with twin handles by David Marshall Spain, 1970s

A collection of French LA LORRAINE glass preserve jars. Each is unique and varies in size. The largest being 29cm H. 34 available. PRICED INDIVIDUALLY.

Vasart, an iridescent pink and blue swirl glass vase. In September 1946, Salvador Ysart and two of his sons (Vincent and Augustine) left Monart g...

This is a large vintage decorative temple urn. An English, ceramic vase with cover, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1950. Striking finish across a ...

An exceptional piece of 20th-century Anatolian craftsmanship, this Turkish amphora features a distinctive triple-handled design that reflects its utili...

Longpark Pottery Torquay Devon. A pair of rustic ceramic vases with applied floral decoration and a typical yellow glaze to the flowers and brown glaze to the body. One incised with ...

A fine early 19th Century Regency period campana-shaped figured mahogany Cellarette/Jardiniere in the manner of Gillows of Lancaster constructed in solid end grain section, raised on...

Wimbledon-Furniture Wimbledon-Furniture is delighted to offer for sale this lovely hand carved Corinthian pillar with floral detailing Please note the delivery fee listed is j...

Pair Antique Art Nouveau French Gold Ormolu Crystal Glass Vases Baccarat French, c. 1905 Height 33cm, diameter 14cm Crafted by the prestigious French glassmakers Baccarat, renown...

Exceptional quality antique Japanese Imari octagonal baluster vase and cover, having a quality Japanese imari vase and cover surmounted by a Kylin finial to the top with a octagonal ...

This is a stunning and very rare pair of vases made by Coalport in around 1845. The vases have rich gilding in the Persian Revival style, combined with very English floral reserves of freely painted flower bouquets on a puce ground. Incorporated into the gilding on the back of the vases is a very English swan...

A Very Tall Oriental Ceramic Satsuma Vase This is a superb statement piece, the vase is 3ft 6” tall and has traditional hand decoration with paisley designs and characters, the va...

A Very Tall WMF Myra Vase, c1930 Clearly inspired by Louis Comfort Tiffany favrile vases and frequently misidentified such is the high degree of similarity. Additional information:...

This is a large vintage baluster vase, a Czechoslovakian Amphora pottery vase dating to the mid-20th century. Of Classic form and in good proportion...

Antique quality Royal Worcester blush ivory jardiniere having a quality antique Royal Worcester blush ivory jardiniere with wonderful leaf decora...

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...

Beautiful antique Talavere blue and white vase having a beautiful antique blue and white vase with twin shaped handles to the sides with vine detailing, a fluted shaped neck above a ...

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...

Lovely antique cloisonné shaped vase, having a lovely shaped vase decorated with flowers in beautiful blue and gold colours. D. 1920

This exquisite jardinière was manufactured by the celebrated English company Minton, who are famous for their ceramics. It was designed by Baron Carlo Marochetti (1805-1867), an Italian-born sculptor who worked in London in the latter part of his career. His most famous work is the bronze sculpture of Richard the Lionheart...

Pair of antique 19th century bohemian green cut glass vases Bohemian, circa 1870 Dimensions: Height 23cm, diameter 13cm Cut from uranium glas...

This is a pair of antique cloisonne spice jars. An English, ceramic decorative lidded ginger jar, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Pleasingly decorative example of English cloisonne Displays a desirable aged patina and in good order Dome top decorated with pink flowers, blue hemisphere pattern and brass trim Medium blue ground decorated with copious foliate detail Pink, lilac and red flowerheads adorn the bulbous form Removing the dome lid presents an opening diameter of 7.5cm (3'') Interior of jar finished in attractive, bright turquoise hue Standing upon a brass painted rim with turquoise base This is an eye-catching pair of antique spice jars...

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

This important vase by Anzolo Fuga belongs to the celebrated Murrine Incatenate series, created in 1960 during his collaboration with the renowned Murano workshop A.Ve.M. (Arte Vetra...

Pair of floral silver vases produced in Qajar Persia Persian, late 19th century Measures: Height 27cm, diameter 9.5cm These fine Persian silver vases are adorned with repoussé a...

This is a large vintage stem vase. An Oriental, ceramic flower urn, dating to the late Art Deco period, circa 1950. Of appealing proportion, ideal for...

A tall stoneware vase France, 1960s

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this medium sized 1929 Art Deco Antique cut glass Crystal Perfume bottle flask A very good looking well mad...

Art Deco original cut glass large perfume atomiser. Beautiful and very collectable dating from the 1930s and in unused condition. French in origin and still with it's original label. We also have matching perfume bottle and powder bowl in same design, see other listings. In vivid blue and silver enamelled geometric design this makes a striking design. Original silk puffer...

A pair of late 19th century Kutani coral orange and gilt double gourd vases, floral and landscape decoration with the traditional lion and phoenix Japan, circa 1880.

Victorian large copper cooking pot circa 1890. Beautiful example of a large cooking pot, which are now popular to use as fireside log bins....

Polished brass antique pestle and mortar set Continental, c. 1900 Mortar: height 12 cm, diameter 13 cm Pestle: length 18.5 cm, diameter 4 ...

For your consideration is this wonderful 1930s Art Deco glass perfume bottle, it's an absolute beauty and such a rare find. Black enamel ...

Showa Period Circa 1940 From our Japanese collection, we are pleased to offer this Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vase by Tamura. The vase of tapered cylindrical form with a tigh...

Outstanding quality 19th century large Chinese famille rose vase decorated with two large panels showing numerous figures in traditional clothing within a court setting, profusely an...

Add an element of aged beauty to your space with this vintage weathered patina terracotta pot, a handcrafted earthenware vessel rich in character and history. With its naturally aged...