Large Pair of Japanese Imari Porcelain Floriform Trumpet Floor Vases, circa 1900

A Japanese Imari hand painted porcelain bowl possibly for presenting cooked rice at a celebration. It appears to be styled after a sushi oke, a wooden tub u...

A lovely antique Japanese Imari vase with decoration of the Genroku era of bijin, adorned with flowers on two opposing panels alternating w...

A very good quality 19th century Japanese Imari temple jar with a fluted form to the lid, classical motifs, ikebana flowers, foliage, ribbons and ball...

19th century Japanese Imari lidded vase one side has phoenix and ikebana flowers hand painted in great detail throughout. Colors from natural pigment glazes. Beautiful patina. Ve...

A charming and good quality pair of French ceramic vases. There are hand painted pieces under the glazed finish. The vibrant colors make ...

A celadon colored porcelain floral motif vase, by H. Bequet Quaregnon, Belgium, c. 1940. This decorative vase would look great displayed in an array of interior styes. The celadon and gold trimmed...

A gorgeous pair of 19th-Century Japanese Imari porcelain vases. These fine vases have a lovely shape and hand painted floral design in the traditional Imari...

Pair of antique Japanese Imari vases, circa 1860-1870.

An exceptional pair of large scale late 19th century Japanese Imari temple jars from the Meiji period with covers, also can be referred to as ginger jars. Rare octagonal facet cuts a...

An important and extremely large pair of Magenta Ground Vienna Porcelain Exhibition vases. Austrian, circa 1900. Each vase with blue underglazed ‘Beehive’ mark to interior of neck. Each vase is finely painted with classical scenes to the front and allegorical scenes to the back on a rich magenta ground with gilt foliate decoration. The vases are mounted by extraordinary gilt handles headed by winged female masks to the sides and grotesque masks to the shoulders. The spreading necks decorated with Greek key decoration are surmounted by domed covers and the vases are raised on baluster form supports put down on drum bases finely painted with panels stylised arabesque. The Vienna Porcelain Manufactory was founded in 1718 only eight years after Johann Friedrich Bottger and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus had succeeded in unearthing the secret of Porcelain Manufacture for August the Strong, Elector of Saxony. On May 25, 1718, Emperor Karl VI signed a "special privilege" awarding Claudius Innocentius du Paquier the exclusive right to produce porcelain in the Austrian crown lands. Production being almost exclusively for the imperial household and the court nobility. During the rococo era, Empress Maria Theresia placed the company under imperial ownership and it was during this period that the manufactory began to produce the famous rococo genre scenes after Watteau. Under the management of Conrad Sorgel von Sorgenthal, the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory achieved an international reputation for its neo-classical style. After the wars with France brought the manufactory to the brink of ruin, the Vienna Congress at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century gave porcelain from Vienna a renewed upswing. Many important personalities of the time, including Czar Alexander I of Russia...

A gorgeous antique 19th-Century Japanese Imari porcelain vase. This fine vase is a nice large size and has a lovely shape and hand painted floral design in the traditional Imari...

Large pair of vases with green background called «green garden» in porcelain resting on a base with gold flutings. The shape of the vase is architectured with handles decorated with stylized leafy garlands, ribbons and cords in white porcelain. The body of each vase contains a cartel with a pastoral scene, one of which represents a couple of young shepherds according to Jean-François Boucher...