French Porcelain Covered Urn Vase w Lid Shades of Green Small Girl Flowers Thistles Leaves c 1880

Antiques : Ceramics, Porcelain : French

$350 USD
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This is a French hard paste porcelain covered urn or vase, with a lid. The age is 19th century, circa 1880.

The urn is 10 1/2” high to the top of the finial and 6 ¼” wide from handle-to-handle.

The function is to hold the ashes of a loved one, such as a family member or a beloved pet. If the lid is removed, the urn can be used as a vase to hold flowers.

The shape is cylindrical, with a gilded handle on each side.

The front and the back have three panels, like windows looking out into a garden, and the panels have different garden-theme decorations, with the same patterns repeated on the opposite side of the urn. The patterns are lithograph transfers, but done in shades of green, which is very unusual, and designed to convey the feeling of looking into a garden. There are some strokes of enamel in raised relief, applied by hand, as additional decoration to the transfers, and some touches of pink color. The left panel shows leaves and flowers. The middle panel shows a young girl, who is seated on a grassy bank, and she appears to be blowing a thistle ball into the air, with the fluffy seeds showing as dots of white enamel. The right panel shows more leaves and thistle flowers.

Each panel is surrounded by porcelain in raised relief and covered in gold, so as to impart the feeling of the panels being windows. The lower part of each panel has thicker ridges of porcelain, like the drape of a window cord.

The lid has a dome with a round finial, and decorated with lines of gold.

The urn would be appropriate to hold the ashes of a loved one who liked to garden, or a young child, or a pet who loved to be outdoors. It is difficult to express, but this is a special type of urn that should belong to somebody who really loved their garden.

There are no chips, cracks or crazing. The inside of the urn is glazed white, and there are some glazing imperfections. There is some staining on the bottom interior. The underside of the urn shows some wear and dirt on the unglazed perimeter. There is only mild rubbing wear to the gold trim.

The underside of the vase shows two sets of numbers handwritten in black enamel, as “39511” followed by “64.” There is the remains of a very old faded sticker on the bottom that reads, “1880 France …” There is another faded sticker on the underside of the lid that reads “6232.”

The vase is unmarked as to the maker, modeler or decorator.

Item ID: RL-289