Description: Vintage cobalt blue porcelain urn vase with gold decoration around top, base and oval pictures. Lid is gold trimmed as well as finial. Each side has a 10 x 8" oval shaped painting in a pink underglaze. One side is a woman in the clouds with two children on her right and a lion on her left. She has a sickle in her right hand as though she is ready to harvest the surrounding wheat. There is a lobster in the foreground. The second picture is of a man and woman in the clouds with two cherubs and two animals. He is preparing to crown her with a ring of flowers. There is an unidentifiable blue mark on the bottom of the urn.

History: An urn is a vase, ordinarily covered, that usually has a narrowed neck above a footed pedestal. In Classical terms, an urn is a large decorative covered container of wood, metal, pottery, etc. In furniture, it was a large wooden vase-like container which was usually set on a pedestal on either side of a side table. This was the characteristic of Adam designs and also of Hepplewhite's work. Urns were also used as decorative turnings at the cross points of stretchers in 16th and 17th century furniture designs. The urn and the vase were often set on the central pedestal in a "broken" or "swan's" neck pediment. A Figural urn is a style of vase or larger container where the basic urn shape, of either a classic amphora or a crucible style, is ornamented with figures. These may be attached to the main body, forming handles or simply extraneous decorations, or may be shown in relief on the body itself.

Provenance: N/A

Dimensions: Weight (Pounds & Ounces) = 12 | Height(in) = 21 | Width(in) = 6.75 | Depth(in) = 10

Size of Artwork(in): 21 x 6.75 x 10"

Artist Name: Unknown Mark

Medium: Hard Paste.

Circa: 1820 - 40

Some gold trim may have been repainted on lid. There are no chips or cracks.