vintage ceramic swan planter and matching floral urn vase set Trimmed With Gold For Sale

Vintage French swan and floral poppy Urn trimmed in gold set. Beautiful set for decorating any home. Ceramic and porcelain factories in France and Germany produced decorative mantel pieces like these swan-themed vessels during the twentieth century for middle-class homes. They were made to adorn sideboards and fireplace mantels as part of the popular revival of classical and romantic decorative styles in domestic interior design. Workers cast them in plaster molds from liquid clay called slip, then hand-applied the metallic gold highlights and transfer-printed floral bouquets before firing them in kilns.Families placed these ornamental vases and planters in living rooms and parlors to display dried flowers or simply to add a touch of elegance to the room. As interior decoration tastes shifted toward minimalist and modern designs in the later decades of the century, the popularity of such ornate ceramic pieces declined significantly. Their use eventually faded from everyday home decoration, leaving them as collectible mementos of a bygone era of domestic styling.