Royal Vienna Porcelain Furniture

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...

This extremely rare partial set of dinner service was produced at the Royal Vienna Factory in 1851 under the direction of Baron Leithner, ten years before the factory closed. During Leithner's direction, the factory and it's artists were still known for their splendid and expensive gilding which is displayed on each of the pieces in this set. I purchased this set in the later 1980s from Butterfield and Butterfield, and was told that it was consigned by the estate of a Austrian woman who brought the dishes over from Vienna. Purported the set was part of a very large set of dishes belonging to the household of the Empress Elizabeth...

Stunning picture plate with figurines of Royal Vienna Porcelain Manufactory: Finest quality / edged areas are decorated with so-said Grotesque (Italian: Grotteschi) pattern laid on purple red and rose red ground and painted in golden color. Material is porcelain (multicolored painted). Manufactured circa 1880-1890.  Blue Apocryphal Beehive Mark (underglazed) of Royal Vienna Porcelain Manufactory. Made in Imperial Austria / Bohemia.   Stunning picture painting, mythological scene, in middle area existing: A female figurine clad in antique garments is painted here - most probably it is a v sojourning in surroundings / environment depicting idyllic landscape - green fertile, well wooded as well as rocky scenery. The nymph, watched by a Cherub of love...

Antique parcel gilt and painted porcelain charger plate by Royal Vienna Austrian, late 19th Century Frame: Diameter 53.5, depth 3.5 Plaque: Diameter 49cm, depth 2.5cm This beautiful charger plate was crafted by the famous Royal Vienna Porcelain Manufactory. Royal Vienna was founded in 1718, making it one of the first factories to produce porcelain goods in Europe. Antique Royal Vienna items are today held in important art collections, including the Uffizi in Florence, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Frick Collection in New York. This charger is marked with the blue beehive-shaped shield of the Royal Vienna factory. The charger features a central painting, depicting the abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots. Mary was forced to renounce the Scottish throne...

This beautiful charger was created by the famous Royal Vienna porcelain manufactory in Austria. Founded in 1718, the factory was one of the first to create hard-paste porcelain in Eu...

A very fine 19th century Royal Vienna framed plate of Queen Louisa A very well painted Royal Vienna plate with a cobalt blue and gold decorated ...

This fantastic porcelain plaque features some exceptionally splendid gilded decoration, but it is the central Biblical scene which makes it a truly special piece. Depicting the story...

An impressive imperial-style Vienna vase, hand-painted with cartouches of Greek mythological scenes. The gilt porcelain handles are in the shape of coiled serpents and the body is el...

This exquisite pair of Blanc De Chin Figures of Venetian Fencers are full of Movement and Attitude. They have the underglaze blue marks of the Habsburg Coat of Arms, the Bindenschild...

A good quality 19th century Vienna porcelain mantel clock. Each of the porcelain panels depicting classical scenes, set in gilded ormolu. The clock being an eight-day movement and ch...

A beautiful antique Royal Vienna hand painted "Jeweled" porcelain portrait vase. The vase is painted with a portrait of a young lady wearing flowers in her hair. The iridescent red ...

A very fine 19th century "Royal Vienna" hand painted gilt bronze mounted porcelain covered urn. The 360 degree body finely painted in the Bouguereau style with a maiden playing a Lyre, other maidens in the background, and a cherub picking flowers near a river. The swirly neck and base extremely decorative and rare. The top with a pomegranate finial Austria, Circa 1890 Marked with the under glazed Royal Vienna Beehive...

Comprising 12 dessert plates, four low tazzas and two high tazzas, painted with mythological armorous scenes by Kreyser, with a richly gilt cobalt blue border, with beehive mark. Me...

A beautiful Royal Vienna vase, delicately hand-painted with the enchanting Louise in her beautiful gown decorated with a long pink sash captured moving in the wind. The details on th...

A Fine & Large Austrian Antique Royal Vienna Iridescent Painted Vase. The front finely painted with two maidens bathing next to a river. The rear ...

This magnificent large Royal Vienna porcelain covered urn is Surmounted by domed cover with acorn finial and flanked by satyr mask handles, centered by a panel depicting scenes of th...

An antique late 19th-century Neoclassical porcelain tazza or footed serving plate of kylix shape by Royal Vienna, an Austrian porcelain manufacturer. Iridiscent blue and purple rims and foot with gilt ornaments. The central part of the plate is hand-painted with a female portrait. Signed by the artist on the right, H. Stadler. Blue beehive hallmark, red number 3214 and title Louise Lebrun are on the bottom of the item. Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, 1755 to 1842, was a prominent French portrait painter. Collectible Porcelain Decor...

Two large, splendid porcelain plates with elaborate painting: cobalt blue flag with dense, scattered flower painting in gold, delimited by Fine and wider gold rims, collar in pink wi...

A real Vienna porcelain urn, with Classic figural scenes. Period 19th century in very good state of conservation, this is a beautiful example of fine Vienna royal...