Fine Pair of Vienna Style Porcelain Tureens and Cover

A Large Pair of Vienna Style Porcelain Vases and Covers. Each of tapering baluster shape decorated with gilt flowers and anthemion against a claret and ivy green ground. The front w...

A fine pair of Vienna style covered cylindrical vases, on square footed socle bases. The vases are decorated with classical scenes including Jupiter an...

A fine Vienna style porcelain vase and cover by Fischer & Mieg, Pirkenhammer, with a Painted Reserve of ‘An Allegory of Love’ After Titian, By Franz Wagner. The underside of each ...

A Sèvres style blue ground gilt metal mounted circular box and cover. A Sèvres style blue ground gilt metal mounted circular box and cover, painted with a quarter-length portrait ...

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 fine pair of gilt-bronze mounted cobalt blue Sèvres style porcelain vases and covers. Each vase is of amphora form with domed covers, scrolled handles and square section re-entrant gilt-bronze plinth bases. The body of each vase is of cobalt blue ground enriched with fine gilt tooling and centred to the front with a finely painted cartouche of a pastoral scene in the 18th century manner of Watteau and to the reverse with a landscape. The inside of each cover inscribed in underglaze red...

Fine ‘Vienna‘ Austria porcelain vase. The vase of Classic Roman shape with flared rim and pinched neck with scrolling shoulders and tapered body stood...

Exquisite Royal Vienna portrait porcelain gilded cabinet plate featuring hand-painted illustrations of two beautiful young neoclassical women lounging in a garden. The cobalt blue bo...

Set of 5 Porcelain Snails Knife signed Limoges, circa 1930.  

A pair of black and white dog ceramic salt and pepper shakers. Dimensions: 3.75" Tall 3" Deep 2.25" Wide.  

Italian blue glazed ceramic bowl or dish. Classic mediterranean ceramic design featuring blue, green, and navy glazes. Stunning when full of l...

A pair of vintage Mid-Century Modern gazelle or antelope motif ceramic salt and pepper shakers. This pair is created from ceramic and g...