Franz Wagner Vases

Mid-19th century large Dresden gold gilt with painted scene design details porcelain decorative urn / vase. The urn / vase is in good antique condition. M...

19th century pair of French figural glazed porcelain vases / urns with exterior gilt painted design scene details. Each vase / urn is in good condition. No chips, cracks, or restoration observed. Minor wear consistent with age / use. Each one stands about 19.5 inches tall x 8 inches wide X 4.5 deep pair of French figural porcelain...

A very good quality 19th century Vienna porcelain vase, depicting classical scenes and gilded borders.

Crafted by the esteemed artist Franz Wagner, this gilt bronze box with a hand-painted porcelain plaque perfectly embodies the illustrious Vienna Porcelain Manufactory's legacy. Wagne...

A Fine Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain Vase Covered top with an acorn style finial, above a long decorated spiral neck with raised gilt designs, the body s...

19th Century English Derby porcelain urn.

The Vienna Porcelain Manufactory is illustrious for its production of porcelain boxes like this one hand-painted by Franz Wagner. The artist paints a beautiful and luminescent miniat...

A Palatial Pair of Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Cobalt Blue Porcelain Vases and Covers Each of baluster form with domed cover with pine cone finial, above a wa...

An antique Royal Vienna lidded pate sur pate, paste on paste porcelain urn vase. The vase is adorned with an image of a Neoclassical medallion portrait of a woman surrounded by a gil...

A monumental Royal Vienna Iridescent porcelain portrait vase and cover, Wagner, circa 1880. This Royal Vienna Urn features an exceptional iridescent ...

A fine, antique Royal Vienna porcelain cabinet vase entitled "Ustana." This cobalt blue ground vase has a finely painted central cartou...

A museum quality early 19th century Paris porcelain urn. The twin handled vase sits on a rectangular porcelain base (modelled as part of the vase), which is decorated on all four sides with finely painted scenes titled 'Gene de Corrinte', 'Gene de Mytilene', 'Gene de Sparte', and 'Gene de Chiu' in reference to various Greek city states. The ovoid body of the vase is richly decorated with Greek key and stylized acanthus designs over and below a large gilt framed oval cameo of Athena on one side and a similar cameo on the other side bearing an undecipherable name. The overall background colour scheme of the vase is dark red/burgundy and dark emerald green, two colours which were more commonly used by the Dagoty factory in Paris than other porcelain manufacturing firms at the time. The vase is unsigned. Note: Pierre Louis Dagoty's porcelain was characterized by the use of vivid colours and the thick application of burnished gold leaf. He borrowed from the repertoire of Neoclassical ornament but his designs also included Egyptian and Chinoiseries motifs. Dagoty's elegant ceramics won him the patronage of Empress Joséphine. At the height of production, in 1807, he employed over a hundred workers, and exported his wares to Russia. After the fall of the First French Empire in 1814, manufacture continued under the Duchesse d'Angoulême, the only surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Between 1816 and 1820, Dagoty worked in partnership with François Maurice Honoré. In 1817. Dagoty and Honoré received a commission from President James Monroe...