City-Antik Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

An impressive, extravagant work of art in ideas, richness of detail and craftsmanship, based on a legend according to which the court tailor longed to be allowed to sit at the table ...

Elegant silver teapot with a hexagonal cross-section on a hexagonal offset stand, six-sided swan spout, round opening with pearl band decoration on the side, slightly domed press-in ...

Excellent Meissen porcelain figure: Young gentleman in elaborate rococo clothing of the upper classes: noble white frock coat with golden hems, gold and flower embroidered vest and sleeve cuffs, large black bow on the wig hair, sitting at a magnificent desk with curved...

A playful combination of the functional and the decorative: Female figure in a floor-length, loose dress with a headscarf, a simple face with pierced eyes set wide apart – a long nos...

Elegant silver jardinière in strict architectural Art Nouveau style, square base with curved long sides, on four flared, smooth feet, geometric and curved openwork elements on all si...

Very large double snake handle vase in baluster form on a mounted funnel-shaped stand, handles in the form of coiled snake pairs raised on the side, white and cobalt blue base, fine ...

A dancer in Venetian costume striding forward: a black, tightly laced corset with a wide peplum, in which she has tucked a purple lace shawl that she holds to one side with an outstr...

Delicate Goldscheider Art Déco Ceramic Figurine of the late 1930s: Gracefully posing dancer in dark red costume: polka-dot bustier and short skirt at the front with long, wide, slit ...

Blond boy with woollen hat and mittens, blue ski trousers, yellow jumper and green scarf, cheerfully striding along with skis shouldered and hand casually tucked into his trousers. B...

A very rare Viennese Art Déco ceramic figure: Japanese girl with a flower-adorned page-boy hairstyle standing, wearing only an orange-red cloth draped around her hips, holding a cor...

Delicate baluster vase with bulbous body on round, offset stand with long, slender neck widening slightly to flared rim, colourless glass with flaky white and reddish powdered enamel...

Excellent and rare Meissen porcelain genre group: Elegantly dressed Rococo couple in the shade of a group of trees: a young lady sitting at the feet of her beau, leaning back against...

Original Rococo Meissen Group from the 18th Century. Visibly drunk Silenus, crowned with a wreath of vines, sitting on a donkey and supported by a young Bacchante walking alongside h...

Vienna Augarten horse Spanish riding school 'Trab' The sitting rider conducts the horse by the reins. The trotting horse depicts a figurine whic...

Depiction of a seated, laughing female Buddha figure from a series of folk types. Full-figured body with the hair tied back tightly and the robe tightly fitting the body with wide sl...

Elegant 4-piece silver centerpiece consisting of teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl and tray. Oval basic shape, bulging wall of the vessel body, vertically divided by pilaster-like folds. ...

Exquisite Large Meissen Art Nouveau Porcelain Group: Representation of a mounted warrior with a painted face, wearing only a small loincloth and moccasins on his feet, and crowned wi...

Very Rare Goldscheider Vienna Figurine of the 1920s: Standing pierrette leaned forward and holding her hands together behind her back, in a white costume with a multi-layered, pine-c...

Herend service, consisting of 44 pieces: a large tureen with lid on a presenter, a large oval platter, a large round platter, a square side dish, a sauce boat, two leaf-shaped bowls,...

Herend service, consisting of 27 parts: a large coffee pot with lid, a milk jug, a sugar bowl, twelve coffee cups, twelve saucers. Form: Osier / basket weave Decor: WBOS - Windsor...

Gracefully posing dancer in a predominantly red costume: bustier and floor-length, wide, high-slit skirt with butterfly-wing-like decoration in blue and yellow, holding it up with ou...

Porcelain picture plate with a finely painted polychrome veduta: In the centre, a view of the Viennese summer palace of Schönbrunn with its gardens, as seen from the hill opposite, w...

The centrepiece was designed by Leuteritz using old moulds in the Rococo style: A round, flat, cone-shaped base with abundant rocaille relief decoration, a strong palm tree rising in...

Very large double snake handle vase in baluster form on a mounted funnel-shaped stand, handles in the form of coiled snake pairs raised on the side, white and cobalt blue base, fine ...

Tea solitaire set of six pieces made of porcelain with a white background and elaborate overglaze painting and gold decoration. Quatrefoil presenter with a teapot, milk jug, sugar bo...

Finest Bohemian Art Nouveau Glass Vase: Mould-blown, bulbous body on a round, flush stand, spherical upper part, slightly flared mouth rim over a neck constriction, polished pontil o...

Finest Bohemian Art Nouveau glass vase in the form of a blown, baluster-shaped body with a flared rim. Silver mounting in the form of chased flowers, enclosing the body of the vase l...

Very large double snake handle vase in baluster form on a mounted funnel-shaped stand, handles in the form of coiled snake pairs raised on the side, white and cobalt blue base, fine ...

Exquisite large and rare Meissen Art Nouveau porcelain group: Triton adorned with water lily wreath on his head, half man, half fish with scaled legs leaning against a high wave and ...

Solitary vase in the shape of a drop: bulbous body on a round, stepped base, narrowing as it rises and widening again to a bulging expansion to form a long, slender neck, widening ag...

Large, very elaborately decorated crater vase from the Meissen manufactory, with abundant snowball blossoms on the outer wall, rising above the white flowers in fully sculpted tendri...

Empire silver lidded jug with a stepped, funnel-shaped foot on a square plinth, a large fluted ring decorated with acanthus leaves, in which the smooth, raised bulbous vessel rests, ...

Round silver-plated vessel on a flat stand, slightly outward-curving wall with openwork ivy leaf decoration, raised and curled tendrils on the sides, filled with ivy, forming the han...

Large magnificent silver centrepiece on a round stepped stand with a wide shallow bowl around a baluster-shaped central column, the walls richly decorated with boss decoration and ro...

Finest Meissen Porcelain Figurine: Dancer balancing on her toes, turning her head to the right and bringing her right hand indecisively to her chin, while with her left hand she perf...

Finest Meissen Porcelain Figurine: Dancer balancing on the ball of her left foot, lifting her right leg slightly forward with her foot extended downward, leaning her head to the righ...

Two festive Biedermeier silver candle holders on a cambered stand with straight folds and a curved edge, embossed decorative ribbon on the raised folds on the foot and baluster-shape...

Exceptional Viennese Ceramic Art from the 1930s: Two graceful dancers in long, deeply cut and high slit rose colored dresses with blue floral decorations, facing each other with thei...

Oval porcelain vessel on a flat stand with slightly bulging walls, with two rocaille handles with asparagus bundles, the slightly outward-turned opening edge serving as a support for...

Porcelain picture plate with a finely painted polychrome veduta: The plate shows a view of the Vienna Hofburg, the 'Leopoldinischer Trakt', Leopoldine Wing, with the Ceremonial Apart...

Porcelain picture plate with a finely painted polychrome veduta: In the mirror view of the Viennese summer palace Schönbrunn with the Gloriette on the hill in the background, seen fr...

Two elegant, simple silver candle holders on a round stand, round foot grooved on the side, raised smooth shaft in the middle with a profiled constriction, shaft widening conically t...

Rare pair of elegant oval porcelain vessels on offset, fluted feet, with bulging, raised walls, fluted, indented straight opening rim with ten crenellated-like cut-out small segments...

Complete Vienna clock on six stocky ball feet made of alabaster, architecturally structured wooden case with fruitwood veneers in the shape of a portal, steps in front flanked by two...

A museum piece of French Art Nouveau glass art: Lamp with baluster-shaped foot on a stepped, flat, round stand raised in the centre, hemispherical shade, slightly heat-stretched and pressed upwards on four sides, made of multi-layered glass with coloured powder fusions, predominantly in yellow-orange, red, brown, green and blue-violet tones, with highly etched vine leaves and grapevine decoration, two fully sculpted snails on the foot as a special accent, Cameo signature ‘DAUM NANCY’ with Lorraine cross on the foot in the lower area, and on the shade, which rests on a patinated metal mount, which also carries the threads for the light sources, one at the top and one inside the foot. Technique: Handmade cameo glass Glass overlaid with several layers, with high-cut worked out motifs. Since the middle of the 19th century, the design has also been done by etching. Cameo glass vessels were already being made in antiquity; cameo glass vessels were already being made in ancient times, and at the end of the 19th century this glass art was further developed, especially in Nancy. Manufactory: Daum Frères / Nancy, Lorraine, France Dating: Circa 1905 Dimensions: Height: 53,5 cm / 21.06 in Diameter: 32,0 cm / 12.59 in Bibliography: Carolus Hartmann, Glasmarken-Lexikon / Encyclopedia of Glass Marks, Stuttgart / Germany 1997, Signature number 2984 on page 148, and page 561: Daum Frères & Cie, Verreries de Nancy Condition: Very good The electrification is functional, but should be renewed for safety reasons. About the design: The development of Art Nouveau glass art coincides with a revolution in lighting, the significance of which we can no longer fully appreciate today in the 21st century. Around 1880-1890, oil lamps and paraffin lamps were still almost unrivalled in every household. It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that the ‘electricity fairy’ emerged as a remarkable advance and gradually found its way into the daily lives of all social classes. The glassmakers at the Ecole de Nancy were true pioneers and eagerly seized the opportunity to use electricity to illuminate the colours applied to the glass. Colour was one of the main concerns of the master glassmakers at the Ecole de Nancy. Emile and Antonin Daum returned to the colours that had made the stained glass of the Middle Ages so splendid and extended the palette of colours in the glass mass as they needed it for the floral motifs and exact representations of nature. But the modulation of the colours, their arrangement in juxtaposed patches, the technique that the Impressionist painters practised on their canvases at the same time, was difficult to achieve due to the nature of the glass melted in a large mass. To achieve this richness of expression, around 1900 Daum developed ‘the process of applying glass powder and enamel to the outside of the vases to create coloured backgrounds or decorative spots’, according to the report of the jury of the 1900 World Exhibition. The field of naturalistic, contrasting and shimmering colours was one in which Antonin Daum excelled. This new technical process made it possible to create the symphonies of colour that we find on the ‘Vignes et escargots’ lamp...

Exceptional Goldscheider Art Deco ceramic figure of the 1920's: Depiction of a standing lady proudly looking to the side in oriental garb, wrapped in a large blue-green cloth reachin...

Art Nouveau Meissen porcelain figure from the time the model was created: Boy with brunette hair, dressed in typical children's clothing from around 1900 - dress with white apron, in...

Elegant silver jardinière in an elliptical base shape on four ball feet, straight vertical walls with regular vertical openings, structured by rhythmically placed pilasters with reli...

Meissen Coffee & Dessert Set for 6 Persons: Decor number 363610 - Diadem, Indian border No. 129 - light, colourful with copper tones, gold edge 23 parts: 1 Coffee pot with lid - H ...

Elegant silver jardinière in the shape of a small boat standing on four rocaille feet that project downwards, the vessel in the middle section with a horizontal band of lamellas that...

Exquisite porcelain figurine of the 1930: Aparte dancer in a tight-fitting red costume with short trouser legs and ruff, gymnastic shoes on her feet, balancing on the ball of her rig...

Rare Goldscheider Art Déco figurine of around 1930: Dancer with brown hair pinned up at the nape of her neck in a dress flared like a fan with flounces and floral decoration, leaning...

Graceful young dancer with chin-length hair, taking a step forwards and, with her eyes closed, tilting her upper body slightly backwards in a turning movement while holding the skirt...

Admirable Art Nouveau Group of Figures by Rosenthal: Naked faun-like boy sitting on the back of an ibex, straining his upper body backwards and supporting himself with both arms on t...

Elaborate large porcelain group of the 19th century: In the centre of the group of three, the chosen one, with a feathered hat and a flower garland around her hips, which also encirc...

Tall festive silver centrepiece on a curved, funnel-shaped stand on four feet with generous relief decoration of flowers and ribbons as the base for the three-dimensional caryatid in...

Elegant silver centerpiece on a tall, round, fluted, tiered base on four divided feet with floral decoration, with elongated radial and alternating small diamond-shaped perforations ...

A pair of tall festive silver candelabra on a stepped funnel-shaped stand, based on four lion feet with volute and foliate decoration, radial pleated decoration to the lower rim, the fluting and cone of the foot of plain design with two applied oval panels to the front and back, framed by elaborate volute and floral decoration, on a round, domed disc, in the centre a fully sculpted caryatid in an ancient Greek dress...

Diamond-shaped silver-plated vessel standing on four cantilevered feet, slightly flared body with openwork ivy leaf decoration playing around the heart-shaped cartouches set centrall...

Excellent Goldscheider ceramic figurine of the late 1930s: Young elegant lady in an off-the-shoulder top of black lace and a long skirt of red lace swinging up in waves at the back, ...