Pair Antique English Blue & White Wedgwood Porcelain Planters, Circa 1890-1900.

Pair Antique English Crown Derby Porcelain planters.

Antique English Wedgwood porcelain biscuit barrel, Circa 1890-1910.

Pair Antique English wedgwood porcelain plaques, "The Dancing Hours."

Antique English Repousse Brass Planter, Circa 1900's.

Antique English wedgwood porcelain lamp, Circa 1890,

Set of 12 antique French limoges porcelain oyster plates, circa 1890-1900.

Exceptional Chinese porcelain planters circa 1925 Original pedestals. Porcelain measures: Height: 26 cm. Diameter: 63 cm. Total height: 139 cm.

Pair of 1900 vases in blue porcelain of Tours with gilded decoration of roses topped by ribbons. These gold-coloured motifs are typical of the Art Nouveau decorations of the ceramist...

An antique German floor vase by Heinrich offers porcelain construction with hand painted floral elements and gilt highlights throughout, maker mark on base as photographed, c1900 Me...

Outstanding pair of porcelain vases, so-called miniature vases, made around 1880-1900, late napoleon III, country of origin: France. These nice objects are out of white porcelain wit...

Antique Meissen Blue Onion vase in hand-painted porcelain. Approx. 1900. Measures: 23.5 x 13 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped. 3rd factory quality.

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...