Antique Pair of Vienna Porcelain Urns Signed J.Lohner, circa 1900

A superb quality and very beautiful antique Vienna Porcelain hand painted two-handled vase, Circa 1880 in date. Painted with a mythological figural group scene on one side, and pl...

This is a beautiful antique pair of French Sevres style porcelain and ormolu mounted twin handled urns, in the Louis XV manner, Circa 1870 in date. The bleu celeste...

This is a beautiful antique pair of French Sevres porcelain twin masque head handled lidded urns with dome lids, in the Louis XV manner, Circa 1870 in date. The vases with a duck...

A superb antique pair of Italian Grand Tour patinated bronze Campana urns, circa 1870 in date. This superb pair of patinated bronze campana urns are after the Borghese models with ...

This is a remarkable pair of antique French silvered bronze and marble pedestal Grand Tour Urns, circa 1860 in date. These stunning urns have been superbly cast in high relief wit...

This is a beautiful antique pair of Helena Wolfsohn Augustus Rex club Dresden porcelain vases and covers, circa 1850 in date. Each ovoid shaped vase ...

Royal Vienna Austria hand painted Porcelain double handled Urn, circa 1900. A burgundy red ground wit gilt leaves and floral accents throughout. The central area depicts a hand pa...

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...

Highly important pair of royal Vienna painted porcelain urn and cover Painted with two large allegorical scenes. Cobalt blue ground with gold raised decoration and two handles. Sign...

A very good quality pair of late 19th century Vienna porcelain lidded urns. Each with a cobalt blue ground, gilded scrolling boarders and romantic classical scenes.

Pair of ceramic planters signed Austria. Vienna Secession period, circa 1900.

Each two handled urn is painted with a romantic view, one a castle, the other a country cottage, within a shaped gilt and yellow border. on a molded and cobalt-blue ground. The back is gilt with a stylized design, the base is molded with acanthus. Each is numbered in red 155 underneath. These perhaps adorned an early 19th century mantelpiece...