Large Austrian Royal Vienna Bronze Mounted covered Vase, circa 1890

A Fine & Large Austrian Antique Royal Vienna Iridescent Painted Vase. The front finely painted with two maidens bathing next to a river. The rear ...

This magnificent large Royal Vienna porcelain covered urn is Surmounted by domed cover with acorn finial and flanked by satyr mask handles, centered by a panel depicting scenes of th...

A beautiful antique Royal Vienna hand painted "Jeweled" porcelain portrait vase. The vase is painted with a portrait of a young lady wearing flowers in her hair. The iridescent red ...

A Very Fine 19th Century Austrian Royal Vienna Lidded Vase Titled: "Verschnrindene Illusionen" Circa 1870 Origin: Austria Height: ...

A Royal Vienna Style Hand Painted & Jeweled Porcelain Vase Titled: "Graceful" Circa 1910 Origin: Austria Depth: 2" Width: 2" Height:...

An antique Royal Vienna style miniature porcelain vase depicting Marie Antoinette. This shape is quite rare. I have sold many porcelain vases a...

Pair of exquisite 19th century Royal Vienna porcelain vases. A fine example of the Neo-Classical Austrian style, these vases are decorated with an ornate garden floral motif. Encrusted with sculptural bunches of pink and yellow roses, and painted with tiny bees, butterflies, and gold accents. The Royal Vienna mark (Bindenschild, or shield) appears on the base of each vase in blue. Each vase measures 7"H x 4"W x 4"D. History of The Royal Vienna Porcelain Factory: The Royal Vienna Porcelain factory was founded in 1717 by Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier...

Royal Vienna pair of finely hand painted and background gilded covered vases. The vases are in neoclassical style, depicting the scenes from the legends of Orpheus and Eurydice. Each...

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

An impressive imperial-style Vienna vase, hand-painted with cartouches of Greek mythological scenes. The gilt porcelain handles are in the shape of coiled serpents and the body is el...

An Extremely rare pair of early Royal Vienna Porcelain Hand decorated Milk and Cream Pitchers or Jugs of medium proportion and outstanding workmanship, both of traditional bulbous outline, each with applied “C” scroll handle...

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...