A Pair of Vienna Style Porcelain Iridescent Burgundy Ground Ewers on Stands

A fine pair of Vienna style porcelain gilt and cobalt-blue ground vases with covers, late 19th century. Each painted with a continuous mythological view, raised on three paw feet abo...

A very fine pair of Vienna cobalt blue porcelain covered urns with male mask handles. Each covered urns and covers; cobalt blue ground; loop handles terminating at classical male mas...

A Fine Royal Vienna gilt-decorated jeweled iridescent portrait porcelain covered urn Signed Wagner Origin: Austria Date: circa 1900 Dimension: 20 1/2 in. x 8 in.

Pair of bleu celeste ground porcelain vases with fluted necks and four painted scenes of what appears to be two young members of the high court on the front and back of each vase. Th...

Magnificent pair of Royal Vienna-style porcelain urns each with a claret ground and a painted reserve depicting classical figures in allegorical theme. Date: 19th century Origin...

The pair of Austrian ovoid-form porcelain vases and cover with sharply angular gilt handles, Ackermann & Fritze, Rudolstadt-Volkestedt. The bright pink body centered on either side w...

A fine quality 19th Century Vienna porcelain Ewer on stand with burgundy and gilded decoration.  

Vase Hollandais, Sevres-style with Sevres mark interlaced L's underneath. The color reserves painted on either side with mythological and pastural scenes ...

A pair of large Royal Vienna gilt and painted porcelain ewers. Austrian, late 19th Century. 42.5cm high x 20cm wide x 17cm depth. This superb pair of large Royal Vienna gilt and...

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...

A pair of 19th century Louis XVI Style Royal Vienna Porcelain Iridescent pink vases with neoclassical scenes. Of rounded form these covered vases are spectacular. Each has a particul...

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