Pair of Vienna Style Porcelain Vases and Covers

A Fine and Large Pair of Vienna Style Porcelain Vases and Covers, on Stands. Each of elongated slender out-shape. Each with cobalt blue-ground neck and cover with gilt-embossed deco...

A Fine and Large Pair of Vienna Style Porcelain Vases and Covers, on Stands. Each of urn out-shape with loop handles. Each with cobalt blue-ground neck and cover with gilt-embossed ...

A fine pair of Vienna Style Porcelain tureens and covers. Each cover with finely painted figural mythological scenes of Venus, Cupid and nymphs in the style of Angelica Kaufmann...

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 fine pair of royal Vienna porcelain vases and covers with mythological scenes. With blue ground, gilded and decorated with mythological scenes, Austria, late 19th century. Origin:...

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

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...

Pair of Vienna Style Porcelain Covered Urns Each with a beehive mark in blue. Each spherical vessel with double-scrolled gilt handles, beneath ...