Pair of Vienna Style Porcelain Vases and Covers

A fine pair of Vienna style covered cylindrical vases, on square footed socle bases. The vases are decorated with classical scenes including Jupiter an...

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 Vienna style porcelain vase and cover by Fischer & Mieg, Pirkenhammer, with a Painted Reserve of ‘An Allegory of Love’ After Titian, By Franz Wagner. The underside of each ...

A Fine Pair of Gilt-Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Vases and Covers. The painted reserves signed 'G. Poitevin.'. This fine pair of pair of vase...

A fine pair of Sèvres-style napoleonic gilt bronze mounted cobalt-blue ground porcelain vases. Signed by the artist 'H. Desprez Sevres'. Each vase is of inverted ovoid form finely painted all-over with Napoleonic battle...

An exquisite pair of highly decorated Royal Vienna Gilt Porcelain covered vases. Scenes of neoclassical beauties on all four sides with large paintings on the front and back, and sm...

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...

A wonderful little Vienna style porcelain vase. With an oval picture depicting two cherubs at play with raised gold designs, fluted neck and lion paw feet standing on a round base.

Pair of large lidded Royal Vienna porcelain vases Austrian, 19th Century Height 61cm, width 42cm, depth 19cm This exceptional pair of vases combine an intriguing form with superb p...