Fine Pair of Vienna Style Porcelain Tureens and Cover

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 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 ...

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...

PAIR of French (19th Century) porcelain tureens with red, white and blue floral decoration and gilt trim and a cover with handle (PRICED AS PAIR) (Related item: GRL0563A)

Decorated with a Classical Scene Measurements Saucer 2.7cm High x 13.4cm Diameter (1.1 x 5.3 Inches) Cup 6.5cm High x 8.5cm Long x 6.5cm Wide (2.56 x 3.35 x 2.56 Inches) From our C...

Exquisite Royal Vienna portrait porcelain gilded cabinet plate featuring hand-painted illustrations of two beautiful young neoclassical women lounging in a garden. The cobalt blue bo...

Set of 5 Porcelain Snails Knife signed Limoges, circa 1930.