Vienna porcelain plate, Psyche. Hutschenreuter, c. 1900.

A rare Derby porcelain figure of a sheep, c. 1760. The finely modelled sheep, grazing amongst a flower strewn base, and painted with liver coloured spots. Unusually, the base is hand...

Royal Copenhagen porcelain basket, Flora Danica, date code for 1969-1974. The lattice weave basket, having twin entwined branch handles, and moulded with flower heads and leaves, wit...

A fine pair of Meissen porcelain figure groups, c.1765 -1775. Elaborately modelled by Carl Christoph Punct, as a shepherd and shepherdess, in 18th Century dress, and set upon open ro...

Hochst porcelain teapot and cover, c. 1755. The globular body, hand painted with a farmer and a shepherdess, seated beneath a tree, on a riverbank. The man holds a footed bowl of fru...

A fine Paris porcelain coffee can and saucer, possibly Dihl Et Guerhard, c. 1810. The coffee can, hand painted in the style of Gerard van Spaendonck, with ...

Ludwigsburg porcelain group, modelled by Johann Christoph Haselmeyer, c. 1770. A courting couple, dressed in 18th Century costume, seated upon rocks, before an elaborate rococo scroll architectural feature, edged in gilt. The boy holds a pipe, whilst attempting caress the girl, who attempts to avoid his advance. She holds a small knife...

A fine antique Austrian porcelain ewer. In the Royal Vienna style. Depicting the goddess Psyche in the clouds attended by Donatello style p...

Exquisite porcelain plate with elaborate painting Wall with golden and violet edges with golden leaves, flag with a white background, divided by dark red medallions, framed with p...

A fine, signed Art Nouveau porcelain cabinet plate. By Royal Vienna. Signed Wagner to the lower right. With a hand painted depiction of Ruth to the center surrounded by a blue & green border richly decorated with platinum, raised gold, & rich gilding. Marked to the reverse with a blue underglaze Royal Vienna beehive...

Antique painted and gilt royal Vienna porcelain plate Austrian, late 19th century Dimensions: Height 2.5cm, diameter 24cm Of circular...

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...

Stunning picture plate with figurines of Royal Vienna Porcelain Manufactory: Finest quality / edged areas are decorated with so-said Grotesque (Italian: Grotteschi) pattern laid on purple red and rose red ground and painted in golden color. Material is porcelain (multicolored painted). Manufactured circa 1880-1890.  Blue Apocryphal Beehive Mark (underglazed) of Royal Vienna Porcelain Manufactory. Made in Imperial Austria / Bohemia.   Stunning picture painting, mythological scene, in middle area existing: A female figurine clad in antique garments is painted here - most probably it is a v sojourning in surroundings / environment depicting idyllic landscape - green fertile, well wooded as well as rocky scenery. The nymph, watched by a Cherub of love...