Wonderful Little Vienna Style Porcelain Vase

A nice late 19th century Vienna style porcelain vase of Venus Depicting an oval picture of Venus in front, with raised gold floral and foliage designs surrounding the vase and two...

Beautiful late 19th century Royal Vienna porcelain vase and cover depicting Apollo The greenish vase with painted with figures of Apollo surrounded by many of his followers, raise...

A fine late 19th century Se`vres style porcelain vase. Twisting neck above a floral frieze, flanked by ram faces. In late 1739-early 1740 the Se`vres porcelain factory opened i...

A pair of finely painted late 19th century pink Sèvres style porcelain vases and covers. Signed Eug Poitevin. Each with painted designs on all four s...

A palatial pair of late 19th century bronze mounted Sèvres style cobalt blue porcelain vases and covers Each of baluster form with domed cover with pine cone finial, above a waist...

A fine pair of late 19th century gilt bronze mounted Sèvres style porcelain vase. The cobalt blue vases mounted with tied bronze drapes and handles. In late 1739-early 1740 th...

A fine, antique Royal Vienna porcelain cabinet vase entitled "Ustana." This cobalt blue ground vase has a finely painted central cart...

A beautiful antique Royal Vienna hand painted "Jeweled" porcelain portrait vase. The vase is painted with a portrait of a young lady wearing flowers in her hair. The iridescent red ...

Pair of exquisite 19th century Royal Vienna porcelain vases. A fine example of the Neo-Classical Austrian style, these vases are decorated with an ornate garden floral motif. Encrusted with sculptural bunches of pink and yellow roses, and painted with tiny bees, butterflies, and gold accents. The Royal Vienna mark (Bindenschild, or shield) appears on the base of each vase in blue. Each vase measures 7"H x 4"W x 4"D. History of The Royal Vienna Porcelain Factory: The Royal Vienna Porcelain factory was founded in 1717 by Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier...

This magnificent large Royal Vienna porcelain covered urn is Surmounted by domed cover with acorn finial and flanked by satyr mask handles, centered by a panel depicting scenes of th...

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

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...