19th Century Pair of Vienna Porcelain Vases Purple Red Ground Green and Gold

A fine quality 19th century Royal Vienna hand painted porcelain covered Potpourri vase / urn. Constructed in three pieces with a lid and a se...

A Highly Important and Quite Spectacular Pair of 19th-Century Vienna Porcelain Hand-Painted and Gilt Vases. Each of baluster-form with flared necks and an octagonal stepped bases. T...

A very fine pair of late 19th century porcelain painted vases by Royal Vienna, with their superbly painted Kaufmann scenes in a deep red and green ground, they display the hallmarks ...

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...

An antique Royal Vienna lidded pate sur pate, paste on paste porcelain urn vase. The vase is adorned with an image of a Neoclassical medallion portrait of a woman surrounded by a gil...

A very good quality 19th century Vienna porcelain vase, depicting classical scenes and gilded borders.

19th Century Large Royal Vienna Porcelain Urn. Highly decorated Royal Vienna Gilt Porcelain urn. This circular urn with double-scrolled handles stands as two pieces on its original ...

A Large Pair of Vienna Style Porcelain Vases and Covers. Each of tapering baluster shape decorated with gilt flowers and anthemion against a claret and ivy green ground. The front w...

A Large Pair of French 19th Century Jacob Petit Porcelain Green-Ground Pot-Pourri Vases and Covers, Marked 'JP' on Bottom of Each. Each is of square form with a fantastic green ground. The covered vases are decorated with elaborate panels of village scenes, one either side of each vase, and also floral scenes independently to them. The vases are complete with pierced gilded relief frieze...

A very fine pair of Vienna cobalt blue porcelain covered urns with male mask handles. Each covered urns and covers; cobalt blue ground; loop handles terminating at classical male mas...