Austrian "Heron and Frog" Porcelain Vase by Ernst Wahliss, circa 1899-1900

A stunning Art Nouveau Austrian twin handled porcelain lidded vase decorated with the portrait of a winged putti by renowned Austrian ceramicist Ernst Wahliss (Austrian, 1837-1900) a...

This stunning vase was made by Thurn Teplitz Porcelain, with support from designer Ernst Wahliss (1837 - 1900). The vase is in amphora shape, hand painted and has the early mark on the underside. The porcelain vase is ivory colored with light green and brown painting...

A stunning Turn Wein Austrian art nouveau figural vase formed as a lily by renowned ceramicist Ernst Wahliss (Austrian, 1837-1900) dating from around 1900. The tall and elegant porce...

A large and very unusual Austrian Royal Vienna Art Nouveau vase raised on three legs hand painted with autumnal fruiting stems made at the Alexandra Porcelain Works in Turn by Ernst ...

Antique Art Nouveau figural Nymph on gourd porcelain vase by Ernst Wahliss, circa early 1900s. This beautiful large piece made in Austria is in very good vintage condition with no ch...

Continental German (19/20th Cent) blue porcelain square shaped vase with floral and heron design (impressed on base: Sarreguemines)

Ceramic vase signed Ernst Wahliss, Vienna, Art Nouveau period, circa 1890.

A beautiful Art Nouveau glazed earthenware spill vase modelled with a figure of a young beauty standing drinking from a shell with a toga loosely draped over her body with excellent ...

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...

Beautiful porcelain work by Ernst Wahliss, depicting a mother with child, probably Aphrodite with armor, made by Royal Vienna around 1900 in Austria. This exceptionally rare work is...