Important Pair of Vienna Sorgenthal Porcelain Pedestals Bases

A fine quality pair of 19th century Vienna porcelain ewers, each with a burgundy and turquoise background with scrolling gilded decoration. The hand-painted inset panels depicting cl...

A Highly Important pair of Museum Quality Louis XV Period 18th century Meissen Porcelain filigree openwork vases with a medially of flowers and vined leaves. This is truly an excepti...

This very nice and decorative pair of important figures representing two women with birds is made of porcelain. There is a little damage on one of the birds. This is a French work. C...

A fine distinguished Vienna porcelain finely painted vase with two handles with a portrait of a young girl within a generous reserved gilded borders, on reverse, with birds and dolp...

This exquisite pair of antique Royal Vienna porcelain plates, measuring 9.5 inches in diameter, beautifully illustrates the "Labors of Cupid" theme. Each plate features finely hand-p...

A pair of large Royal Vienna gilt and painted porcelain ewers. Austrian, late 19th Century. 42.5cm high x 20cm wide x 17cm depth. This superb pair of large Royal Vienna gilt and...

A fine antique porcelain figurine. By the Royal Vienna Porcelain Manufactory. In the form of a seated girl bathing her feet with a water bowl resting next to her atop a plinth. Ma...

A pair of 19th century Louis XVI Style Royal Vienna Porcelain Iridescent pink vases with neoclassical scenes. Of rounded form these covered vases are spectacular. Each has a particul...

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...

A Pair of 19th Century Vienna Hand Painted Porcelain Portrait Plates Depicting Two Renaissance Women Austria, Circa 1890 Unmarke...