A Pair of Vienna Porcelain Exhibition Vases

An Important and Extremely Large Pair of Magenta Ground Vienna Porcelain Exhibition Vases.   

The 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.

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