A Fine and Large Pair of Vienna Style Porcelain Vases

Description

A Fine and Large Pair of Vienna Style Porcelain Vases and Covers, on Stands.

Each of urn out-shape with loop handles. Each with cobalt blue-ground neck and cover with gilt-embossed decoration of scrolls above a body painted in the round with Greek philosophers and disciples after the painter Carl Rahl (Austrian, 1812-1865). Each on A cobalt blue-ground oval spreading socles and stands with roundels front and back finely painted with mythological scenes.

The first vase signed ‘F. Schulz’. Indistinct red painted titles to underside. Marked ‘Austria’ and Blue beehive mark.
The second vase signed ‘E. Forster’ and ‘A. Heer’. Indistinct red painted titles to underside and Blue beehive mark.

Austria-Hungary, Circa 1910.

The paintings to the body of each vase are of true virtuoso quality depicting classical philosophers and representations of the Sciences from the Greek ‘Golden Age’, after the Austrian painter and engraver Carl Rahl (1812-1865), the scenes adapted from Rahl’s famous murals in the portico of the central building of the University of Athens.