Lovely Augarten Wein Floral Vase

A lovely Augarten Wein “Floral Vase” signed as shown and stands at 4 inches tall and 3.5 inches diameter, in good condition. Great example of the Austrian Porcelain.

Wien is Austrian for “Vienna,” and there are at least two porcelain companies sometimes known simply as Wien. This web site will address two: Augarten Wien and Wien Keram “Wien” translates as “Vienna”, the capital city of Austria. The porcelain factory at Augarten in Vienna has been in production for almost 300 years. Austria began producing porcelain under the grant of the Austrian royal family. Because of their imperial sponsorship, the factory has been referred to by some collectors as “Royal Vienna”. Porcelain produced by the “Vienna Imperial State Manufactory” began using the mark of the Striped Shield, the coat of arms of the Babenberg family. The shield is referred to as the “beehive” mark because it looks like and old fashioned European beehive with a crown, seen above left.

The factory was nationalized but is still located in the Augarten Palace, a former imperial hunting lodge. The Augarten Wien factory conducts tours and sells its production at their gift shop and through dealers worldwide. Augarten Wien produced several horse figurines sculpted by Professor Albin Dobrich (the Spanish Riding School series), Karin Jarl-Sakellarios (rearing Lipizzaner), Robert Ullman (Wild Defiance, Shying Horse, fighting stallions), and Professor Herbert Schwaz (rearing Arabian).

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