DESCRIPTION: Here is a superb late 19th century Neoclassical style signed Ernst Wahliss highly decorative porcelain sauce boat on an integral base and on a Fischer & Mieg Pirkenhammer blank. The sauce boat is hand decorated with a colourful fish in a body of water with brown and raised gilt rocks in between. There are four colouful (blue, red, pink and mauve)butterflies and a dragonfly with various raise gilt grasses and dots above the fish on the integral base.  The hand painted decoration also includes  some enamelling. The  curved handle has a gilt decorated face mask. The decoration is a mixture of hand painting, enameling, flat and raised gilding. The sauce boat is marked to the base on one end with an impressed F & M for Fischer & Mieg used from 1860, a green Pirkenhammer green back stamp used from 1890 and to the center of the underside under the glaze is a faint script mark Ernst Wahliss, Wien, Made in Austria. Dates from 1890 to circa 1900.

SIZE:  The sauce boat measures 7 inches high 9 inches long and 6 1/2 inches wide. Weighs 780 g before packing.

CONDITION:   Two of the raised gilt rocks are missing one on each side of the sauce boat of which you can see in picture 1 & 3. Otherwise in very good condition with no chips, cracks or restoration.

SHIPPING:   UK From £6.16 via Ebay shipping program. 

GERMANY: £25.00   ASIA and AUSTRALIA : £60.00 All other countries including America please contact me for a shipping quote. All shipping includes tracked delivery.

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