Art Nouveau Amphora Figurative Vase Center Bowl

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Austrian Amphora marked Ernst Wahliss. Two maidens seated atop and below a large shell with seaweed on the base. Highest … more Austrian Amphora marked Ernst Wahliss. Two maidens seated atop and below a large shell with seaweed on the base. Highest quality porcelain amphora. This piece is marked Ernst Wahliss on the bottom.

By the late 1880s, merchant Ernst Wahliss had established himself as Vienna's leading retailer in porcelain goods. In 1894, he purchased the Alfred Stellmacher factory in Turn-Teplitz, Bohemia, and began to produce decorative ceramics under the name Ernst Wahliss Kunst, Porzellan-und Fayence-Fabrik. By 1907 his son Gerhard Martin Wahliss owned the factory and continued to create a variety of functional and decorative items in earthenware and porcelain. less