Pirkenhammer Furniture

Made Březová near Karlovy Vary Re-polished Original Condition

A Very Fine and Impressive Bohemian 19th Century Vienna-Style Neoclassical Revival Style Pirkenhammer Porcelain Vase - Urn. The ovoid shaped finely painted all around body with allegorical scenes representing 'The Search for Love', with one side depicting a pensive maiden seated on a rock form by the seashore, the opposite side depicting a maiden, also seated by the seashore, being visited by a love-cupid (cherub or angel), flanked by a pair of finely detailed double-headed snake-form 24 carat gilt handles centered with mask terminals, raised on an attached circular gilt, cream and blue Celeste decorated plinth. Stamped with an underglaze black printed crossed hammers mark and further mark "O.P.C.N. / RAD" to the underside. The associated and later domed cobalt-blue, cream and gilt decorated porcelain cover-lid with a cream and gilt bud finial, not original to the vase. Signed "Al Eckardt". Circa: Bohemia, 1890-1894. The porcelain painter A. Louis Eckardt is mentioned by Waltraud Neuwirth, Porzellanmaler-Lexicon (1977), Vol. I, p.251 as working from the Prager Strasse in Dresden in 1894. The Bohemian Pirkenhammer factory was founded in 1803, and in the second half of the 19th century the factory was exporting to Vienna and London. The Prikenhammer marks on these vases show they were made after 1887, and it is therefore likely this vase can be dated between the time of the introduction of the mark for this Bohemian factory, and the time Eckhardt returned to Dresden in 1894. Eckhardt is also recorded as a painter of Berlin plaques. The Pirkenhammer porcelain factory was established in 1802 in Karlovy Vary using...

"Rare antique circa 1910-1923 painted and gilded porcelain figurine titled Blumenmädchen or Flower Girl by Pirkenhammer Kunst-Abteilung of Czecholslovaki (Bohemia). Marked Prof. W Gerstner and EFI, E. (Epiag) F. I. Mädchen mit Blumenkörben, Entwurf Prof. Wilhelm Gerstner, Fischer & Mieg, Pirkenhammer. ""Pirkenhammer is a porcelain manufactory started in 1803 by Friedrich Holke and Johann Gotlob List. The mark of the crossed hammers is the Pirkenhammer symbol. The factory was located in a Bohemian village Pirkenhammer (Czech Brezova) near Karlovy Vary also known as Karlsbad. Untill 1811 it operated as Friedrich Höcke manufactory. In 1811 new owners Johann Martin Fischer and Christopher Reichenbach renamed it as Fischer & Reichenbach. Martin Fischer was a merchant, while Reichenbach was the technical director of the company. Martin Fischer died in 1824. His widow Sophie Friederike started to run the business. In 1931 management of the factory was passed to Martin Fischer son, Christian.The company was recognised by a gold medal at the Vienna World fair in 1839. In 1852 Christian's daughter Wilhelmine married her cousin Ludwig von Mieg. The company was now Fischer & Mieg. The artist André Carriére began to influence Pirkenhammer's style from 1868 when he became chief designer and the company invested in a studio for him in Paris in 1874. He worked for the company till the early 20th century. Next owners from 1908 were Wilhelm & Viktor Maier...

Pair Pirkenhammer porcelain Aesthetic Gold Encrusted dragon vases, c 1880 Pair Pirkenhammer porcelain Aesthetic gold encrusted double handled footed vase, circa 1880. The central ...

Elka coffee and tea set designed by Jaroslav Jezek in 1957 Awarded by Grand Prix at the Expo 1958 Manufactured and marked by Brezova - Pirkenhammer 6 tea cups with plates 6 coffee cu...

A stylish Art Deco silver and white porcelain box in very good conditions. It has been designed and manufactured in the Thirties by Pirkenhammer, it's marked on the bottom. The box i...