Ernst Wahliss Large Rare Antique Chariot Of Mars & Venus, Cupid’s, Horse, Plate for Sale

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Ernst Wahliss Large Rare Antique Chariot Of Mars & Venus, Cupid’s, Horse, Plate For Sale

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Ernst Wahliss Large Rare Antique Chariot Of Mars & Venus, Cupid’s, Horse, Plate:
$3000.00

Very Rare Large Antique Mythological

Chariot Of Mars And Venus in clouds and on earth surrounded by Cupid’s, playing with a Horse, Hand Painted Blue Gilt Porcelain Charger Serving Platter by Ernst Wahliss Art 16" x 10 3/8".

A magnificent work of art with gold embellishments, vibrant blue colour and a spectacular scene, as shown.

It will be carefully packed in an oversized box to ensure a safe delivery.

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Ernst Wahliss was an Austrian ceramicist who created ornate porcelain and earthenware vessels for European elites. Also known for his small-scale sculptures, the artist often depicted Baroque-era women dressed in opulent clothing. For example, in his piece Damenbüste (1837–1900) the artist sculpted a women dressed in an extravagant headpiece and a silken gown.

Born on March 1, 1837 in Oschatz in the Kingdom of Saxony, Wahliss began his pottery career as the traveling salesman for a porcelain factory at age 30. He later left to found his own ceramics company, and soon began exporting porcelain goods across Europe.

To meet the high demand for his pottery and sculptures, the artist opened his own department store, Wahliss, in Vienna’s city center.

By the late 1880s, merchant Ernst Wahliss had established himself as Vienna’s leading retailer in porcelain and ceramic goods. He had run a ceramic store in Vienna since 1863, whose rapid international success enabled him to open stores in major European cities such as London and to supply many of the European royal families in ceramics of the highest quality.

In 1894, Ernst Wahliss purchased the Alfred Stellmacher factory in Turn-Teplitz, Bohemia (in today’s Czech Republic), and began to produce decorative ceramics under the name “Ernst Wahliss Kunst, Porzellan und Fayence Fabrik.”

After Ernst’s death in 1900, his son Gerhard Martin Wahliss acquired the factory in 1907 and continued to create a variety of functional and decorative items in earthenware and porcelain. The Serapis-Wahliss line, introduced in 1911, was made of ne white earthenware and decorated with geometrically stylized natural forms such as blossoms and peacock feathers. Hand painted with richly colored enamels, such decors represented the vanguard in Austrian ceramics at the time. Designers like Karl Klaus, who had studied with Josef Hoffmann, brought a rare delicacy and urban sophistication to Wahliss’s aesthetic blueprint.

Near the end of his career, he abandoned his design work to move to the rural town of Velden, where he opened a luxury hotel.

Wahliss died on July 18, 1900 in Vienna, Austria. His works can be found in the collections of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and the Museum of New Zealand in Wellington, among others.