Superb Art Deco Augarten Porcelain Figurine Vanity Lady Monkey Vally Wieselthier

  

From a beautiful collection of porcelain at. Vanity' Lady with Monkey, a rare Art Deco figure designed by Vally Wieselthier and made by the porcelain factory Augarten in Vienna.

A lithe young lady in pose wearing a tight-fitting carelessly held together costume and cake hat, a grinning monkey nestling against her feet. On a flat oval base. She ran her own ceramic workshop producing designs for the Wiener Werstatte, Goldscheider and the newly founded Augarten porcelain factory. The piece is marked on the base with the underglaze blue shield mark Wein Augarten Vienna Handpainted, painters number 234 and impressed model number 1517. Condition: Excellent, no damages to the porcelain, checked with UV light.

Coscombe Fine Porcelain started as a private collection of figurines from the top porcelain houses in Denmark and Germany. Now 30 years on we have a large collection of rare late nineteenth and twentieth century ceramics from the principle sculptors and artists of their time in Europe. Our offices are based in a lovely old barn conversion near the North Cotswold village of Chipping Campden where every figurine is professionally cleaned and checked under UV light so an accurate condition report can be established before individual items are added to the website. If you wish to come and meet us we exhibit at the Antiques for everyone Spring, Summer and Winter fairs at the NEC Birmingham, the largest vetted art fair outside of London.