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Edouard Pollack was active as a painter at Vienna 1825-1864. He succeeded Joseph Nigg as obermaler in 1837. Cf. Wilhelm Mrazek and Watraud Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864
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A VIENNA TWO-HANDLED GOLD-GROUND VASE AND COVER
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1804, BLUE BEEHIVE AND DATE CODE FOR 1804, SIGNED E. POLLACK
With berried finial, domed cover and open C-scroll handles, the neck with chestnut coloured gadroons edged with gilt and lavender beneath a pale-green band, the vase painted in colours with a scene of Venus and Aeneas and Philemon and Baucis, named on the base, within oval reserves flanked by colourful scrolling foliage above a band of leaf-tips and square base (finial restuck, slight wear to gilding on one side) --14¾in. (36.5cm.) high
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1804, BLUE BEEHIVE AND DATE CODE FOR 1804, SIGNED E. POLLACK
With berried finial, domed cover and open C-scroll handles, the neck with chestnut coloured gadroons edged with gilt and lavender beneath a pale-green band, the vase painted in colours with a scene of Venus and Aeneas and Philemon and Baucis, named on the base, within oval reserves flanked by colourful scrolling foliage above a band of leaf-tips and square base (finial restuck, slight wear to gilding on one side) --14¾in. (36.5cm.) high