AUGARTEN WIEN COCKATOO PORCELAIN  BIRDS   PAIR AUSTRIA

Lovely pair of   cockatoo   figurines made  by Augarten  during the 20th century. Very well modelled    showing all the details . Each bird is about  4-5 inches  tall  and about 5  inches  long/ Marked underneath  with  the blue  shield  with the crown  on top  as well  as  the word "Wien"  underneath  and words  "made in Austria".  Each bird is superbly modeled and hand painted to perfection!

 #1  Cockatoo painters number  is 28  painted in  brown made in  Austria  He  has a grey  beak, yellow crest  and is sitting on top of a  grey tree  branch The figure is marked underneath with the blue shield with the crown on top as well as the word Wien underneath

 #2    Cockatoo looking down- painters number is  embossed 66  and  82 painted in green Made in Austria. He is looking down and perched on top of a grey tree stump decorated with  green berries. Austria...Wien" with the blue   beehive mark and the impressed number 1599.  

Augarten Factory - Formerly the State Porcelain works in Vienna (closed 1864), the Wiener Porzellanfabrik Augarten was set up in 1922 as the successor to the former Imperial company. It makes figures and porcelain, mostly reproductions of earlier Vienna porcelain, and uses the banded shield or beehive mark with a crown and the words "Augarten Wien".

“Wien” translates as “Vienna”, the capital city of Austria. The porcelain factory at Augarten in Vienna has been in production for almost 300 years. Austria began producing porcelain under the grant of the Austrian royal family. Because of their imperial sponsorship, the factory has been referred to by some collectors as “Royal Vienna”. Porcelain produced by the "Vienna Imperial State Manufactory" began using the mark of the Striped Shield, the coat of arms of the Babenberg family. The shield is referred to as the “beehive” mark because it looks like and old fashioned European beehive with a crown, seen above left.