Antique Fischer & Mieg Pirkenhammer Vase Hand Painted Porcelain Gold Gilt 12"

Antique Fischer & Mieg Company Pirkenhammer Vase Hand Painted Porcelain Gold Gilt 12" Artist Signed Great condition! No chips, cracks, or crazing. Paint, including gold gilt along the top edge, is intact. A stunning slightly tapered vase hand painted with a multi-toned green background and flowers (irises?) in pink, purple and white. Signed by the artist, E.F. Rhamstine. Marked on the bottom with green crossed hammers and "Austria". Pirkenhammer used the green crossed hammers mark from 1873 to 1918. Measures approximately 3" long and wide at the bottom, 4" at the top, and 12" tall. Pirkenhammer is a porcelain manufactory started in 1803 by Friedrich Holke and J. G. List. The factory was located in a Bohemian village Pirkenhammer, Bohemia (now Czechoslovakia). The company would be renamed Fischer & Reichenbach in 1811, and Fischer & Mieg Company in 1852.