Innovative porcelain factory founded 1719 which produced hard-paste porcelain soon after meissen. Early pieces are high baroque with painted chinoiserie, flower or landscape decoration. In 1744 the factory was taken over by the state and produced Meissen-style rococo figures and tableware. In the late 18thC Vienna produced simple, neoclassical pieces with gilding and landscapes and portraits painted in panels on a brilliantly coloured ground, and Classical figures in biscuit porcelain. The factory began to decline from the late 1820s, finally closing in 1864. Throughout the 19thC the Vienna shield mark was much used by other factories and decorating workshops copying the Vienna style, hence the widespread use of inverted commas - 'Vienna' - to denote the origin of such pieces in cataloguing.