BORDENTOWN CITY-- When the U.S. operations of M.I. Hummel Co. were liquidated, an air of uncertainty swept the collectors' world about what lay ahead for the German porcelain figurines.

Meissen is German manufacturer credited with pioneering hard-paste porcelain in Europe ... The business expanded to include the production of figurines, large-scale animals, watches, and tableware, ...

Small figurines of 18th-century people. Elaborate bowls. Onion-pattern dishes. These are all antiques that make collectors hope that they have a piece of very old Meissen porcelain. Sometimes it ...

Goebel Porzellanfabrik, a local porcelain fabrication company ... saw huge potential in handcrafting high-quality figurines and made an agreement with the convent to do so. Hummel retained ...

Pop into any antique store in the country and you’ll likely find at least one porcelain doll sitting on a shelf (probably next to the vintage figurines). But how much are these delicate dolls worth?

“Porcelain is for the refined, for the ruling class, with all of its power and privilege,” La Force explains. “This level of materialism, after all, is never about necessity.” A German ...

FRANKFURT, June 29 (Reuters) - For family-owned German porcelain maker Kahla the recent cuts in Russian natural gas supply to Germany and high energy prices due to the Ukraine war pose a looming ...