THE taste for china figurines, once the playthings of Europe ... One of the most successful, as the newly published catalogue of his Meissen china (Harvard University Press; $25) makes plain, ...

To porcelain-lovers the world over, Meissen china is incomparable ... it`s the perfect setting for its precious porcelain. Goblets, figurines, clocks, chess sets, tiles, urns, animal sculptures ...

Modelling their china on the blue and white glazes found in the porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, the Meissen painters created patterns ... The business expanded to include the production of figurines, ...

The exhibition, entitled The Splendor of Rococo: Meissen Porcelain Figurines by Johann Joachim Kaendler, opened on Friday and runs until September 29. The display, which is the first of its kind ...