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Meissen porcelain long has been prized for its incredible quality and craftsmanship. Founded in 1710, Meissen is known as the first European manufacturer of the coveted hard-paste ...
A collection of 18-century Meissen porcelain restituted by the Dutch government to heirs of its original owners, Franz and Margarethe Oppenheimer, realized a total of US$15 million—nearly five ...
The year my late grandfather Henry H. Arnhold introduced me to The Great Bustard, the most prized object in his collection of Meissen porcelain, I started glassblowing.His mother had begun ...
This oval stand is from the Smithsonian’s Hans Syz Collection of Meissen Porcelain. Dr. Syz (1894-1991) began collecting in the early years of World War II, when he purchased eighteenth-century ...
A sale at Sotheby’s of nearly 120 lots of rare, early 18th-century Meissen porcelain smashed all expectations in a live auction at its New York saleroom this morning.
Meissen’s painters descend, stylistically, from Johann Gregor Höroldt, who arrived from Vienna in 1720 and spent several years experimenting to develop new enamel colours suited to firing.
DEAR HELAINE AND JOE: Perhaps you can identify these statues for us. We were told they were "Meissen" porcelain, but we have not been able to find ones with a similar mark on Google. We even ...
After 300 years crafting baroque porcelain for French kings and Russian tsars, Germany's Meissen has launched an in-house revolution to weather the economic downturn.
DEAR HELAINE AND JOE: Perhaps you can identify these statues for us. We were told they were "Meissen" porcelain, but we have not been able to find ones with a similar mark on Google. We even ...