Early Meissen porcelain was sought after for this purpose, and wealthy patrons of local enameling and gilding workshops purchased undecorated porcelain, often of out-moded or inferior quality, which ...

In contrast, the Meissen manufactory, established in 1710 in the town of Meissen in Saxony, eastern Germany, was the first in Europe to produce true hard-paste porcelain.

Meissen was renowned for its exceptional quality porcelain and remains active today as the Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen GmbH in Meissen, Saxony, Germany.

The potter of porcelain mania How the sculptor Johann Joachim Kändler made porcelain an object of desire across 18th-century Europe.

Under-the-radar porcelain virtuoso Vladimir Kanevsky is having a star turn at the Frick Collection in New York.

A regional Australian gallery isn't the first place you'd expect to find a neo-baroque masterpiece that belonged to a Russian tsar. Yet, with some mystery surrounding it, that's just what's happened.

Meissen is German manufacturer credited with pioneering hard-paste porcelain in Europe. View Meissen (Co.)’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, ...

An exceptional exhibition of Meissen porcelain sculptures is now on display at the Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków, southern Poland.

SAGA -- Two centuries-old Imari ware bowls in southwestern Japan's Saga Prefecture once belonged to a set of 13 items that were exported to Germany du ...

Watch Stuart Slavid's appraisal of Meissen porcelain pug dogs, ca. 1880, in Wags to Riches. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines.