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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.
A show at the Met offers a feminist revision of Chinoiserie, a decorative style that swept through Europe in the age of ...
Family heirlooms traced by the late Antiques Roadshow expert ... mentioned in Morley-Fletcher’s book, Meissen Porcelain In Colour, is also in the sale. The plate, from 1735, is painted with two ...
Originally based on a Meissen porcelain figurine, Koons’ work transforms the classical subject with a playful, almost kitsch aesthetic that contrasts sharply with Picasso’s more introspective ...
From favorite bowls to beloved figurines to heirloom ceramics ... but it took them until the 18th century to figure out how. Europe's first porcelain factory was founded in Meissen, Germany in 1710.