The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg like other museums around the world houses great collections paintings and works of art. Its Meissen Porcelain room albeit rather small when compared to other major International museums even so the pieces of display are still exceptional and rare. Within several large display cases is seen a period beginning
Museums can only accumulate their vast collections by way of donations from collectors who bequeath them upon their deaths or at an earlier period. Taking on board the idea that the Manager of the modelling department at Meissen from 1730 to his death in 1777 Johann Kandler purportedly was responsible to have modelled more than
The Victoria and Albert Museum is an ideal location to get an education when it comes to learning about world ceramics arguably the world’s largest selection, more so than any other museum. Only a fraction is on display at any one time but always a strong section of Meissen Porcelain dating from the very earliest
A Rare Meissen Armorial Wine Glass Holder Armorial’s are arms belonging to aristocratic families that ordered Meissen to make services for them bearing the arms of their ancestry. These armorial pieces originate circa 1740’s. Armorials are found on every type of service wares such as tea bowls and cups and saucers, plates, coffee and teapots,
This pair of Meissen Pagoda Figures; also known as Nodders. These Nodding figures are the most unusual types of figures in which they have articulated hands and head. Each moveable part is attached to a lead weight that acts as a pendulum. While originally made by Kaendler hardly any of the models exist. There are