
Meissen Porcelain – Passionate Pursuit of Power and Prestige
Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony’s claim to fame rests on his being the founder of the first European factory at Meissen to produce porcelain in the west
Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony’s claim to fame rests on his being the founder of the first European factory at Meissen to produce porcelain in the west
Modernism in the United Kingdom was born out of reaction to high Victorian overstuffed interiors. There was a desire to return to a simpler time with honest methods of design and production, akin to those of medieval and religious guilds. William Morris and his colleagues Phillip Webb, Walter Crane, William…