The David Roche Foundation Adelaide, Gallery 2: Rococo
The Rococo style in Gallery 2 of the opening exhibition at the David Roche Foundation House Museum & Gallery complex, North Adelaide, is gracefully exuberant!
Meissen
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
The China Trade Begins – Precious Cargoes from Cathay
The first stirring of what we now know as the China Trade began when Europe was still emerging from the medieval period, and today it is still evolving
Chinoiserie – Pavilions, Porcelains and Passionate Pursuits
By the 18th century in Europe and England all things Chinese assumed incredible proportions as fashionable society sought to transmit their ideas about the magical land of Cathay