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| #1901181 in Books | 2008-01-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 11.33 x1.22 x9.76l,4.77 | File Name: 0300126816 | 400 pages
||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| specialist publication|By Ivor E. Zetler|This handsome book concentrates on the gift giving habits of the princes of Saxony. It was common practice for royaly to bestow gifts to foreign courts with the aim of gaining favour and influence. Meissen porcelain, after its initial manufacture in 1710, was highly prized and fabulously expensive. It thus served as a highly desirable g|About the Author||Maureen Cassidy Geiger is an independent scholar and curator of the Arnhold Collection, the most valuable private collection of Meissen in the world. She is also guest curator of decorative arts, the Frick Collection, New York City.
While imported Chinese porcelain had become a valuable commodity in Europe in the seventeenth century, local attempts to produce porcelain long remained unsuccessful. At last the secret of hard-paste porcelain was uncovered, and in 1710 the first European porcelain was manufactured in Saxony. Meissen porcelain, still manufactured today, soon ranked in value with silver and gold.
This thorough and lavishly illustrated volume explores the early ...
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