Interpretation
Meissen porcelain is best known for being the first hard-paste porcelain manufactured in Europe, centuries after the technique was mastered in China and Japan. Early experiments began in 1708, and by 1710 the first works were being brought on the market, financed by Augustus the Strong, the king of Poland and elector of Saxony. The Meissen manufactory initially held a monopoly in Europe, guarding the secret of its fabrication jealously and forging signature styles that relate it strongly to the European Rococo and to experiments in representing the natural and built landscape. The landscape scenes on these two covered pots relate them strongly to progressive notions of landscape in the fine arts of the time.
Information
- Title
- Covered pots
- Object Number
- 2019-468 a-b, 2019-469 a-b
- Medium
- Ceramic
- Dates
- ca. 1890–1910
- Dimensions
- h (each). 17.1 cm (6 3/4 in.)
- Credit Line
- [Bequest of Duane E. Wilder, Class of 1951]
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