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...BERLIN Meissen brought porcelain to the market in 1708; this breakfast cup and saucer ($530) is its current...
...Hess says. “China was known as the bleeding bowl of Saxony, because Augustus the Strong, one of the administrators, spent so much of the state’s money on porcelain.” Thus, when the recipe for making porcelain was finally discovered in Meissen, Germany, the tiny porcelain figurines were quickly elevated to symbols of power and prestige in European courts.The speeches given at the symposium, which brought distinguished scholars of art and design from all over the nation to Harvard, focused on topics including the evolution of luxury items, from porcelain to purses...
These days, though, life is quieter. John has just renovated his home in Old Windsor. He gutted the building, filled the rooms with antiques, decked the walls with illustrations of naval battles, stocked the shelves with Meissen and Staffordshire. A gracious home for the Country Squire...
...harping on the investment value of art, by hiring personable young sales cadres to explain the significance of the Meissen jug or the not-quite-Rubens, by creating user-friendly expertise, the auctioneers defused this wariness. By the early '80s dealers were getting cut out of the game by collectors buying directly at auction. And by 1988, when the auction room had been promoted into a Reagan-decade cathouse of febrile extravagance, where people in black tie and jewels applauded winning bids as though they were arias sung by heroic tenors, private dealers (at least those dealing in the work...
...behind the Cathedral of Our Lady in Munich. "In former years," he confesses, "Americans were the main customers for those porcelain monsters-the huge vases and ornate groups and centerpieces, laced figurines and gilded plates. Now we sell those to the Near East. Americans know too well what Rosenthal, Meissen and Nymphenburg should look like. We still sell a good deal of kitsch, but Americans buy it now because it is amusing...