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Price on eBay: $8,500 Porcelain dolls don’t have to be more than 2 feet tall to be worth a lot of money. This little lady stands only 15 1/2 inches tall, but her ornate details and impressive ...
Thun 1794 (official name Thun 1794 a.s.) was a German and Czech porcelain manufacturer using the porcelain mark "TK". Originally founded in 1793/1794 as Thun'sche Porcellanfabrik and, after many restructurings, finally closed in 2024 after 230 years, [1] [2] it was the oldest and largest Czech porcelain manufacturer.
The site was chosen for the museum because in 1794, the third oldest and second then-still active porcelain factory in the Czech Republic, Thun porcelain factory (closed in 2024), [1] [2] was established here. The interior was restored in 1950–1952. The museum contains around 12,000 exhibits.
The new owners returned the name of the founder to the factory and today it is called Rudolf Kämpf and produces handmade porcelain under 3 trademarks: Rudolf Kämpf: premium-class porcelain; Leander: mass-market porcelain; Leander HoReCa: porcelain for hotels, restaurants and the service industry; Rudolf Kämpf mainly produces porcelain. [4]
Books and price guides have been published about Hummel figurines. [15] Some of these works supported the secondary market interest of collector speculators; The Official M.I. Hummel Price Guide: Figurines and Plates, 2nd Edition, by Heidi Ann Von Recklinghausen is a current price guide, published in 2013.
3-part vase, c. 1875-90, Carl Thieme, porcelain, Honolulu Museum of Art. Following a collapse of the entire industry in the 1990s, the slowly recovering production trends towards figures such as dancers or bird figures, mainly in the Baroque and Rococo styles. [1] Today the porcelain works draw on a decor fund of hundreds of different styles ...
Julius Dressler was a noted Bohemian ceramics manufacturing company that operated from the late 19th century until the end of World War II.. Founded by Julius Dressler in the 1880s in Biela, part of (Tetschen-)Bodenbach in Northern Bohemia, the company produced high-quality decorative faience, maiolica, and porcelain ware. [1]
Although the porcelain manufactory was not profitable and relied on Charles Eugene's patronage, by the early 1760s it produced a large variety of high quality porcelain wares based on the duke's tastes. Most of the dancer figurines were modelled by Joseph Nees, from 1760 to 1763, and are notable for their capturing the movement of a dance. [10]