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2. Meissen porcelain - Wikipedia

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   Meissen porcelain or Meissen china was the first European hard-paste porcelain. Early experiments were done in 1708 by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus . After his death that October, Johann Friedrich Böttger continued von Tschirnhaus's work and brought this type of porcelain to the market, financed by Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and ...

3. Swan Service - Wikipedia

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   The Swan Service (German: Schwanenservice, Polish: Serwis łabędzi) is a large service of baroque Meissen porcelain which was made for the First Minister of the Electorate of Saxony and favourite of king Augustus III of Poland, Heinrich von Brühl. Augustus had made Brühl the Supervisor of the Meissen works in 1733, then in August 1739 its ...

4. List of German inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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   1708: Meissen porcelain, the first European hard-paste porcelain, by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus in Meissen [65] 1810: Theory of Colours by Johann Wolfgang Goethe [66] 1864: Wothlytype uranium-based photographic printing process [67] [68] Early 1900s: The modernist movement Expressionism [69] 1919: Bauhaus by Walter Gropius [70]

5. The Priceless Wisdom of Meissen Porcelain - AOL

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   Meissen, the finest porcelain in the world, teaches that art is about conversations across eras and cultures that enable new creations to spring from the old. The Priceless Wisdom of Meissen Porcelain

6. Johann Gregor Herold - Wikipedia

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   Meissen Sake bottle vase, painted by Herold, 1725. Johann Gregor Herold or Johann Gregorius Höroldt (6 August 1696, in Jena – 26 January 1775, in Meissen) was a German painter and porcelain painter. He was a key early figure in defining the styles of decoration for Meissen porcelain from 1723 onwards. [1]

7. Möllendorff Dinner Service - Wikipedia

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   The Möllendorff Dinner Service of Meissen porcelain was designed in about 1762 by Frederick II the Great, King of Prussia (1712–86), in collaboration with Karl Jacob Christian Klipfel, a Meissen artist and musician. Some of the figures were modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler (1706–75). The factory's renown was in great part due to the ...