DOI issue:
Studio-Talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43451#0087
Studio-Talk
PORCELAIN FIGURE FROM THE ROYAL SAXON PORCELAIN
FACTORY' AT MEISSEN
stimulus came from Denmark ; on the contrary, the
beautiful Heron service with which Krohn in-
augurated a new epoch at Bing and Grondal’s Copen-
hagen factory closely followed in form the greatly
admired Swan service which Handler designed for
Count Briihl. And before their complete adoption of
under-glaze painting, the Meissen factory had revived
this branch with a series of figures in the costumes of
the people; these were exhibited at Munich in 1888,
but the artistic effect was not equal to the technical
ability displayed in them. Use was made not only
of under-glaze colours, but of coloured masses of
substance, and it is just in this use of paste-paint-
ing that lurks the temptation to emphasise the
pictorial at the expense of the decorative. In the
meantime the factory has brought its “ sharp fire ”
palette to perfection, and after many failures the
right artists and modellers have been found. In
so far as figures are concerned it can add its
modern productions to the series of those which
made it famous in its early days without a shadow
of fear, that the name “ Meissen Porcelain ” will
arouse merely the remembrance of an historic
tradition. A. K.
HEIDELBERG.—During the summer
months an interesting exhibition of
Frankenthal porcelain has been held
here in the upper rooms of the building
containing the Municipal Collections. Collectors
have of late paid considerable attention to the ware
life; it has, so to speak,
too festal a character for a
modern work-loving
country. In Germany, so
far as tableware is con-
cerned, material is preferred
to decoration, which is held
in restraint as much as
possible. The Meissen
factory has therefore done
well to revive in its
modern practice one of the
traditions which made it
famous in its early days—
the production of figures
and groups, which com-
mand so much esteem in
the German household.
It cannot be said that in
this branch of work the
PORCELAIN FIGURE FROM TIIE ROYAL PORCELAIN FACTORY AT MEISSEN
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PORCELAIN FIGURE FROM THE ROYAL SAXON PORCELAIN
FACTORY' AT MEISSEN
stimulus came from Denmark ; on the contrary, the
beautiful Heron service with which Krohn in-
augurated a new epoch at Bing and Grondal’s Copen-
hagen factory closely followed in form the greatly
admired Swan service which Handler designed for
Count Briihl. And before their complete adoption of
under-glaze painting, the Meissen factory had revived
this branch with a series of figures in the costumes of
the people; these were exhibited at Munich in 1888,
but the artistic effect was not equal to the technical
ability displayed in them. Use was made not only
of under-glaze colours, but of coloured masses of
substance, and it is just in this use of paste-paint-
ing that lurks the temptation to emphasise the
pictorial at the expense of the decorative. In the
meantime the factory has brought its “ sharp fire ”
palette to perfection, and after many failures the
right artists and modellers have been found. In
so far as figures are concerned it can add its
modern productions to the series of those which
made it famous in its early days without a shadow
of fear, that the name “ Meissen Porcelain ” will
arouse merely the remembrance of an historic
tradition. A. K.
HEIDELBERG.—During the summer
months an interesting exhibition of
Frankenthal porcelain has been held
here in the upper rooms of the building
containing the Municipal Collections. Collectors
have of late paid considerable attention to the ware
life; it has, so to speak,
too festal a character for a
modern work-loving
country. In Germany, so
far as tableware is con-
cerned, material is preferred
to decoration, which is held
in restraint as much as
possible. The Meissen
factory has therefore done
well to revive in its
modern practice one of the
traditions which made it
famous in its early days—
the production of figures
and groups, which com-
mand so much esteem in
the German household.
It cannot be said that in
this branch of work the
PORCELAIN FIGURE FROM TIIE ROYAL PORCELAIN FACTORY AT MEISSEN
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