Article Archive 2009
Room of a Thousand Porcelains
Teeming with more than one thousand magnificent European and Asian pieces, the Seattle Art Museum's Porcelain Room, which opened in May 2007, was conceived to blend visual excitement and a sense of wonder with an historical concept. The lion's share of porcelain on display here is eighteenth-century European, combined with eighty-seven Chinese porcelains and thirty-nine of Japanese origin...
05 October, 2009
The Meissen Porcelains of the Bavarian Electors - Highlights from the historical collection in Munich
The prince electors´ art collection of the Wittelsbach family in Bavaria can no longer be displayed as a complete historic collection. In the mid-nineteenth century...
22 May, 2009
English Ceramics in National Trust Houses
There are some 84 houses which have ceramic contents, most of which include something of interest to a wide range of collectors. Put altogether we would have a collection which would rival most international museums...
22 May, 2009
The Tracy Mug: Porcelain, Iconography and City Politics in Dr Wall’s Worcester
One of the most intriguing exhibits in the 18th century gallery of the Museum ofWorcester Porcelain is the so-called Tracy Mug, commemorating the famous election victory by Robert Tracy in the city ofWorcester in 1747/48...
22 May, 2009
Interior Decoration and War Trophies – the Porcelain Table Services of Frederick the Great of Prussia
In 1740 Frederick the Great inherited the Prussian royal throne from his father, becoming king of an established, quite wealthy middle sized country among the states forming the Holy Roman Empire. Trade and handycraft were welldeveloped...
22 May, 2009