Felbrigg's Folly: Meissen porcelain temples for the dessert table

Patricia F. Ferguson

Elaborate porcelain temples were often used as centrepieces on the dessert table of Royal European weddings, such as the celebrated 'Temple of Fame' (Ehrentempel), 1750, now in the Porzellansammlung, in Dresden, which has a fascinating English provenance. This talk surveys many of these triumphal temples and their surprising later histories.  

Haughton International Ceramics Seminar 2017 at Christie's