Over 45 color plates and 200 black-and-white photographs with identifying captions, as well as a catalogue of form and design, and makers’ marks highlight this early in-depth book on Meissen china.
MEISSEN PORCELAIN
by Otto Walcha, G.P. Putnams Sons, NY, 1981. “Originally published as
MEISSNER PORZELLAN
copyright 1973 by Verlag der Kunst Dresden.”
This massive comprehensive text covers by chapter: The Invention of European Porcelain; The Albrechtsburg Manufactory and Porcelain in the Bottger Period; The First Manufactory Reforms – 1719; Johann Gregorius Horoldt – The Early Days; The Development of Painting Under Horoldt and His Fellow Craftsmen; Porcelain Design from Irminger to Kaendler; The Year of Reform – 1731; The Great Period of Meissen Porcelain; The Domination of Form; The Manufactory Between the Silesian Wars; The Manufactory During the Seven Years’ War; The Manufactory After the State Reform of 1763; The Influence of Meissen Porcelain in the Eighteenth Century; Classicism and the Meissen Manufactory; Th Manufactory in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century; The Manufactory Moves to New Premises; The Meissen State Porcelain Manufactory 1918-1945; The Meissen Porcelain Manufactory I the Postwar Years; The VEB Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen; Plates; Notes; List of Illustrations; Chronology of the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory; Museums with Significant Collections of Old Meissen Porcelain; A Chronological Survey of Forms and Decorations of Meissen Ware; Meissen Marks; Glossary; Bibliography; and Index of Names. This scholarly survey of the development of Meissen porcelain and its evolution over the years is the standard reference on the subject, and an invaluable reference for the serious collector, dealer, or historian of antique European German Austrian porcelain.
Bible-thick / very heavy 9.9” x 12” hardback with dust cover in very good condition. 516 pages.
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