In many ways, every piece of pottery or porcelain ... vice president of European Decorative Arts and Silver for Skinner Inc, an auction house for fine art and antiques. "The mark is secondary ...

Information or research assistance regarding porcelain and pottery marks is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following information has been prepared to assist those ...

The mark's history starts with the Imperial ... It was the second manufactory, after Meissen, to produce porcelain in Europe. Emperor Karl VI granted du Paquier the exclusive right to create ...

Casey, Elizabeth Temple. The Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection of European Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century. Providence: Rhode Island School of Design, 1965. Chaffers, Wm. Marks and Monograms ...

The first European porcelain factory was established in Saxony in 1710 after kaolin was discovered nearby. The first porcelain with the Limoges mark was produced in 1771. Limoges had all the ...

Although he has the face of a European aristocrat, Attila Keczer works for a living — painting birds, flowers and fishnet patterns on Herend porcelain. Herend, a Hungarian company founded in ...

Since 1722 the blue crossed swords mark every piece of porcelain ... was established by King Augustus the Strong in 1710, Europe's first porcelain manufactory has evolved into an international ...

The man most often credited as the original creator of European porcelain was a German by the name of Johann Friedrich Böttger. He was an alchemist—he said that he knew how to turn lead into gold.

In the 17th and 18th century, with increasing trade between China and Europe, demand for China's porcelain rose sharply. Though Chinese porcelain was traded in smaller quantities than spices ...

The first porcelain dinner service produced in Europe, made in Meissen in 1729, was decorated with tigers and bamboo. As knowledge of the art of making porcelain spread across Europe, the science ...