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Feb 6, 2018 · From the iconic Scwhanenservice (Swan Service) designed for the company’s director in the late 1730s to the chocolate pot gifted to Queen Elizabeth II at the time of her wedding, Meissen porcelain has proven to be a perennial favorite.
William II, Margrave of Meissen. Wilhelm II, the Rich (23 April 1371 – 13 March 1425) was the second son of Margrave Frederick the Strict of Meissen and Catherine of Henneberg .
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Meissen Porcelain (Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen) is one of the preeminent porcelain factories in Europe and was the first to produce true porcelain outside of Asia. It was established in 1710 under the auspices of King Augustus II “the Strong” of Saxony-Poland (1670–1733), a keen collector of Asian ceramics, particularly Ming porcelain.
This twenty-two pieces of Meissen, blue and white porcelain tea set is in the "Vienna Woods" style. The set includes: reticulated fruit dish, six fruit plates, 4 demitasses and saucers, small teapot, cream pitcher, milk pitcher, two shallow leaf shaped bowls, shell dish, (1 3/4" diameter base) lobed box with cover.
The Margravate or Margraviate of Meissen ( German: Markgrafschaft Meißen) was a medieval principality in the area of the modern German state of Saxony. It originally was a frontier march of the Holy Roman Empire, created out of the vast Marca Geronis ( Saxon Eastern March) in 965.
The factory had hired the Dresden goldsmith Johann Jacob Irminger (German, 1635–1724) in 1710, who was cited as providing “the inventions and new designs” for the factory’s production. [7] . Irminger determined the decorative schemes of stoneware and then porcelain, and the factory’s style during these years derives largely from him.
During the tenth century, the Meissen margraves temporarily extended their territory into the Milceni lands up to the Kwisa ( Queis) river and the border with the Silesian region of the Early Polish state.
