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23 hours ago · From the May 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here.. The so-called golden age of Meissen, Europe’s first producer of porcelain, is closely associated with two names: Augustus II the Strong (1670–1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, and the court sculptor and master modeller Johann Joachim Kändler (1706–75).
5 days ago · Hedy Weiss, WTTW. April 26, 2024. It is a very good bet that you have never seen (and might never see) anything quite like Swedish-born choreographer Alexander Ekman’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” unless you were fortunate enough to see it at its North American premiere by the Joffrey Ballet in 2018.
1 day ago · The eclectic collector is invited to Dublin! Related Articles. Hundreds of Collectables Go Under the Hammer
2 days ago · By Anna Sansom, Sep 17, 2021 The Back Room The Back Room: Things Fall Apart ... The auction of Meissen objects restituted by the Rijksmuseum brought in $15 million, seven times the presale estimate.
7 hours ago · painted and encrusted with flowers, and standing on six short gilded feet, saucer, 12.5cm diameter, painted and impressed marks, a Dresden miniature baluster vase and cover, 20th century, painted with flowers, 6cm high, a similar period Dresden inkwell and cover, the integral base of shaped circula…
5 days ago · Meissen Porcelain; Royal Doulton Ceramics; Worcester Ceramics; Silver Mirrors; ... 37.5 cm high, together with a glazed potter figure of "Queen Maria Anna of Spain", ...
3 days ago · Maria Theresa with her family, 1754, by Martin van Meytens Childbearing. Maria Theresa gave birth to sixteen children in nineteen years from 1737 to 1756, thirteen of whom survived infancy, but only ten survived into adulthood. The first child, Maria Elisabeth (1737–1740), was born a little less than a year after the wedding.
