Meissen is German manufacturer credited with pioneering hard-paste porcelain in Europe. Established by Johann Friedrich Böttger in Meissen, Germany in 1710, the company first began producing red ...

Information about the collection or items in it can be found in the following works: Gardner, Paul Vickers. Meissen and Other German Porcelain in the Alfred Duane Pell Collection. Washington, DC: ...

From favorite bowls to beloved figurines to heirloom ceramics, heck, even the kitchen sink, porcelain is part of many a ...

A Meissen porcelain lobed dessert-plate of Earl of Jersey type. Picture: Roseberys/PA Wire Morley-Fletcher was appointed head of Christie's European ceramics department at the age of 29 and spent ...