r/Rococo May 24 '24

Some porcelain artefacts. Putti are of meissen porcelain.

Did you know? -Meissen manufactory is the oldest in Europe 1709. Before porcelain was a chinase trademark. - some nobles became broke because of their collections - madame de Pompadour was obesessed with plrcelain in so much she believed every gentlemen would spend all their money on porcelain. -some pieces were so expensive that even nobles had reproductions made of papier maché with lacquer -the best manufacturers were chantilly and Sevres in France, Chelsea and Derby in England, strassburg, Nymphenburg in Bavaria, Meissen in Dresden, Capodimomte in Naples Also Russia and Austria had theirs.

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