Amazing MEISSEN Pendule with Putto, 19th century - $4,950 - (Broomall, PA)
Welcome to Latelier Salon Art Gallery Amazing MEISSEN Pendule with Putto, 19th centuryDesigned by Michel Victor Acier c. 1770, allegory of the "fine arts", reading putto leaning on ceiling cover on clock, on his lap an open book, rectangular pedestal on 4 feet with lateral relief decoration, polychrome staffage, clock (not original): brass Dial with Roman numerals, battery-operated, model no. D 78, underglaze blue sword mark, restored (body of the putto, book and cover revised), fire cracks (case and base), signs of age, h 23 cm. Porcelain Manufactory MeissenPorcelain has been known in Europe since the 13th century, but always had to be imported from China. Thus it was mostly of lower quality – the Chinese rarely gave their best ware to the foreigners – and extremely expensive. As demand for porcelain became greater, European alchemists tried to discover the formula to create hard-paste porcelain. The production of the first European hard-paste porcelain was the result of a collaboration between the alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger and the scientist Ehrenfried Walther Graf von Tschirnhaus at the court of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, in Dresden. As a matter of fact, it was finally achieved for the first time in Europe in 1708 to produce a white hard paste porcelain and in 1710 Augustus established Europe’s first hard-paste porcelain factory in the Albrechtsburg, a palace in Meissen. The so-called ‘Böttgerporzellan’ actually had more of a stoneware quality and it was not until the year 1713 that white porcelain was available for purchase. Initially unmarked, the motif of the ‘crossed swords’ was developed in the early 1720s and used from 1723 onwards. Since then, beautifully modelled and painted figures and table services were produced at Meissen, establishing its reputation as the pre-eminent porcelain factory in Europe. Outstanding potters, modelers and painters, e.g. Johann Joachim Kändler (1706-1775), Johann Gottlieb Klinger (1701-…
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