- Also known as
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Meissen Porcelain Factory
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primary name: Meissen Porcelain Factory
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other name: Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen GmbH
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other name: Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen
- Details
- organisation; manufacturer/factory; German
- Other dates
- 1710- (active)
- Address
- Talstrasse 9, D-01662 Meissen, Germany
- Biography
- Porcelain manufacturory. Located in the town of Meissen, near Dresden, in Saxony, it was the first hard-paste porcelain manufacturer in Europe, thanks to the 1708 discovery of the secret of porcelain by Johann Friedrich Böttger and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus. Products are still made by hand, ensuring that a high standard of quality is always achieved. In the early-twentieth century the factory introduced new patterns, in response to changing fashions, and began to commission designers to create new forms. The 'T glatt' service is one example of this practice.
- Bibliography
- Johannes Just, 'Meisser Jugendstil Porzellan' (1983); 'Meissener Konturen: Pozellane von Ludwig Zepner, Heinz Werner, Peter Strang, Rudi Stolle & Volkmar Bretscheider, 1960-1990' (1991); Hermann Jedding, 'Meissener Porzellan des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts' (Munich, 1981)
