Teapot
Medium
Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gilding
Dimensions
12 × 17 × 12 cm (4 11/16 × 6 11/16 × 4 11/16 in.)
Classification
teapot
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
117267
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The Meissen Porcelain Manufactory was established in 1710 at Meissen, near Dresden in Germany. It was the first European factory to succeed in making hard-paste porcelain like that imported from China and Japan. From the 1720s, the chief painter at Meissen was Johann Gregorius Höroldt (1696–1775), who developed techniques to make the porcelain ground whiter, to better show off the range of enamel colors he introduced: greens, yellow, purples, and browns. 18th-century Europeans loved porcelain n...
About the Artist
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
The Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, established on June 6, 1710, by Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, in the Albrechtsburg castle at Meissen near Dresden, marked Europe's breakthrough in producing true hard-paste porcelain. Building on experiments by physicist Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger, who perfected the formula using local...