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NEW YORK – Capodimonte porcelain was born of secrecy, love and passion. In 1738, the height of the porcelain craze, Bourbon King Charles VII of Naples and Sicily wed Maria Amalia of Saxony, whose grandfather founded Meissen, the first hard paste porcelain factory in Europe. Its secret formula replicated the strength, fragility, translucence and heat-resistance […]
The Royal Saxon Porcelain Works in Meissen, Saxony (Germany) opened in 1710. Whether Johann Friedrich Böttger, its first director, deserves credit for being the first European to develop the formula for hard paste porcelain – long known in China – is open to debate. Certainly the Meissen factory was the first to produce porcelain […]
DETROIT (AP) – A new museum exhibit in Detroit tells the story of how hot coffee, tea and chocolate beverages became popular in the 200 years or so following their introduction as commercial products in the 16th and 17th centuries.
LONDON – Readers of this column are unlikely ever to be been clobbered and skinned, but anyone who collects early porcelain might well have been fleeced. Don’t worry if this sounds meaningless, read on and all will become clear. First, a couple of definitions. If porcelain is said to have been “clobbered,” it means the […]