A collection of 18-century Meissen porcelain restituted by the Dutch government to heirs of its original owners, Franz and Margarethe Oppenheimer, realized a total of US$15 million—nearly five ...

The factory was built in Meissen, Germany, in 1710. It made stoneware, porcelain and other ceramics ... $150. • Donald Duck ring with Kellogg's Pep magnet, white plastic, Donald with box ...

A sale at Sotheby’s of nearly 120 lots of rare, early 18th-century Meissen porcelain smashed all expectations in a live auction at its New York saleroom this morning. Porcelain objects from the ...

The service’s decoration has been hailed as the 'very, very best' Meissen porcelain a collector could hope to get. The ‘Half-Figure Service’, made in around 1723, sparked a bidding frenzy at ...

Elaborate bowls. Onion-pattern dishes. These are all antiques that make collectors hope that they have a piece of old Meissen porcelain. Sometimes it’s wishful thinking, because all of these ...

The year my late grandfather Henry H. Arnhold introduced me to The Great Bustard, the most prized object in his collection of Meissen porcelain, I started glassblowing. His mother had begun ...

and the zenith of porcelain as art has been made in Meissen, a town near Dresden, where Wagner once lived and where we experienced his four ... The company that brought the dire wolf back from ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The tiny crossed swords on Meissen porcelain are among the world’s oldest trademarks, having been applied by ...

In the ’70s, Henry Arnhold started acquiring Meissen porcelain on his own. His family’s collection had escaped the Nazis in Europe, and so had he. He decided to build on the tradition that his ...