Tag: porcelain
On the art market, Chinese porcelain is causing auctions to soar – L’Express
Old ceramics is an interesting sector of the art market because you can easily find beautiful pieces without having to break the bank. Only imperial Chinese porcelain deviates from this…
Same hair, same porcelain complexion and matching outfits, Angelina Jolie and her daughter look more alike than ever
Vivienne and Angelina Jolie displayed their striking resemblance on the red carpet of the 2024 Tony Awards. Same radiant face and same natural hair: mother and daughter are of rare…
The incredible revival of Meissen porcelain – L’Express
On April 17, in Paris, the Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr auction house offered a set of 56 porcelains from the Meissen factory from the collection of Hadrian Merkle, a…
The art of making gold shine on porcelain by Christel Potaufeu
Our summer series on the crafts of the Manufacture de sèvres comes to an end, in the company of Christel Potaufeu, burnisher. The burnishing workshop is the last step for…
Drawing and printing on porcelain with Camille Bé-Dreux
Today, the art printing workshop. This workshop brings together several: the engraving workshop, the tracing workshop and the offset workshop where Camille Bé-Dreux welcomes us. Here, the plate lithograph designer-printer…
Elsa Favier, hollow turner and porcelain maker in Sèvres
The series on the professions of the Manufacture de Sèvres is dedicated to its art technicians and its historic workshops. Thirty crafts are distributed in workshops, in order to tame…
Exciting discovery! 100,000 pieces of porcelain found in ancient shipwreck under the sea
China’s State Cultural Heritage Administration announced that two groundbreaking discoveries were made as part of underwater archeology studies. Discoveries of 2 ancient ships, announced by Chinese official sources, spread over…