coffee

shelf 2

Meissen, the first European company to unlock the secrets of producing porcelain, excelled in creating elaborate services intricately decorated with imagery of flora and fauna painted in polychrome enamels that often were accented with gilding. Each piece in this coffee service features different types of birds rendered so accurately that they can be identified by species.

 

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