Meissen porcelain
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Meissen porcelain
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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A rarely seen look at the lives of craftsmen behind Meissen porcelain, French Art Nouveau glass and more.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
I watched a small girl in a tulle tutu try to scale a vitrine of Meissen porcelain statuettes by Johann Joachim Kändler, particularly enchanted with one group, a fox accompanying a singer on harpsichord.
From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2021
The real UFOs at Frick Madison, expected in the first quarter of 2021, may therefore be the decorative arts: all those gilded clocks, all that Meissen porcelain, relocated from plutocratic salons into cubes of concrete.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2020
Top photo: 19th-century Meissen porcelain bust of girl, Alexander’s Antiques.
From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2018
There was no refusing, however inconvenient it might have seemed to fight a war with Meissen porcelain under one arm.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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