A manual of pottery and porcelain for American collectors . rcelain is anothersubject worthy of consideration. We have already no-ticed some of the artists employed, but they are only fewamong the many. Beside the bistre ornamental work,and the flowers and insects in peculiarly bright and excel-lent colors, they copied many pictures of the Flemish andDutch schools, and some of the French, probably intro-duced by the French artists employed at the Dresdenworks. * These marks can be found by reference to the chapter on Marksand Monograms, page 151. GERMANY. 123 Figure painting, after Watteau, wa
A manual of pottery and porcelain for American collectors . rcelain is anothersubject worthy of consideration. We have already no-ticed some of the artists employed, but they are only fewamong the many. Beside the bistre ornamental work,and the flowers and insects in peculiarly bright and excel-lent colors, they copied many pictures of the Flemish andDutch schools, and some of the French, probably intro-duced by the French artists employed at the Dresdenworks. * These marks can be found by reference to the chapter on Marksand Monograms, page 151. GERMANY. 123 Figure painting, after Watteau, was another form ofdecoration very extensively employed ; in fact most of thedecorated pieces met are of this character, often accom-panied by flowers and vines in high and very delicate re-lief. After 1806 the general character of the Dresdenporcelain commenced declining. The pieces producedat the present day are only repetitions of the old mouldsand patterns, which, though well executed, want the fullartistic perfection which characterizes the older No. 22.—A Dresden Plate.(With open-work border. Decoration copied from Wouvermann. In possession ofMr. E. A. Ward.) OTHER GERMAN PORCELAINS. Vienna, like all the German porcelain-manufacturingtowns, derived her art from Dresden. It was brought toher by an escaped foreman from the Dresden works. Theprincipal mark employed upon the Imperial fabric wasthe shield crossed by two bars, in blue. No mark wasemployed before 1744. HOCHST (Mayence). Frankenthal (Palatinate).Nymphenburg (Bavaria).—These manufactories were 124 HISTORY OF PORCELAIN. the offspring of Dresden, and consequently similar incharacter; they are readily distinguished by various fea-tures and by their marks. Berlin.—Frederick the Great, during the SevenYears War, transferred many of the Dresden workmenfrom that city to Berlin. Berlin afterward became a competitive manufactory. Its rose and pink colors the Dres-den factory was never able to equal. In Carlyles
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