Toilet Box ca. 1760 Johann Martin Heinrici Trained as a porcelain painter who worked both at Meissen and at the Frankenthal porcelain manufactories, Heinrici specialized in a so-called laque burgauté technique of decorating small lacquered objects with inlaid designs of mother-of-pearl, differently colored metals, and other materials. Although this technique originated in China, the landscapes executed on boxes attributed to Heinrici and his workshop are clearly European in Toilet Box. German, Dresden. ca. 1760. Lacquered metal inlaid with mother-of-pearl, copper, brass, ray skin, col
Toilet Box ca. 1760 Johann Martin Heinrici Trained as a porcelain painter who worked both at Meissen and at the Frankenthal porcelain manufactories, Heinrici specialized in a so-called laque burgauté technique of decorating small lacquered objects with inlaid designs of mother-of-pearl, differently colored metals, and other materials. Although this technique originated in China, the landscapes executed on boxes attributed to Heinrici and his workshop are clearly European in Toilet Box. German, Dresden. ca. 1760. Lacquered metal inlaid with mother-of-pearl, copper, brass, ray skin, colored stone, gold. Natural Substances
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