The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain

by Cassidy-Geiger, Maureen

• ISBN13: 9781904832447
• ISBN10: 190483244X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: D Giles Ltd

Summary

The Arnhold porcelain collection is the most important of the great pre-war Meissen collections to have survived intact, remaining with the descendants of the original collectors. Most of the pieces date from the first decades of the royal factory established by August II, elector of Saxony and king of Poland, in 1710. They feature a broad range of early works, much of it experimental. Most of the pieces in the Arnhold collection were bought by Heinrich and Lisa Arnhold from 1926-35, and most have royal or significant provenance. The collection was brought to America in the 1940s ahead of the family's move from Dresden. Since 1974, Henry Arnhold has continued to expand the depth and range of the collection. The book contains major essays by Sebastian Kuhn, who studies the wider trends in collecting European porcelain between 1900 and 1960 in Europe and America, and by Heike Biedermann, who looks closely at the Arnholds as collectors of modern art in Dresden from their marriage in 1914 until 1935. The catalogue is introduced by a personal recollection by Henry Arnhold of his family as collectors and art patrons in Dresden and how the porcelain collection was created. The Foreword is by Anne Poulet, Director, The Frick Collection, and the main catalogue is by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, Curator of the Arnhold Collection, New York, and Guest Curator, The Frick Collection

Author Biography

Maureen Cassidy-Geiger is Curator of the Arnhold Collection in New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
Introduction: The Arnhold Porcelain Collection: Dresden and New York	p. 10
Collecting Culture: The Taste for Eighteenth-Century German Porcelain	p. 22
The Heinrich and Lisa Arnhold Collection in Dresden	p. 120
The Catalogue
Introduction	p. 160
Meissen Porcelain for Representation and Display	p. 168
Figures for the Dessert and Cabinet Pieces	p. 250
Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, and Other Beverages	p. 278
Table Wares	p. 418
The Private Apartment	p. 526
The Independent Decorators	p. 554
Asian Porcelain and Other Ceramics	p. 662
Map	p. 728
Unser Heim (Our Home)	p. 730
Works Destined for the Royal Palace in Warsaw	p. 773
Acknowledgments	p. 782
Selected Bibliography	p. 786
Index	p. 792
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