But there are some porcelain pieces of décor you should never overlook in a thrift store because they could be valuable. Obvious valuable figurines would be from high-end brands Lladró, Dresden, or ...

In the first half of the 18th century, a rare but virulent new illness sprung to life in Mitteleuropa. Porzellankrankheit, or “porcelain sickness”, was an affliction of the wealthy: smitten by the ...

Old methods, modern art. One company dragging Dresden’s traditions into the modern world is Meissen, a high-end ceramics company that, in 1710, created Europe’s first porcelain.

Savill was not only the director, but also the Wallace’s internationally regarded curator of 18th-century French porcelain and goldsmiths’ work, a role she relished ...

A still from the documentary "Porcelain War" is pictured. When not training neophyte Ukrainian warriors, Slava creates porcelain figurines from clay. His life partner, Anya, ...

The Great Exhibition. Within the context of the V&A, Cole (1808-1882) is perhaps best known as one of the founding figures and first Director, from 1857, of the museum’s predecessor institution, the ...

Robert Pinsky revisits Czesław Miłosz’s poem “Song on Porcelain,” and asks what Americans have valued in their own cultural past that might now feel lost or troubling.

The Ukrainian film Porcelain War, about artists defiantly at work during a time of war, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the best feature documentary category for the 2025 Oscars ...

This documentary, shot by its subjects, looks at three Ukrainian artists who balance their work with military resistance to the Russian invasion, making the case that art can be resistance ...

The hit Sundance documentary 'Porcelain War' documents the impact that the war in Ukraine has on art. Watch the trailer.

Alongside Baroque architecture, Dresden’s outstanding museums are its top visitor draw. The city’s sprawling Royal Palace boasts Europe’s largest treasure collection (famously the focus of a ...