Teller | Perl | Gold | 21 cm Adelbert Niemeyer Muscheln und Schnecken

Muscheln und Schnecken

The long ears

you can rest assured: It's a bit like slurping oysters

It was integral in securing a place of honour in the history of European art for the South German Rococo beyond the Bavarian borders

Ted Muehling restricts himself to the essentials - bringing form to function

Teller | Perl | Gold | 21 cm Adelbert Niemeyer Muscheln und SchneckenThe most pioneering design by the Bohemian sculptor Dominikus Auliczek is the PERL service in Louis Seize style, which owes its name to a string of pearls surrounding each individual piece. For the first time in European porcelain history, Auliczek based a service on a 12 sided dodecagon instead of the customary circular shape. Various service items, such as cups and tureens, were also decorated with three dimensional acanthus leaves a typical motif