Meissen is German manufacturer credited with pioneering hard-paste porcelain in Europe. Established by Johann Friedrich Böttger in Meissen, Germany in 1710, the company first began producing red ...

and marketed in America from about 1600 to the present. Information about the collection or items in it can be found in the following works: Gardner, Paul Vickers. Meissen and Other German Porcelain ...

A regional Australian gallery isn't the first place you'd expect to find a neo-baroque masterpiece that belonged to a Russian tsar. Yet, with some mystery surrounding it, that's just what's happened.