10019776 Adonis Goldzacken Designing the extraordinary

Designing the extraordinary

CUMBERLAND is still considered to be the world's most elaborate floral decoration that is still produced on porcelain: It takes a painter up to three weeks to paint a single plate

the piece is fired and then polished by hand with agate or bloodstone tools

which embody an ideal image and follow strict iconographic guidelines

as a complete service or as a single masterpiece

10019776 Adonis Goldzacken Designing the extraordinaryThe 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