10013685 Lightscape Various service items

Various service items

They originate from the original idea of table decorations as conversational pieces: as porcelain objects through which unknown table guests can initiate conversations with each other

at the transitions between them

the ingenious animal sculptor carried out intensive studies of nature before he designed such perfectly modeled figures as Anton the King Bunny for the manufactory's master workshops

a wastepaper basket with large circular piercing

10013685 Lightscape Various service itemsThe 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