An expensive tea set that no one has ever dared to use has sold for a record price of more than £500,000. The service’s decoration has been hailed as the 'very, very best' Meissen porcelain a ...

H 4" x W 3" H 2 1/2" x W 2 1/2" H 1" x W 5" H 5 1/2" x W 10 1/2" W 8 1/2" W 4" L 12" L 5" L 3 1/2" L 14 1/2" ...

A sale at Sotheby’s of nearly 120 lots of rare, early 18th-century Meissen porcelain ... Von Carolsfeld catalogued 240 sets and individual pieces of porcelain, a number of which were featured ...

They appear to be a set but the markings on ... J.F., SW Portland A This is a Meissen armorial purple-ground tea bowl and saucer, of hard paste porcelain, circa 1737-1740. The hand-painted harbor ...

Meissen porcelain is collected avidly and can reach serious money at auction. The “Half-Figure” tea set, which was missing its teapot no less, was auctioned by Bonhams in 2012 for £541,250.

On Sept. 14, Sotheby’s New York will sell more than 100 pieces of Meissen porcelain, once owned by a German-Jewish coal baron and restituted to his heirs. For a casual observer, the $3.1 million ...

Sotheby's will soon auction off a prestigious collection of Meissen porcelain ... Among the most coveted lots are a rare tea and coffee set made for the Morosini family of Venice, estimated ...

A collection of 18-century Meissen porcelain restituted by the Dutch government ... Additional highlights included a Meissen armorial tea and coffee service, made for the noble Morosini family ...