Porcelain fun

Porcelain plastic: luxurious fun, crowning the exuberance of being. Elegant statuettes, whose existence in the interior lasted for centuries

Passing the gallery

A photo: Mikhail Stepanov, Maxim Roslovtsev

Text: Natalia Utochkina

Magazine: Na (taq) 2003

Porcelain plastic originated as a frank fad, like luxurious fun, crowning the exuberance of being. Elegant statues, whose existence in the interior lasted for centuries, are generated by the interpretation of life as an eternal holiday - and this is their indiscreet charm The associative series arising in connection with the Sevres works immediately recalls the images of Columbine, cupids, florists and sophisticated gentlemen. A colorful background, opened precisely in Sevres, is called “royal blue” and “pink pompadour”. Lily on top of double monogram L means products intended for the king - the main, and then the sole shareholder of the Sevres manufactory, who successfully combined sober practicality with the art of pleasure. The Seasons, as popular in art as it is in music, is the eternal theme of the eternal variability of the world. Thus, for the dessert service of Catherine the Great, several dozens of decorations were made, made up of hundreds of individual flawless figurines of cupids and cupids, small fauns, allegorical personifications of the seasons, arts and sciences. The alchemist Betger, who was simultaneously pursued and divided between the Prussian Frederick the Great and the Saxon Augustus the Strong, creating an ideal porcelain mass, marked the beginning of the production of Meissen porcelain, which remained quite an independent value to this day. It is noteworthy that such a pragmatic initiative, as the opening of the porcelain manufactory in St. Petersburg, belonged to the "merry empress Elisavet." In the style of Russian porcelain, easy French “pronons” was always noticeable, and even peyzankas were clothed in obligatory crinolines. The beauty of porcelain figurines, refined and conditional, is capable of shaking a modern, self-confident ration.

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