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LOVING<br />
MANUFACTORY WORK<br />
CRAFTSMANSHIP DOWN TO THE LAST DETAIL<br />
„Once you understand<br />
Nature, you<br />
can also interpret<br />
and abstract her.“<br />
Andreas Herten<br />
It is not for nothing that we<br />
designate our work as being<br />
hand-crafted art. True masterpieces,<br />
after all, call for<br />
technical aplomb coupled with<br />
an artist’s loving attention to<br />
detail – as is the case with our<br />
tenderly hand-painted <strong>Golden</strong><br />
<strong>Berry</strong> motifs on Waves Relief.<br />
Many of Meissen’s splendid<br />
decorative schemes are painted<br />
onto the glazed surface of<br />
the already twice-fired porcelain.<br />
This technique is referred to<br />
as „overglaze painting“.<br />
Each of the cherished pieces<br />
has to undergo numerous processes<br />
before it is complete; the<br />
paints required are made to<br />
jealously guarded formulae in our<br />
Manufactory’s colour laboratory.<br />
Before starting to work on a motif,<br />
our porcelain painters mix the<br />
paint powder in the precise<br />
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