A Princely Pursuit: The Malcolm D. Gutter Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain

About this book

Through tremendous grit and research Malcolm D. Gutter has been forming a remarkable porcelain collection over several decades primarily on a professors salary. A Princely Pursuit presents more than one hundred significant pieces from the collection which focuses primarily on early Meissen particularly the royal collection that Augustus II (1670 1733) commissioned for the Japanisches Palais his pleasure palace in Dresden and the porcelain works he had imported from China and Japan. In addition to reproducing many documented pieces from the royal collection this volume includes numerous collectors stories which capture in Gutters own voice his determined and painstaking hunt for Meissen porcelain around the world as well as the legendary figures he has met and worked with along the way. Pairing Meissen history with exemplary objects from the German manufactory A Princely Pursuit makes an essential contribution to the field of decorative arts.