All Walks of Life: A Journey with The Alan Shimmerman Collection

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Neuware -All Walks of Life offers a unique opportunity to get to know theeighteenth-century people of Saxony, Paris, London, andSt. Petersburg through the Meissen porcelain sculpture of TheAlan Shimmerman Collection. Johann Joachim Kaendler, alongwith his fellow modelers and painters at Meissen, capturedglimpses of everyday life by paying meticulous attention to thesmallest details: the carefully arranged tray of a trinket sellerthe personal writing of a love letter, the larding tools of a cookpreparing a hare. The Shimmerman Collection's focus on groupsof town criers and artisans provides a fresh look at the creationproduction, and distribution of Meissen porcelain. The publicationincludes the first comprehensive scientific analysis of a majorcollection of Meissen figures.Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Olgastraße 137, 70180 Stuttgart 672 pp. Englisch. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783897906419

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Vanessa Sigalas obtained her doctorate in art history at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen in Germany. She works as an independent curator as well as a research fellow for European Decorative Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. She also serves as the managing editor of the American Ceramic Circle Journal.