10012970 Wolfgang von Wersin The female elephant Djamila by

The female elephant Djamila by August Göhring in naturalistic painting

The overflowing wealth of ideas and the beauty of that era seem to be captured in this porcelain service

is one of the best-known and most outstanding animal figures made by Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg

upwardly curved handles

10012970 Wolfgang von Wersin The female elephant Djamila byThe most pioneering design by the Bohemian sculptor Dominikus Auliczek is the PERL service in Louis Seize style, which owes its name to a string of pearls surrounding each individual piece. For the first time in European porcelain history, Auliczek based a service on a 12 sided dodecagon instead of the customary circular shape. Various service items, such as cups and tureens, were also decorated with three dimensional acanthus leaves a typical motif