Ballerina with lace 18 x 12 x 23 cm, Kurt Steiner, Porcelain Figures Unterweissbacher

Ballerina with lace 18 x 12 x 23 cm, Kurt Steiner, Porcelain Figures Unterweissbacher The Unterweissbach workshops belonging to the "Thuringian cultural society of porcelain" were founded by Hermann Jost in 1882, and today are among the famous manufacories for exquisite porcelain art in the world. Magnificent groups such as the Louis XIV carriage or gallant motifs such as the "Harlekin Group" are chracterised by an especially fine artistic sensitivity, verifying the hight standing of the Thuringian manuf...

Here you can see the production of porcelain lace and get a glimpse into the manufacturer's guts (interesting reportage in German). Even at the beginning of the 20th century, 4,000 workers worked in several figurine porcelain factories around Rudolstadt. Now there are dozens of them. The porcelain mass is applied to a pcs. of fabric that does not burn in the oven (during firing) and the lace is thus relatively strong (but still understandably fragile). In the Czech republic only figurine manufacturer Duchcov manufactory near Teplice (Royal Dux Bohemia), paper was used instead of fabric, but it burned during firing, making the lace relatively more fragile.