Teller | Adonis | Red Bamboo | 21 cm Ernst Andreas Rauch Als Ignaz Günther vermutlich 1756

Als Ignaz Günther vermutlich 1756 sein majestätisches Kruzifix entwarf

A vide-poche holds the small objects we set down and pick up again each day—a ring

A classic among the services: The Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg owes three of its most important designs to the architect Wolfgang von Wersin

"Freya" is a valuable friend looking after what’s most valuable

deer and other hunted animals in poetic watercolours and immortalizes them using the finest squirrel hair brushes on porcelain

Teller | Adonis | Red Bamboo | 21 cm Ernst Andreas Rauch Als Ignaz Günther vermutlich 1756Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg owes one of its most important services of the 20th century to the architect and designer Wolfgang von Wersin. In the New Objectivity style, Wersin designed the Adonis form for Nymphenburg, which is still one of the manufactory's most beautiful today. The light refracts in the fine grooved relief of the surface, making the shards appear almost transparent in the play of shadows. The reduced painting emphasizes the