porcelain tableware, With The Flügelmuster Décor

This article is about a beautiful product of porcelain made tableware with the famous Flügelmuster pattern. Marco Polo brought porcelain to Europe and called it Porcellana. It was an Italian word for cowrie shell and an appropriate name for a delicate durable shiny object that seemed worthy as white gold. Europeans became fascinated by Chinese inventions such as porcelain pottery.

Primitive porcelain is the earliest porcelain in China during the Shang Dynasty. The Chinese developed their ancient skills to produce decorated coloured porcelain in the following centuries. The Europeans fell in love with these far east products and made great efforts to imitate the Chinese with the same delicacy and precision. It was a complicated task. Producing this fine-grained translucent material took great patience and expertise. Adding a small amount of the ingredients to its texture had caused cracks and breakage. The unevenness of clay, inconsistent thickness during the model making, and the high glazing temperatures made the process unstable. It wasn’t easy to produce porcelain with the certainty of the expected result.

The decorative style of Art Nouveau that flourished at the turn of the 20th century throughout Europe and the United States represented its fascinating designs in many genres of decorative art, including ceramic design and faience art. The pottery designers shaped dishware and vases with undulating asymmetrical lines influenced by the forms of flower stalks and buds, iris, arums and thistles and created curved porcelain objects based upon the natural shapes and forms. This new approach in art caused visual movement and dynamism in porcelain products and had long-standing popularity among art admirers.