Probably the best way to begin this story is by noting that porcelain is strong and resilient but also breakable. It has a slightly human feel that way. Porcelain was arguably the first global fad.

The Oppenheimer porcelain pieces will go under the hammer on September 14 at Sotheby"s New York. Image: Courtesy Sotheby"s An auction lot like this hasn"t been seen on the market in the last four ...

A collection of 18-century Meissen porcelain restituted by the Dutch government to heirs of its original owners, Franz and Margarethe Oppenheimer, realized a total of US$15 million—nearly five times ...

Each piece in the new Art de la Table Collection, created in collaboration with French porcelain maker J.L. Coquet, takes approximately four weeks and involves the work of 40 artisans to produce.

Whether you are of the spiritual persuasion or subscribe to more scientific ways of thinking, we can all agree on a few truths: that the sea is a vast, exceptionally mysterious, fearsome force of ...

“I had never worked in porcelain before,” says the artist Arlene Shechet, a self-described “decorative arts geek” whose plaster and clay sculptures, incorporating metals and wood—hybrids between ...

Industrialist Henry Clay Frick worked his way up from a salesclerk in Pittsburgh to a director of J. P. Morgan’s U.S. Steel Corporation, amassing a huge fortune and an ever-growing collection of ...

Sotheby’s will auction a collection of early 18th-century Meissen porcelain that was restituted by the Dutch government to the heirs of Franz Oppenheimer, a Jewish businessman who fled his home in ...