Contributions

  • Nelson, Christina H. - Contributor
  • Roberts, Letitia - Contributor

Publication

2013 - Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee

Language

English

Word Count

134,000 words, Guess

Page Count

536 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCNK4499 .D59 2013

Alternate Titles

  • Warda Stevens Stout collection
  • History of 18th-century German porcelain

Description

This book is a descriptive catalogue of the Dixon Gallery in Memphis' remarkable holdings - donated by Warda Stevens Stout and considered to be among the most important in the world. But the book is also one of the first in English to describe in captivating detail the artisans, aesthetics, social and political intrigue, financial arrangements, and courtly ambitions that resided in porcelain factories at Ansbach, Frankenthal, Fürstenberg, Höchst, Ludwigsburg, Meissen, Nymphenburg, and in Thuringia.

Subjects

People

Warda Stevens Stout (1886-1985)

Times

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