Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Museum Porcelain

Josef Hoffmann for Vienna Porcelain Manufactory 
Melon-shaped Creamer from Mocha Set
1929
porcelain
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum


Josef Hoffmann for Vienna Porcelain Manufactory
Melon-shaped Sugar Bowl from Mocha Set
1929
porcelain
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Josef Hoffmann for Vienna Porcelain Manufactory
Melon-shaped Cup and Saucer from Mocha Set
1929
porcelain
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Josef Hoffmann for Vienna Porcelain Manufactory
Melon-shaped Mocha Pot from Mocha Set
1929
porcelain
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous Chinese Potter
Ewer
Qing Dynasty, 18th-19th centuries
porcelain
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Meissen Manufactory (Dresden)
Vinegar Pot
ca. 1730-35
porcelain
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Meissen Manufactory (Dresden)
Tea Cup and Saucer
ca. 1730-40
porcelain
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Nikolai Fyodorovich Lapshchin
Cup and Saucer
ca. 1921
porcelain
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Sergey Chekhonin for State Porcelain Manufactory, Petrograd
Teapot
(with text, We Are Hardworking - We Are Truthful)
1921
porcelain
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (Saint Petersburg)
Maxim Gorky
ca. 1950-60
bisque porcelain
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (Saint Petersburg)
Chess Set with Whites versus Reds
ca. 1922-32
porcelain
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (Saint Petersburg)
Chess Set - detail of Whites
ca. 1922-32
porcelain
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (Saint Petersburg)
Chess Set - detail of Reds
ca. 1922-32
porcelain
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (Saint Petersburg)
Red Army Cavalryman
ca. 1925
porcelain
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (Saint Petersburg)
Red Army Soldier playing Accordion
ca. 1950
porcelain
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (Saint Petersburg)
Woman embroidering Soviet Banner
1920
porcelain
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Sèvres Manufactory
Bathing Nymph
(after a sculpture by Étienne-Maurice Falconet)
ca. 1765-75
porcelain
New Orleans Museum of Art

Niderviller Manufactory (Lorraine)
Nymphs garlanding Cupid
ca. 1750
bisque porcelain
Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;
    His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;
The gale, it plies the saplings double,
    And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
    When Uricon the city stood:
'Tis the old wind in the old anger,
    But then it threshed another wood.

Then, 'twas before my time, the Roman
    At yonder heaving hill would stare:
The blood that warms an English yeoman,
    The thoughts that hurt him, they were there.

There, like the wind through woods in riot,
    Through him the gale of life blew high;
The tree of man was never quiet:
    Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

The gale, it plies the saplings double,
    It blows so hard, 'twill soon be gone:
To-day the Roman and his trouble
    Are ashes under Uricon.

– A.E. Housman (1896)