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Ming Dynasty Porcelain, Valued Up to $500K, Purchased at Yard Sale for $35

by Sarah Rose Sharp March 3, 2021March 3, 2021

The rare find is headed to auction at Sotheby’s, where it is valued between $300,000 and $500,000.

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Edmund de Waal’s Relationship to Precious Materials at the Frick Collection

by Julia Friedman August 13, 2019August 13, 2019

The exhibition Elective Affinities draws viewers into stories of the Frick’s permanent collection and a contemporary artist’s intellectual and aesthetic reckonings and inventions with them.

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The Transporting, Tactile Pleasures of Porcelain

by Letícia Wouk Almino February 21, 2017February 17, 2017

An exhibition at the Frick features pieces from its collection of Royal Meissen porcelain curated by artist Arlene Shechet, as well as works she made while in residence at the historic manufactory.

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Light up a Lithophane, Reveal a Hidden 19th-Century Image

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 26, 2015May 27, 2015

Imperceptible in the light, only when illuminated by flame in the dark is a 19th-century lithophane image revealed.

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Cracking Open the Seductive History of Porcelain

by Sarah Archer November 24, 2014November 27, 2014

MEISSEN, Germany — Of his extensive collection of ceramics, Oscar Wilde once remarked: “I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.” What Wilde felt he was increasingly failing to “live up to” was probably the sort of bourgeois respectability that is often symbolized by a set of good porcelain.

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