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CHOCOLATE GIRL FINDS HER HOME!


Porzellanikon - State Museum of Porcelain - receives a new addition to its collection. It is a teapot with a chocolate girl decor. Petra Werner, chief curator for the art and cultural history of porcelain, recently received an e-mail with the curious subject line: "Pearl seeks family connection". Three days later, the curator received the teapot in a postal parcel. On it is a representation of the chocolate girl, taken from one of the most famous paintings in the Dresden Picture Gallery. It is "La Belle Chocolatière" by Jean-Etienne Liotard, created around 1744/45, and this teapot answers the question that the curator had been asking herself for a long time, namely, whether the chocolate girl service was intended solely for the enjoyment of chocolate. This motif was used, as the curator suspects, because it thematically matched the drinking service and because the painting was already well known at that time. Since 2014 the Porzellanikon in Hohenberg (Villa & Collection) has been showing a set coffee table with the chocolate girl decor from the Moschendorf porcelain factory in Hof. The Dutch chocolate and cocoa company Droste, founded in 1853, commissioned this distinctive motif on its collection tableware between 1920 and 1930: in addition to the Moschendorf porcelain factory, it was Lorenz Hutschenreuther in Selb and the Tirschenreuth porcelain factory who produced this service. "The teapot is a surprise and an absolute rarity. It is a great enrichment to our collection - a real pearl," enthuses curator Petra Werner, who expressed her great gratitude to the donor on behalf of the Porzellanikon.

Kuratorin Petra Werner mit Neuzugang Sammlung Foto: Andreas Gießler

Kuratorin Petra Werner mit Neuzugang Sammlung Foto: Andreas Gießler