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There is hardly any material better suited to reproducing animal skin than ceramic

Four individual cast parts are required to form this miniature in the master workshop - only the jaw has its own mould

Espressotasse | Perl Tier the Wiesbaden State TheaterThe most pioneering design by the Bohemian sculptor Dominikus Auliczek is the PERL service in Louis Seize style, which owes its name to a string of pearls surrounding each individual piece. For the first time in European porcelain history, Auliczek based a service on a 12 sided dodecagon instead of the customary circular shape. Various service items, such as cups and tureens, were also decorated with three dimensional acanthus leaves a typical motif