Table of Contents

Contents: Christoph Thun-Hohenstein: Viennese Porcelain as a Resonance; Rainald Franz: Three Centuries of Viennese Porcelain and Three Centennials; Rainald Franz & Michael Macek: The Dubsky Chamber and the MAK. An 18th-Century Aristocratic Porcelain Room and its History; Andreas Gamerith: At a Loss for Words. The Zwettl Centerpiece and its Origins; Rainald Franz: The Viennese Porcelain Set for the Duke of Wellington; Errol Manners: The Travels of an Arcanist, Joseph Jakob Ringler; Johannes Wieninger: Exemplars from East Asia; Elisabeth Schmuttermeier: Porcelain versus Silver; Michael Macek: The Hulfswerk von Engelhardtszell 1798-1809 and its Impact beyond 1809; Waltraud Neuwirth: Johann Poysel, First Modelleur of the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory. His 1858 Journey to Limoges, Paris, Sevres, Wallerfangen, and Nymphenburg; Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel & Ulrike Scholda: The Museum as the Administrator of an Estate. The Closure of the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory and Transfer of Its Holdings to the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry; Leonhard Weidinger: The Viennese Porcelain Scene. The Museum and Private Collections; Rainald Franz: Paul Wittgenstein's Porcelain Room; A. Philipp Revertera: Etcetera: Random Thoughts on Collecting (and) Viennese Porcelain; Rainald Franz & Michael Macek: History of the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory 1718-1864 in its Cultural and Political Context; A Visual History of the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory: Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier (1718-1744), Imperial Porcelain Manufactory: Phase 1 (1744-1749), Imperial Porcelain Manufactory: Phase 2 (1750-1783), Conrad Soergel von Sorgenthal (1784-1805), Matthias Niedermayer (1805-1827), Benjamin von Scholz (1827-1833), Andreas Baumgartner (1833-1842), Franz von Leithner (1842-1855), Alexander Loewe (1856-1862), Alois Auer von Welsbach (1862-1864), Augarten Porcelain Manufactory (since 1923-24).