Dubsky 5000
The oldest pattern of the Viennese Porcelain Manufactory Augarten still being painted is the so called pattern Dubsky. In 1724, the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory made the lavish porcelain furnishings for a palace in Brno which later came into possession of Count Dubsky. Today the famous “Dubsky chamber” can be visited in Vienna at the Museum of Applied Arts. The room’s interior furnishings consist of wall panelling and furniture, mirrors
and pictures, all richly decorated with little painted porcelain plagues, of scones and chandeliers in porcelain, a porcelain fireplace (put together from several large pieces) and a number of porcelain vessels (vases, glasses, cups, bowls, trays and plates). The painting which was restricted to the relatively limited color palette of the Du Paquier Period (1717 – 1744) includes “indianische” und “deutsche” (Indian and German) flowers (fireplace), birds, little Chinese figures and architectures. Chinese and birds also comprise the free standing figural decoration on the chandeliers. From the vast variety of porcelain in the Dubsky collection Augarten offers not less than six vases and further accessories.
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