The secret of the chemical composition of china having been discovered in 1709 (until then an exclusive perquisite of Chinese handicraft), the first European hard porcelain manufactory opened in Meissen, Germany, in 1710.
Its most skilful decorator and painter, the accomplished J.G. Höroldt (1696-1775) gave his name to a style thanks to which the 'chinoiseries' (fanciful imitations of Oriental models, in fashion since the second half of the seventeenth century) produced in Meissen, soon became the only ones to compete, in the Old Continent, with Eastern chinaware.
This publication (edited by Rainer Behrends, in Italian, German, French, English and Spanish) presents the reproduction in facsimile of the entire Schulz Codex, the celebrated collection of designs and patterns of Chinese subjects used until the end of the nineteenth century for the decoration of some of Meissen's most famous porcelain.
A cloth-covered slip-case (size 367 x 510 x 155 mm) contains three volumes bound in silk with printing on the spines: volume 1, XXXIV-134 pages, 16 plates; volumes 2 and 3, 132 facsimile plates with over 1000 drawings and sketches.
Italian edition of 400 numbered copies.