Arnica pattern
The arnica pattern is a decoration created in 1907 at the Meissen porcelain factory .
As early as 1901, the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory produced a new type of service called "T smooth", which was to become the most important and most produced service from Meissen for at least a decade. It was aligned in its flatness stressed the fact that modern high-fired to use decors and can be considered as advance grip on the onset of the 1920s functionalism. It was brought onto the market with different decors over the years, its first form of decoration was the famous and groundbreaking wing pattern , designed by Rudolf Hentschel in 1901.
In 1907, Rudolf Hentschel also designed another form of decoration for the same service, this time the arnica pattern in blue , which, in contrast to the earlier wing pattern, is characterized by more lightness in that it leaves more surface unpainted and thus emphasizes the shapes even more.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Just: Meissen Art Nouveau porcelain. Leipzig 1983, p. 126 ff.