Woodcut flowers

Woodcut flowers on porcelain

As wood cut flowers is called exact copies of engravings and watercolors from books to botany in ceramic products. The flowers are often shown individually, the botanical features highlighted and the outline hard-drawn. 'Woodcut flowers' appear from 1730, the most important model being the four-volume "Phytantohoza" by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, which presented over 4000 plants. The term ombred flowers was also common because the shadow common in illustrations was also transferred to porcelain or faience .

See also

• Indian flowers
• German flowers

literature

• Renate Eikelmann (ed.): Meissen porcelain of the 18th century. The Ernst Schneider Foundation in Lustheim Palace. Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-51905-9 , pp. 289-290.
• Günther Sterba: Meissen tableware. History, production and decoration of the famous commercial porcelain. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-421-02950-4 , p. 134.