A Heart for Children

Touching Biedermeier Brooch With Porcelain Painting, ca. 1845

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Touching Biedermeier Brooch With Porcelain Painting, ca. 1845

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At the latest since the Biedermeier years, children in Europe were no longer regarded as miniature adults, but were understood as children in their own right. Only now were they seen as little beings in need of love, the pride of loving and caring parents. It is not surprising that during this time, jewellery was created for the first time, which focuses precisely on this discovery of the child. This touching brooch is to be seen in this context. The piece of jewellery from the 1840s presents an oval porcelain plate with a finely executed depiction of a child. Dreamy looks the propere girl on a small butterfly on his hand. A simple metal frame holds the plaque. The resulting piece of jewellery is a beautiful testament to the late Biedermeier period, combining craftsmanship with the zeitgeist of late Romanticism.

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Around the middle of the 19th century, a new material found its way into jewellery: porcelain. It wasn't actually that new - European porcelain had already been invented at the beginning of the 18th century - but it wasn't until later that it could be produced cheaply and effectively enough to have an advantage over enamel. Previously, porcelain had only been allowed to grace the tables of princes, who jealously guarded the arcanum, i.e., the recipe for porcelain, so that its spread was correspondingly slow. By the middle of the 19th century, however, various porcelain manufactories were flourishing throughout Germany: not only Meissen and KPM Berlin, but also smaller manufactories such as in Thuringia. There, small porcelain plates were painted by house painters, porcelain painters who supplemented their salaries outside the manufactories with work for jewellery manufacturers or private individuals.

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A Heart for Children

€ 298.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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