Toilet Box

Johann Martin Heinrici German

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Trained as a porcelain painter who worked both at Meissen and at the Frankenthal porcelain manufactories, Heinrici specialized in a so-called laque burgauté technique of decorating small lacquered objects with inlaid designs of mother-of-pearl, differently colored metals, and other materials. Although this technique originated in China, the landscapes executed on boxes attributed to Heinrici and his workshop are clearly European in nature.

Toilet Box, Johann Martin Heinrici (German, 1711–1786), Lacquered metal inlaid with mother-of-pearl, copper, brass, ray skin, colored stone, gold, German, Dresden

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