Toilet Box
Johann Martin Heinrici German
Not on view
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.
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