Antiques & Collecting Magazine, February 1st, 2003
The pieces that won Edward Boehm international fame are the birds. Frozen in time, all nonetheless seem ready to burst into song and flight at any moment.
PORCELAIN figurines have long fascinated collectors. Their intricacy of design and delicacy of modeling pose a problem in production that is the same today as it was in the 18th and 19th centuries when the great European factories were delighting the world with porcelain personages of the theatre, fashion world, and royalty.
Porcelain was first manufactured by the Chinese in the Sung Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279) from a mixture of specially prep...
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