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A brief look at Dresden Porcelain and the Dresden Crown mark.

Dresden Porcelain is often confused with Meissen porcelain, but only because Meissen blanks were used initially.

However, Dresden porcelain refers more to an artistic movement than a particular porcelain company

In fact, several competing ceramic studios emerged under the Dresden umbrella, particularly in the Saxony capital in response to the rise of romanticism during the 19th century.

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Dresden was an important centre for the artistic, cultural and intellectual movement, and it attracted painters, sculptors, poets, philosophers and porcelain decorators alike.

It was not the porcelain factories but the painting studios that were responsible for Dresden Porcelain being so well known all over the world.

There were at least forty porcelain painting studios located near or in the city of Dresden.

All of which were decorating porcelain in the Meissen style