The crossed-swords mark on the bottom of a vase ... antiques that make collectors hope that they have a piece of old Meissen porcelain. Sometimes it’s wishful thinking, because all of these ...

Collectors look for the crossed-swords mark on the bottom of a vase ... Any of these could indicate they have a piece of very old Meissen porcelain. The famous original Meissen factory made ...

The crossed-swords mark on the bottom of a vase ... that make collectors hope that they have a piece of very old Meissen porcelain. Sometimes it’s wishful thinking, because all of these things ...

The crossed-swords mark on the bottom of a vase ... that make collectors hope that they have a piece of very old Meissen porcelain. Sometimes it's wishful thinking, because all of these things ...

The crossed-swords mark on the bottom of a vase ... that make collectors hope that they have a piece of very old Meissen porcelain. Sometimes it's wishful thinking, because all of these things ...

The crossed-swords mark on the bottom of a vase ... that make collectors hope that they have a piece of very old Meissen porcelain. Sometimes it's wishful thinking, because all of these things ...

The crossed-swords mark on the bottom of a vase ... Collectors who own these items hope they are very old Meissen porcelain. Sometimes it's wishful thinking, because all of these things were ...

Arnhold introduced me to The Great Bustard, the most prized object in his collection of Meissen porcelain ... Glassblowing is itself an old craft, developed in Syria 2,000 years ago, and I ...

Valhalla and the old gods are incinerated in the mother of all pyres, which is my idiosyncratic segue to today’s topic: Meissen porcelain. The demise of the gods signals the dawn of Earth ...

Before Prada, Dom Pérignon and Mercedes-Benz, there was Meissen -- the porcelain mark with the distinctive crossed blue swords, perhaps Europe's oldest luxury brand. Still made by hand in ...

On Sept. 14, Sotheby’s New York will sell more than 100 pieces of Meissen porcelain, once owned by a German-Jewish coal baron and restituted to his heirs. For a casual observer, the $3.1 million ...