Toilet Box
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Toilet Box
- Maker: Johann Martin Heinrici (German, 1711–1786)
- Date: ca. 1760
- Culture: German, Dresden
- Medium: Lacquered metal inlaid with mother-of-pearl, copper, brass, ray skin, colored stone, gold
- Dimensions: 2 1/4 × 6 × 4 3/4 in. (5.7 × 15.2 × 12.1 cm)
- Classification: Natural Substances
- Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
- Object Number: 2019.283.106a–c
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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