Dresden China

An image of bright white china tea set including a pot, cup and saucer, sugar bowl with a lid, and a creamer. All have brightly coloured roses and leaves stuck on the outsides. It is on a small wooden table with a vase of pink and white roses behind it.
Dresden Tea Set in the Pink Bedroom

Country of Origin: Germany 
Year: ca. 1872-1920 
Materials: Porcelain and paint  

The Dresden Company was a china manufacturing company that began in Germany in 1872. The produced a large number of china tea sets, but their most popular motifs were developed by flower modeller Carl August Kuntzsch and involved flowers added on to the outside of the tea set.  

This set has applied flowers and sprays in pink, red, blue, yellow, and green, adorned with bees and butterflies. The set includes a teapot, a creamer, sugar bowl, and a teacup with a saucer.  

We acknowledge that we are on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Attawandaron. We honour and respect the history, languages and culture of the diverse Indigenous people who call this territory home.

We acknowledge all the treaties that are specific to this area: the Two Row Wampum Belt Treaty of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy/Silver Covenant Chain; the Beaver Hunting Grounds of the Haudenosaunee NANFAN Treaty of 1701; the McKee Treaty of 1790, the London Township Treaty of 1796, the Huron Tract Treaty of 1827, with the Anishinaabeg, and the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum of the Anishnaabek and Haudenosaunee.

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