The Triumph of Amphitrite: Reconstructing and Restoring Count Brühl’s Meissen Porcelain Table Fountain

Abstract

Recently the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) restored and reconstructed a lost ceramic masterpiece for the new Europe 1600–1815 Galleries. It is a porcelain table fountain made at Meissen for an important royal wedding in 1747, which the Museum acquired in 1870. New research has revealed much about the commission, production and history of this previously mostly unknown centerpiece and it also informed the restoration of this spectacular object. For this project, we used a combination of cutting edge 3D-technology and traditional ceramic making techniques.