Dresden Shepherdess

Any one familiar with Georgette Heyer or for that matter Jane Austen would have come across the Dresden Shepherdess often. The small porcelein figurines decorated dinning tables and shelves and were much admired in the regency period. The Dresden figures were one of the first forms in which European porcelain had appeared. They were first made in the small town of Meissen, near Dresden. Meissen and later Sèvres were the most important porcelein factories in Europe. Interestingly, Auguste Rodin was employed at Sèvres for a short time butapparently did not leave any enduring marks of his presence. The dresden figures still adorn some living rooms.