Lady in a Palanquine

Country: Czech Republic

Manufactory: Royal Dux Bohemia

Date of establishment: 1970s

Size (cm): 44*53

Porcelain Story

On August 10, 1793, the museum halls of the famous Louvre received their first visitors. Although this museum, of course, became famous much later. And at that moment it was better known as a royal palace, converted into a museum at the whim of Louis XV. Moreover, Louis himself did not, in fact, have a chance to enjoy the glory of a museum benefactor. For the power in the country passed to Napoleon I and the future largest and most famous museum in the world was still called "Napoleon's Museum" for a long time.

The Louvre, whose construction began almost 900 years ago, took its final form in 1989, when the construction of the so-called Louvre Pyramid, conceived as a glass copy of the Egyptian pyramid of Cheops, located in Giza, near Cairo, was completed. Today, the glass structure weighing 180 tons and 21.65 meters high, conceived by the American architect with Chinese roots Claude Angle, seems to everyone to be a familiar and integral part of the Louvre ensemble. And at the time of the construction of the pyramid, it caused a lot of criticism, by the way, not only among the Parisians themselves. Now it’s hard to even imagine another entrance to the museum. Especially after the publication of the famous novel by D. Brown ''The Da Vinci Code'', in which the author decided to lay Mary Magdalene in an inverted part of the structure.

In the largest and richest museum collection of the Louvre, numbering almost 400 thousand works of world art, among the most famous exhibits most often mentioned are the legendary ''La Gioconda'' by Leonardo da Vinci, ''The Beautiful Gardener'' by Raphael, sculptures of Venus de Milo and Nike of Samothrace, works by Michelangelo, Velasquez, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt and many other brilliant authors. Every year, the museum, covering an area of ??over 160 thousand square meters, is visited by almost 10 million people from all over the world.

Your obedient servant has also been there many times. Moreover, in our porcelain collection there are several interesting works that are copies of works presented in the Louvre. And I have already had the honor to present some of them to your attention in the "Facebook" section. Today I will introduce you to a composition that is close in spirit to the era of the opening of the Louvre Museum. I brought this work from the Czech Republic a long time ago. And once, I even remember, I told about how, having paid for several large porcelain compositions, I returned to Kyiv, trusting the promise of the store owners (immigrants from Azerbaijan) to deliver everything ''in the best possible way'' to my home address. Month after month passed, and the promised parcel did not come. My wife even managed to gently reproach me for being too gullible. And yet I didn't have to regret anything. Decent Azerbaijani sellers of products of the famous Bohemian porcelain manufactory kept their word. And they delivered a fragile cargo directly to Kyiv. Safe and sound, by the way. For which, of course, I am grateful to them.