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The conscious departure from Rococo did not completely lead to the adoption of the artistic styles of antiquity. Coming from England, the systematically structured, geometric principles of the Gothic period were discovered as a source of inspiration and forms, and these were brought together with neo-classicist forms.
The two objects exhibited here - the bench and the white porcelain basket - show how these tendencies were also reflected in the applied arts. Since there existed only few models from the Gothic period in the applied arts - on the one hand, because the variety of objects that people needed for living and dwelling had developed a lot since then, and on the other hand, because primarily liturgical objects had survived – it was possible to transfer the design principles very creatively and freely to the new design tasks. In the case of the bench, the Gothic pointed arch was used as a decorative element for the armrest. An enthralling contrast to the otherwise purely classical decorative forms. Also consider the porcelain basket, whose openwork body is formed by a band of ingeniously interlocking pointed arches made of plant stems.