ABSTRACT
Jacob Falke was a German-Austrian cultural historian and museum curator who became interested in the developing design movement of the time that reflected arts-and-crafts thinking about design. It is commonly supposed that qualities which are at all worthy of consideration for modern Art-Industry consist solely in special workmanship, as for example, the excellence, solidity and lustre of the lackerwork and polish to which their artists cannot in any degree approach. It is the same with works of a similar character in which the silver is not inserted in threads into the smooth surface, producing its effect by the design, but lies in relief, forming ornamental patterns and figures which are composed and chased with all the boldness of Japanese Art. The purely white porcelain is in itself of no decorative quality, and if ornamented with color, the effect becomes hard and stiff.
