This dancer is getting ready for her performance. The last minute touches – making sure that her ballet shoes are properly tied. She is dressed in tulle lace. Irish Dresden uses real cotton net lace impregnated with fine porcelain clay, the material burns away at a firing temperature of 1,290 degrees celsius, leaving its pattern in the porcelain. Handmade roses decorate her dress. Our team of skilled artists paint with care the delicate skin tones, the sparkling eyes and beautiful lips adding colour to the roses, hair, feather and ballet shoes. Prima Ballerina is one of Irish Dresden’s masterpieces, highly collectible and continuing a tradition and of craftmanship and excellence. Artist: Hans Schubert