Meissen Another popular tourist sight is the world-famous Meissen porcelain factory. From spring to autumn, several festivals take place in Meissen, such as the pottery market or the "Weinfest", which celebrates the wine harvest. Meissen wine is produced at the vineyards in the river valley ("Elbtal") around the town, part of the Saxonian wine region, one of the northernmost in Europe. Meissen is twinned with: Meissen Meissen (in German orthography: "Meißen", ) is a town of approximately 30,000 about northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the
Bow porcelain factory and Henry Woodward as "the Fine Lady" and 'the Fine Gentleman" in David Garrick's mythological burlesque "Lethe", 1750–52 "are probably the earliest full-length portrait figures in English porcelain"; Some figures bear the incised date 1750, the earliest dates on Bow porcelain. Some were enamelled by William Duesbury. Some Bow figures were imitated from Chelsea models, but many more from Meissen. The largest figures are of General James Wolfe and the Marquess of Granby, no doubt to celebrate their victories in the Seven Years' War, respectively in 1759 and 1760-62. Granby is 14 1/2 inches high. Most factories copied from other