An Introduction to European Porcelain
Author | : Harriet Wynter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Porcelain, European |
ISBN | : 9780851401270 |
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Author | : Harriet Wynter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Porcelain, European |
ISBN | : 9780851401270 |
Author | : Harriet Wynter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780690448511 |
Author | : Suzanne L. Marchand |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2022-05-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691204233 |
"This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement."—Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present Porcelain was invented in medieval China—but its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. Saxony’s revered Meissen factory could not keep porcelain’s ingredients secret for long, however, and scores of Holy Roman princes quickly founded their own mercantile manufactories, soon to be rivaled by private entrepreneurs, eager to make not art but profits. As porcelain’s uses multiplied and its price plummeted, it lost much of its identity as aristocratic ornament, instead taking on a vast number of banal, yet even more culturally significant, roles. By the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it became essential to bourgeois dining, and also acquired new functions in insulator tubes, shell casings, and teeth. Weaving together the experiences of entrepreneurs and artisans, state bureaucrats and female consumers, chemists and peddlers, Porcelain traces the remarkable story of “white gold” from its origins as a princely luxury item to its fate in Germany’s cataclysmic twentieth century. For three hundred years, porcelain firms have come and gone, but the industry itself, at least until very recently, has endured. After Augustus, porcelain became a quintessentially German commodity, integral to provincial pride, artisanal industrial production, and a familial sense of home. Telling the story of porcelain’s transformation from coveted luxury to household necessity and flea market staple, Porcelain offers a fascinating alternative history of art, business, taste, and consumption in Central Europe.
Author | : Suzanne L. Marchand |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2022-05-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691204233 |
"This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement."—Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present Porcelain was invented in medieval China—but its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. Saxony’s revered Meissen factory could not keep porcelain’s ingredients secret for long, however, and scores of Holy Roman princes quickly founded their own mercantile manufactories, soon to be rivaled by private entrepreneurs, eager to make not art but profits. As porcelain’s uses multiplied and its price plummeted, it lost much of its identity as aristocratic ornament, instead taking on a vast number of banal, yet even more culturally significant, roles. By the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it became essential to bourgeois dining, and also acquired new functions in insulator tubes, shell casings, and teeth. Weaving together the experiences of entrepreneurs and artisans, state bureaucrats and female consumers, chemists and peddlers, Porcelain traces the remarkable story of “white gold” from its origins as a princely luxury item to its fate in Germany’s cataclysmic twentieth century. For three hundred years, porcelain firms have come and gone, but the industry itself, at least until very recently, has endured. After Augustus, porcelain became a quintessentially German commodity, integral to provincial pride, artisanal industrial production, and a familial sense of home. Telling the story of porcelain’s transformation from coveted luxury to household necessity and flea market staple, Porcelain offers a fascinating alternative history of art, business, taste, and consumption in Central Europe.
Author | : Ludwig Danckert |
Publisher | : Robert Hale |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Porcelain |
ISBN | : 9780719800238 |
This benchmark reference book of European Porcelain has been very thoroughly revised and considerably expanded by the author. The clear design and arrangement in directory form mean the many variations of the same marks can be quickly and reliably identified. The work now contains more than 3,200 keywords and approximately 5,800 porcelain maker's marks, and vast additional material on dates based on the latest research.
Author | : Emil Hannover |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 1925 |
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Author | : Howard Coutts |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300083874 |
The great age of European ceramic design began around 1500 and ended in the early 19th century with the introduction of large-scale production of ceramics. In this illustrated history, with nearly 300 color and black and white photos and reproductions, curator Howard Coutts considers the main stylistic trends�Renaissance, Mannerism, Oriental, Rococo, and Neoclassicism�as they were represented in such products as Italian Majolica, Dutch Delftware, Meissen and S�vres porcelain, Staffordshire, and Wedgwood pottery. He pays close attention to changes in eating habits over the period, particularly the layout of a formal dinner, and discusses the development of ceramics as room decoration, the transmission of images via prints, marketing of ceramics and other luxury goods, and the intellectual background to Neoclassicism.
Author | : Maria Penkala |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Porcelain |
ISBN | : 9789063970253 |
Author | : Ulrich Pietsch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Ceramic tableware |
ISBN | : 9783865022479 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1947 |
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