Download or read book A History of Eighteenth century German Porcelain written by Christina H. Nelson and published by Lucia Marquand. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first time complete catalogue of a recently donated private collection - one of the most important in the world - of 18th Century German porcelain.

Download or read book Porcelain written by Suzanne L. Marchand and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Download or read book 18th century German Porcelain written by George Savage and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes an extensive history of the Meissen works.

Download or read book Early German porcelain eighteenth century art furniture and objets d art written by Gerhard Röbbig (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book German and Austrian Porcelain written by George Whitaker Ware and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 1963 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the amateur or the expert, full details on characteristics, designers, and the history of eighteenth-century and later German and Austrian porcelains.

Download or read book Selected Works written by Gerhard Röbbig (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2015* with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book S vres Porcelain written by Carl Christian Dauterman and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1986 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Siting China in Germany written by Christiane Hertel and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces and interprets the complex history of German chinoiserie in the long eighteenth century, focusing on its emergence in literature and the arts.

Download or read book German Porcelain of the 18th Century written by Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aspects of Ceramic History written by Gordon Elliott and published by Gordon Elliott. This book was released on 2006 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Continental Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century written by Robert Lonsdale Charles and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to works from Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Scandinavia, Russia and Italy. Includes potters' marks.

Download or read book The Arcanum written by Janet Gleeson and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary episode in cultural & scientific history comes to life in the fascinating story of a genius, greed, & exquisite beauty revealed by the obsessive pursuit of the secret formula for one of the most precious commodities of eighteenth century European royalty-fine porcelain.

Download or read book Eighteenth century Meissen Porcelain from the Margaret M and Arthur J Mourot Collection in the Virginia Museum written by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974 Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Mourot put on loan at the Virginia Museum the collection of Meissen porcelain catalogued in the following pages. Over the years since 1974 the Mourots have annually made gifts of individual pieces so that, as of the date of publication, approximately eighty percent of their collection forms part of the Museum's permanent collection. -- Foreword.

Download or read book Eighteenth century Italian Porcelain written by Clare Le Corbeiller and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1985 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eighteenth century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art written by Indianapolis Museum of Art and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This very thorough catalogue, with excellent footnotes and bibliography, firmly places the subject in its broadest context." --Apollo Covers approximately 95 pieces, representing Chelsea, Bow, Derby, Worcester, Chamberlain-Worcester, Caughley, Longton Hall, Spode, and Hilditch and Sons.

Download or read book European Porcelain in The Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Jeffrey Munger and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porcelain imported from China was the most highly coveted new medium in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-­century Europe. Its pure white color, translucency, and durability, as well as the delicacy of decoration, were impossible to achieve in European earthenware and stoneware. In response, European ceramic factories set out to discover the process of producing porcelain in the Chinese manner, with significant artistic, technical, and commercial ramifications for Britain and the Continent. Indeed, not only artisans, but kings, noble patrons, and entrepreneurs all joined in the quest, hoping to gain both prestige and profit from the enterprises they established. This beautifully illustrated volume showcases ninety works that span the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century and reflect the major currents of European porcelain production. Each work is illustrated with glorious new photography, accompanied by analysis and interpretation by one of the leading experts in European decorative arts. Among the wide range of porcelains selected are rare blue-and-white wares and figures from Italy, superb examples from the Meissen factory in Germany and the Sèvres factory in France, and ceramics produced by leading British eighteenth-century artisans. Taken together, they reveal why the Metropolitan Museum’s holdings in this field are among the finest in the world. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

Download or read book Collecting China written by Vimalin Rujivacharakul and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting China is a unique collection of essays that brings together theories of materiality and what collecting has meant to various peoples over time. Collecting China grew out of a simple question: how does a thing become Chinese? Fifteen essays explore this question from different angles, ranging from close examination of world-renowned private collections to critical reinterpretations of historical writings.