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 The Concise Encyclopedia of Continental Pottery and Porcelain written by Reginald George Haggar and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent book, compiled by one of the world's best-known authorities, is the most comprehensive encylopedia of Continental pottery and porcelain every published. It gives concise but complete enteries from A to Z, covering factories, manufacturers, artists, processes, materials, special terminology, and potters' and artists' marks from all the pottery and porcelain centers of Europe. Ilustrated with 24 magnificent full page, colored plates, 160 pages of monochrome photographs, and over 1,600 line drawings. This volume is a companion to the much-sought-after The Concise Encyclopedia of English Pottery and Porcelain.--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Fragile Diplomacy written by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While imported Chinese porcelain had become a valuable commodity in Europe in the seventeenth century, local attempts to produce porcelain long remained unsuccessful. At last the secret of hard-paste porcelain was uncovered, and in 1710 the first European porcelain was manufactured in Saxony. Meissen porcelain, still manufactured today, soon ranked in value with silver and gold. This thorough and lavishly illustrated volume explores the early years of Meissen porcelain and how the princes of Saxony came to use highly prized porcelain pieces as diplomatic gifts for presentation to foreign courts. An eminent team of international contributors examines the trade of Meissen with other nations, from England to Russia. They also investigate the cultural ambience of the Dresden Court, varying tastes of the markets, the wide range of porcelain objects, and their designers and makers. Individual chapters are devoted to gifts to Denmark, other German courts, the Holy Roman Empire, Italy, France, and other nations. For every Meissen collector or enthusiast, this book will be not only a treasured handbook but also a source of visual delight.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library written by Hispanic Society of America. Library and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Antiques Genuine and Spurious written by Frederick Litchfield and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Catalogue written by Hispanic Society of America. Library and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710 50 written by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arnhold porcelain collection is the most important of the great pre-war Meissen collections to have survived intact, remaining with the descendants of the original collectors Heinrich and Lisa Arnhold. Most of the pieces date from the first decades of the royal factory established by August II, elector of Saxony and king of Poland, in 1710, featuring a broad range of early works, much of it experimental. Brought to America in the 1940's ahead of the family's move from Dresden, Henry Arnhold has continued to expand its depth and range, resulting in a rich and personal collection. This volume contains essays by Sebastian Kuhn and Heike Biedermann, and is introduced by Henry's Arnhold's personal recollection of his family as collectors and art patrons in Dresden and of how the porcelain collection was created.
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 Warman s English Continental Pottery Porcelain written by Susan D. Bagdade and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bible for pottery and porcelain collectibles, the third edition is all new from cover to cover. The only price guide of its kind, it features 300 photos, more than 200 categories and more than 10,000 price listings of today's hottest collectibles in the antiques marketplace.
Download or read book Review of the Principal Acquisitions written by Victoria and Albert Museum and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclop dia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Manual of Marks on Pottery and Porcelain written by William Harcourt Hooper and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Ceramics written by Howard Coutts and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
