Download or read book French Eighteenth century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum written by Linda Horvitz Roth and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive catalog of this important collection
Download or read book A Catalogue of French Porcelain in the British Museum written by Aileen Dawson and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Museum collection of French porcelain numbers almost 300 pieces. This fully illustrated catalogue includes descriptions and discussions of many pieces which have never before been published.
Download or read book The Wrightsman Collection Vols 3 and 4 Furniture Snuffboxes Silver Bookbindings Porcelain written by and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1970 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Porcelain written by George Savage and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The S vres Porcelain Manufactory written by Beatrice Pannequin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tumultuous years of the French Revolution left France’s prestigious decorative arts industries poised on the brink of ruin. It was not until after the fall of the monarchy and the ascendancy of the Consulat and Empire under Napoleon that they began to recover so that by the middle of the nineteenth century they stood at the pinnacle of their achievement. This book is the first in depth study of the renowned porcelain works at Sèvres during its virtual rebirth under the 47 year direction of the scientist, teacher, and administrator Alexandre Brongniart. Some 110 working drawings from the Sèvres Archive are reproduced here for the first time in color. They celebrate the high skill of the artists whose work often documented contemporary events in France. There are table services in the 'Egyptian' and 'Etruscan' taste as well as individual pieces that recall Napoleonic military campaigns. There are also exquisite Neoclassical decorations using motifs such as birds, butterflies, and insects that reflect the century’s early fascination with the natural sciences. The repertoire of nineteenth century eclecticism is evident in the output of Sèvres from the revival of Gothic and renaissance motifs to the outburst of naturalism. Eleven essays by leading authorities assess this dynamic period.
Download or read book The Cultural Aesthetics of Eighteenth Century Porcelain written by MichaelE. Yonan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth century, porcelain held significant cultural and artistic importance. This collection represents one of the first thorough scholarly attempts to explore the diversity of the medium's cultural meanings. Among the volume's purposes is to expose porcelain objects to the analytical and theoretical rigor which is routinely applied to painting, sculpture and architecture, and thereby to reposition eighteenth-century porcelain within new and more fruitful interpretative frameworks. The authors also analyze the aesthetics of porcelain and its physical characteristics, particularly the way its tactile and visual qualities reinforced and challenged the social processes within which porcelain objects were viewed, collected, and used. The essays in this volume treat objects such as figurines representing British theatrical celebrities, a boxwood and ebony figural porcelain stand, works of architecture meant to approximate porcelain visually, porcelain flowers adorning objects such as candelabra and perfume burners, and tea sets decorated with unusual designs. The geographical areas covered in the collection include China, North Africa, Spain, France, Italy, Britain, America, Japan, Austria, and Holland.
Download or read book Shapely Bodies written by Christine A. Jones and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shapely Bodies is the first study of the politics behind the making of porcelain’s fashionable image in eighteenth-century France.
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 Porcelaine fran aise du XVIIIe si cle written by Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and published by Charles Massin. This book was released on 2011 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "La porcelaine de Chine, blanche et translucide, a connu en Europe un engouement extraordinaire dès la Renaissance. Les princes voulaient en posséder, les céramistes voulaient en fabriquer. En Italie au XVIe siècle, puis en France au XVIIe siècle, ils inventèrent une admirable "porcelaine tendre" à laquelle, au XVIIIe siècle, la manufacture royale de Sèvres conféra un éclat inégalable. Le kaolin, indispensable pour fabriquer la "porcelaine dure", fut découvert dans le Limousin en 1768. Les manufactures se multiplièrent alors, surtout à Paris. Cet ouvrage raconte cette passionnante histoire. Son abondante illustration montre les étapes de la création, les inventions artistiques étonnantes de ces céramistes qui ont imaginé les innombrables métiers nécessaires à la fabrication de la porcelaine. Les décorateurs contemporains remettent sans cesse au goût du jour leurs innovations."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Eighteenth century French Porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum written by Aileen Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ashmolean Museum has a collection of French porcelain which is remarkable both for several individual pieces from famous collections, and also for the way in which it demonstrates the development of porcelain in France, from the late-17th century onwards. The book illustrates and discusses in detail over 50 of the most attractive, rare and important pieces in the collection, from eight known factories, including Vincennes/Sevres, St Cloud, Chantilly, Mennecy and Villeroy.
Download or read book The Book of Porcelain written by Gustav Weiss and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of porcelain in the Orient and in Europe with a discussion of the techniques of porcelain making and its complementary art porcelain painting.
Download or read book Modern France written by Arthur Augustus Tilley and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1922 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Chocolate written by Louis E. Grivetti and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 1556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) 2010 Award Finalists in the Culinary History category. Chocolate. We all love it, but how much do we really know about it? In addition to pleasing palates since ancient times, chocolate has played an integral role in culture, society, religion, medicine, and economic development across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. In 1998, the Chocolate History Group was formed by the University of California, Davis, and Mars, Incorporated to document the fascinating story and history of chocolate. This book features fifty-seven essays representing research activities and contributions from more than 100 members of the group. These contributors draw from their backgrounds in such diverse fields as anthropology, archaeology, biochemistry, culinary arts, gender studies, engineering, history, linguistics, nutrition, and paleography. The result is an unparalleled, scholarly examination of chocolate, beginning with ancient pre-Columbian civilizations and ending with twenty-first-century reports. Here is a sampling of some of the fascinating topics explored inside the book: Ancient gods and Christian celebrations: chocolate and religion Chocolate and the Boston smallpox epidemic of 1764 Chocolate pots: reflections of cultures, values, and times Pirates, prizes, and profits: cocoa and early American east coast trade Blood, conflict, and faith: chocolate in the southeast and southwest borderlands of North America Chocolate in France: evolution of a luxury product Development of concept maps and the chocolate research portal Not only does this book offer careful documentation, it also features new and previously unpublished information and interpretations of chocolate history. Moreover, it offers a wealth of unusual and interesting facts and folklore about one of the world's favorite foods.
Download or read book ptie catalogue des meubles objets d art du XVIIIe siecle written by Jacques Doucet and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book El Museo de la Farmacia Hispana written by Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Consejo Social and published by Editorial Complutense. This book was released on 1993 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marks and Monograms on European and Oriental Pottery and Porcelain written by William Chaffers and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
