Author: Christina H. Nelson
Publisher: Lucia Marquand
ISBN: 9781555953881
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A first time complete catalogue of a recently donated private collection - one of the most important in the world - of 18th Century German porcelain.
A History of Eighteenth-century German Porcelain
Author: Christina H. Nelson
Publisher: Lucia Marquand
ISBN: 9781555953881
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A first time complete catalogue of a recently donated private collection - one of the most important in the world - of 18th Century German porcelain.
Publisher: Lucia Marquand
ISBN: 9781555953881
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A first time complete catalogue of a recently donated private collection - one of the most important in the world - of 18th Century German porcelain.
Eighteenth-century German Porcelain
18th-century German Porcelain
Author: George Savage
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Includes an extensive history of the Meissen works.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Includes an extensive history of the Meissen works.
German Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Clare Le Corbeiller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Porcelain
Author: Suzanne L. Marchand
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691204233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691204233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
"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.
German Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century Palace
Eighteenth-century German Porcelain, by George Savage. Foreword by H. Weinberg
German Porcelain of the 18th Century
Early German porcelain & eighteenth century art, furniture and objets d'art
Author: Gerhard Röbbig (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783000411984
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783000411984
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
German and Austrian Porcelain
Author: George Whitaker Ware
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
For the amateur or the expert, full details on characteristics, designers, and the history of eighteenth-century and later German and Austrian porcelains.
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
For the amateur or the expert, full details on characteristics, designers, and the history of eighteenth-century and later German and Austrian porcelains.