Author: Anna SzkurlatPublisher:
ISBN: 9788370221898
Category : Faience
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Porcelain and Faience Manufactory in Korzec
Author: Anna SzkurlatPublisher:
ISBN: 9788370221898
Category : Faience
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Porcelain
Author: Suzanne L. MarchandPublisher: 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.
The Book of Porcelain
Author: Gustav WeissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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.
The Ceramic Art
Author: Jennie J. YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
An Outline History of Polish Applied Art
Author: Zdzisław ŻygulskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Polish
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Pottery, Glass & Brass Salesman
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brass industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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The National Museum in Cracow
Author: Museum Narodowe w KrakowiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A Manual of Marks on Pottery and Porcelain
Author: William Harcourt HooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Pottery and Porcelain
Author: Frederick LitchfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Author: Adam Bochnak