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Author : Robert Jesse Charleston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Meissen porcelain
ISBN : UOM:39015015803714
Author : Jeffrey Munger,Elizabeth Sullivan
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781588396433
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}
Author : Suzanne L. Marchand
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691204239
"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.
Author : Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo,Alfredo Reyes,Robbig Munchen
Publisher : Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3897905868
An impressive overview of the gems of the most sumptuous Meissen porcelain of the early period! Presented in English. Switzerland is well-known for its host of remarkable collections of eighteenth-century European porcelain. Exemplary representatives of these are such extraordinary collector personalities as Albert Kocher or Dr Marcel Nyffeler. A number of these magnificent collections can be found today -- as a result of endowments or gifts -- in Switzerland's renowned institutions. This publication is dedicated to the passionate collecting of Swiss connoisseurs and these exceptional treasures, enriched by articles penned by renowned art historians and porcelain experts.
Author : Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0300126816
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.
Author : Irwin Untermyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : UOM:49015001228296
Author : Janet Gleeson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780446564793
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.
Author : Maureen Cassidy-Geiger,The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in Decorative Arts, Design and Culture (Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:959163964
Author : Uwe Geissler
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : China painting
ISBN : 0764302809
Learn the classic porcelain painting techniques from Meissen (Germany) that rank among the most beautiful and precious of all porcelain art. In many full-color, step-by-step illustrations, the author shows how the porcelain painter can create decorations in the Meissen manner. Especially popular are thirty-six flower motifs, the classic onion pattern, and green grapevine decorations.
Author : Hugo Morley-Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Meissen porcelain
ISBN : UOM:39015005226793
Traces the history of the Meissen factory from it's foundation in 1710.
Author : Gerhard Röbbig
Publisher : Hirmer Verlag
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 3777442259
The Meissen figures, groups, animals and birds of the first half of the eighteenth century constitute not only a unique chapter in European ceramics but also a multi-faceted portrait of a society marked by humour, tolerance, scientific curiosity, and interest in all fields of art. Amongst the most original and beautiful artistic creations of this period are the porcelain birds modelled by Johann Joachim K�ndler. The present volume is the first comprehensive survey of more than one hundred porcelain birds by Johann Joachim K�ndler (1706-1775). This prolific sculptor created the models for all of these figures during the twenty-year period from his entry into service at the manufactory in 1731 up until 1750. The vast majority of these rare and magnificently coloured masterpieces were inspired by the observation of live specimens and are still unparalleled today. A total of 115 bird figures are published here along with the latest research findings and a wealth of historical cross-references and background. In some cases, the provenance of the figures can be traced back to the original royal collections or to those of the Rothschilds, Ole Olsen, and others. Without exception, all the present pieces now form part of European private collections. The original German-language publication was the catalogue of the exhibition Kabinettst�cke - Die Mei�ener Porzellanv�gel von Johann Joachim K�ndler 1706 -1775 (Munich, October 20 to November 18, 2006), in which the general public enjoyed an exceptional opportunity to see these masterpieces from private collections gathered together under one roof.
Author : Ulrich Pietsch,Theresa Witting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Ceramic tableware
ISBN : 3865022472
Author : Otto Walcha
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Meissen porcelain
ISBN : 0399117490
Author : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,J. Jefferson Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UVA:X000665664
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.
Author : Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens,Ulrich Pietsch
Publisher : D Giles Limited
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1904832792
Represents the most recent and significant scholarship on the Wark Collection, one of the finest Meissen collections in the world.