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Author : Peter Wilhelm Meister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714821979
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (219 download)
Download or read book European Porcelain of the 18th Century written by Peter Wilhelm Meister and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harriet Wynter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780690448511
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (485 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to European Porcelain written by Harriet Wynter and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey Munger
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396436
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
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}
Author : Robert Jesse Charleston
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Meissen and Other European Porcelain written by Robert Jesse Charleston and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund De Waal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780720005646
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Arcanum written by Edmund De Waal and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria Penkala
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book European Porcelain written by Maria Penkala and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andreina D'Angeliano
Publisher : Ad Ilissum
ISBN 13 : 9781912168293
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (682 download)
Download or read book Brittle Beauty written by Andreina D'Angeliano and published by Ad Ilissum. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brittle Beauty presents a superlative private collection of European porcelain - radical, rare and in many cases unique pieces assembled over thirty years. Lavishly illustrated and insightfully researched, the book showcases eighty vessels and sculptures, and includes accounts of their patrons and former owners, many as eccentric as the works themselves. One striking attribute of porcelain is its reflective glaze. Mirror-like in a wider sense, Brittle Beauty: Reflections on 18th Century European Porcelain examines the context in which this porcelain was created - including cultural, political, topographical and ceremonial aspects. It also looks at related materials such as silver, textiles and glass. The 18th century was the golden age of porcelain in Europe, which had previously been dependent on precious imports from the Far East. The discovery of the formula for hard-paste porcelain in Dresden in 1709 inspired the establishment of manufactories throughout the Continent. However, its popularity was not purely commercial: porcelain - with its meld of art and science, beauty and intellect, East and West - became a symbol of Enlightenment culture for every princely court. Oriental motifs and European forms were synthesised with deceptive subtlety; later, creations of pure fantasy emerged, often based on travellers' accounts of exotic lands. Familiar Occidental themes such as nature, hunting or archaeology were paralleled by ironic narratives of love and vanity. Porcelain, with its fragile allure, is uniquely expressive of the human comedy, yet its destiny has often been brutal and tragic. This book features essays from several eminent scholars. It also showcases a wealth of stunning imagery from Sylvain Deleu, who expertly photographed the pieces, many for the first time.
Author : MichaelE. Yonan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351545205
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
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.
Author : Janet Gleeson
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446564796
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)
Download or read book The Arcanum written by Janet Gleeson and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Suzanne L. Marchand
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691204233
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
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.
Author : Ulrich Pietsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783865022479
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Fascination of Fragility written by Ulrich Pietsch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Beresford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741740820
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Eighteenth-century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed Collection written by Richard Beresford and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mastery of porcelain technology in the eighteenth century opened up new avenues of creative energy in western art an design. The story is told in the Kenneth Reed Collection through a magnificent selection of 200 items from 27 factories- Austrian, German, English, French and Italian.
Author : R. J. C. Hildyard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812235050
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book European Ceramics written by R. J. C. Hildyard and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of ceramics is extraordinarily diverse, ranging from crude clay utensils to highly decorative pieces of immense beauty and craftsmanship. This lively book traces the story of European ceramics from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day.
Author : Janet Gleeson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780593043486
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (434 download)
Download or read book The Arcanum written by Janet Gleeson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Madeleine Jarry
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Chinoiserie written by Madeleine Jarry and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new style evolved in the decade of 1720-30. Now the Europeans would treat their "Chinese" and "Indian" subjects in a more fanciful manner, far removed from reality and often quite caricatural. Such chinoiserie owed much to the French, whose work would influence the whole of Europe. The development coincided with the emergence of the Rococo, an artistic manifestation all but synonymous with the reign of Louis XV. If chinoiserie cannot be identitified totally with the Rococo, it was certainly one of the more important aspects of that style, which in a very subtle manner combined Far Eastern elements with European motifs. -- Introduction.
Author : Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780911517262
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection of European Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century written by Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300126815
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (268 download)
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.
