Porcelain a history from the heart of Europe
Marchand, Suzanne L. 1961-
Porcelain a history from the heart of Europe Suzanne L. Marchand - xxi, 501 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen
Includes bibliographical references and index Betrifft auch: Meißen
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.
9780691182339 hbk
9780691182339
Porzellanindustrie
Industriegeschichte
Mitteleuropa
Deutschland
Porcelain industry--History--Europe, Central
Porcelain industry--History
Fellow Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History Class of Fall 2022
HD9616.A2
338.4/766650943
Porcelain a history from the heart of Europe Suzanne L. Marchand - xxi, 501 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen
Includes bibliographical references and index Betrifft auch: Meißen
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.
9780691182339 hbk
9780691182339
Porzellanindustrie
Industriegeschichte
Mitteleuropa
Deutschland
Porcelain industry--History--Europe, Central
Porcelain industry--History
Fellow Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History Class of Fall 2022
HD9616.A2
338.4/766650943