TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marchand,Suzanne L.
TI  - Porcelain: a history from the heart of Europe
SN  - 9780691182339
AV  - HD9616.A2 
U1  - 338.4/766650943 
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton NJ, Oxford
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Porzellanindustrie
KW  - stw
KW  - Industriegeschichte
KW  - Mitteleuropa
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Porcelain industry
KW  - Europe, Central
KW  - History
KW  - Fellow
KW  - Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History
KW  - Class of Fall 2022
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Betrifft auch: Meißen
N2  - 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
UR  - https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz1679531719inh.htm
ER  -