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Porcelain a history from the heart of Europe Suzanne L. Marchand

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Princeton NJ Oxford Princeton University Press [2020]Copyright date: © 2020Description: xxi, 501 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln IllustrationenContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
Carrier type:
  • Band
ISBN:
  • 9780691182339
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title; Erscheint auch als: Porcelain; Erscheint auch als: PorcelainDDC classification:
  • 338.4/766650943
LOC classification:
  • HD9616.A2
Other classification:
  • KUNST
  • QR 529
  • 21.88
  • 83.67
Online resources: Other related works: Rezensiert in: McCaffrey-Howarth, Caroline Of Meissen menSummary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

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