• Medientyp: Buch
  • Nachgewiesen in: Sächsische Bibliografie
  • Titel: Porcelain : a history from the heart of Europe
  • Beteiligte: Marchand, Suzanne L. [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: Princeton NJ; Oxford: Princeton University Press, [2020]
  • Umfang: xxi, 501 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten mit Bildtafeln; Illustrationen
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 9780691182339
  • RVK-Notation: QR 529 : Sonstige verarbeitende Industriezweige
  • Schlagwörter: Deutschland > Porzellanherstellung > Geschichte 1700-2019
    Meißen > Porzellanherstellung > Meißener Porzellan > Geschichte
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  • Anmerkungen: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 467-486
    Betrifft auch: Meißen
  • Beschreibung: 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.