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

データ種別	図書
出版者	Princeton : Princeton University Press
出版年	c2020

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板橋B2 書庫洋書書架		751.3/Ma51	0368149			9780691182339	請求メモ	予約	請求メモ	予約

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本文言語	英語
大きさ	xxi, 501 p., [16]p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm
一般注記	Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-486) and index Summary: "This is a history of porcelain as a business and consumer product, from the eighteenth century to the present day. Many books have been written on Chinese porcelain as an exotic import from Asia, but this book tells the history of the Central European reinvention and mass production of the material. Porcelain was first invented in medieval China, but the evolution of what its first producers called "white gold" was set in motion by Saxon king Augustus the Strong. Augustus obsessed over owning a personal alchemist, Johann Böttger, whom he imprisoned in his castle, first to make gold, and when that failed, to make porcelain. Trained in chemistry by an apothecary, Böttger took advantage of the king's obsession with porcelain and eventually produced the first European ceramic vessels whose delicacy and strength resembled those of Asian imports. Augustus funded the creation of a Saxon royal manufactory, which became the famous Meissen factory, and which to this day stands for the highest quality in por
著者標目	*Marchand, Suzanne L., 1961- author
ISBN	9780691182339

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