Lecture 18. Refining Asian Goods - European Ceramics

From Industrious Revolution to Industrial Revolution

Pottery Earthenware

Stoneware

Porcelain

600 and 1000 °C

1100 and 1250 °C

1300 °C

Kaolin/China clay+

+China stone

Soft Porous if not fired

again with glaze

Harder Non porous

HardestNon porous

Persian Earthenware 13th century

Porcelain from the Song period (1279 -1368)

Porcelain from the Ming period (1368-1644)

Famille Verte

Famille Rose

Maiolica, 1431, Florence

French Faience 18th century

Delft ware 1690

Pére François Xavier d’ Entrecolles(1664 to 1741)

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Plate for sauce boatChestnut basket

Sweetmeat dish

The Alchemy tradition

Cabinet of curiositiesSoft Paste Porcelain

Saint Cloud bowl, soft porcelain with blue decorations under glaze

ca. 1700 1710

Hard paste Porcelain/Chinese porcelain

Augustus II (or the Strong) the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (1679-1733).

Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus

1651 – 1708

Johann Friedrich Böttger1682 - 1719

Meissen (Dresden)

1709

Meissen (Dresden)

1709

Vienna 1719

Meissen (Dresden)

1709

Vienna 1719

Höchst 1746

Meissen (Dresden)

1709

Vienna 1719

Höchst 1746

Fürstenberg1747

Meissen (Dresden)

1709

Vienna 1719

Höchst 1746

Fürstenberg1747

Nymphenberg1747

Meissen (Dresden)

1709

Vienna 1719

Höchst 1746

Fürstenberg1747

Nymphenberg1747

Ludwigsburg1758

Meissen (Dresden)

1709

Vienna 1719

Höchst 1746

Fürstenberg1747

Nymphenberg1747

Ludwigsburg1758

Berlin1763