Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (Marchand Suzanne L.)(Pevná vazba)

Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (Marchand Suzanne L.)(Pevná vazba)

Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (Marchand Suzanne L.)(Pevná vazba)

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'This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement.'--Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesA sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present

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

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