Porcelain : : A History from the Heart of Europe / / Suzanne L. Marchand.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Marchand, Suzanne L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 p.) :; 16 color + 40 b/w illus. 9 tables. 2 maps.

A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the presentPorcelain 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 n...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations and Tables
• Note on Currencies and Other Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Reinventing the Recipe
• Chapter 2. The Challenge of Wedgwood and the Rise of the Private Firm
• Chapter 3. Making, Marketing, and Consuming in the “Golden Age”
• Chapter 4. Surviving the Revolutions
• Chapter 5. The Discrete Charms of Biedermeier Porcelain
• Chapter 6. Of Capitalism and Cartels
• Chapter 7. Porcelain, the Wilhelmine Plastic
• Chapter 8. The Fragility of Interwar Porcelain
• Chapter 9. From Cold War Wonder to Contemporary White Elephant
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Image Credits
• Index