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[objectofdesiredurham-blog]

Notes on the “Fragile Matters...” Lecture

18/01/19

emphasise the trouble the Europeans went to get the porcelain - obsession with the material - love affair that continues today

porcelain stone and ‘koalin is like the bones of porcelain’ - too much of one or other wont work - highly skilled and precise

First porcelain in China 6th cent AD - darker and with greenish glaze

division of labour in Jingdezhen =  Single piece could pass through 75 hands - process standardised - quality = different to paintings - end 13th cent. Bureau oversaw imperial porcelain

Emperors used porcelain as sign of taste and influence and to show difference between predecessors - also to show they that they could/had the power and wealth to do so

Early contact with porcelain with Europe was through imperial gifts

Dutch saw commercial potential when found the Portuguese ships and kraakware

PAINTING - Dutch School, family in an interior c. 1630 Musee d’Art et Histoire - anonymous -  Not very rich family - have 33 pieces of kraakware -  Shows the vast amount of porcelain that was available very early in the Netherlands

Increasing volume and lowering price - porcelain made available to larger range of society -  Porcelain was able to maintain exclusive status but also could become a consumer good; a commodity, ‘proto-bourgeois status symbol’ -  In-between status of a luxury commodity

Japanese porcelain was much rarer in the Netherlands - really collectors item - Chinese porcelain was becoming almost normal commodity

Significant differences in quality between imperial porcelain and the normal commodity -  Fine pieces of porcelain were for collectors and the highest levels of society

Netherlands was Republic - highest power by the set holder - trying to create a court culture in the House of Orange - porcelain became essential part of this message - signature of the House of Orange - some were diplomatic gifts as sign of power

Japanese porcelain was a way to set collectors apart from each other - much rarer

Henriette Catharina decorated her new palace with porcelain and delftware -  Tradition started by Orange Princesses continued down generations - porcelain became more general message of power and ambition for colonies

FRESCO -  Augustinius Terwesten - Allegory of the triumph of porcelain, 1697 Schloss Dranienburg - brought to her by Gods not as the Chinese

Delft and imitations

European fascination with porcelain was in part born out of the fact the material was so mysterious - didn’t understand how it was made - like holding the iPhone 27

Didn’t stop them from myths emerging of how it was made - curative properties - would break if came into contact with poison

Imitation - result of supply and demand - made earthenware products - try to sell one

Earthenware needs white glaze to make white - porcelain is inherently white

Success of Dutch imitations - were presented alongside porcelain in palaces

Italian Majolica earthenware was not an exact imitation - combined Persian, Chinese and local aspects

16th cent. Portugal centres for earthenware - copies kraak porcelain more precisely - 17th cent. Netherlands - Dutch Rep reach unprecedented economic prosperity Porcelain plays important role in this  

Late 17th and early 18th cent, = in France and Germany factories were made that created earthenware in Delft style -  Association between Deftware and porcelain was of strong influence on others

Delft = city of potters like Jingdezhen - 1620 9 porcelain fact. 1660-1700 grew to 36

Dutch delftware exported all over the Netherlands - barges brought to annual markets across the country -  Delftware also found global market - Span and England, Germany - even US and Japan was reached

Most delftware remained a cheaper alternative to porcelain

Dutch potters were aware of the impact of Chinese porcelain on their products -  Market their earthenware as Dutch porcelain - Delft was closer to porcelain than the Italian Majolica

Decorations even on cheaper ware had to be more reminiscent of Chinese porcelain to be marketable

Painting took time - few decorations = cheaper the product -  Indication of Chinese porcelain rather than exact copies

Real Porcelain

Some had not given up dream of creating real porcelain in Europe - projects were experimental and expensive and not commercial when started

Augustus the Strong

Word Augustus is synonymous with porcelain - imported early Dutch porcelain (delft) from Netherlands

Collected with a vengeance - exchanged 600 soldiers for 150 lidded Chinese vases - exchanged them with Prussia - direct link in whole European courtly world with Dutch princes

Augustus wanted own production - advances of sciences made in alchemy - study of alchemy needed a lot of knowledge, useful for porcelain making

Studying delftware closely and tried to improve it

1710 Meissen factory officially opened - factory was to become commercial enterprise - 1713 brought first white porcelain to the fair

When they worked decoration - Chinoiserie decoration - take small scenes and display them on Meissen porcelain from 1730s - still decoration it with Chinese scenes as this was the connection that existed in the minds of people

German Porcelain claimed ‘luxury commodity’ - Meissen was the new export porcelain

Palace remodelled to suit porcelain collection - Japanese Palace in Dresden

Grand gallery filled with Porcelain zoo - become ultimate representation of his power and knowledge - how he knew how to make porcelain

Animals created for it - biggest achievements in European porcelain to date

***All due to the fact that porcelain came form China***

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