Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln Der Schöne Schein Deutsche Fayencekunst
Putting a "beautiful veneer" on things was a leitmotif of the Baroque era. In that age of ostentation, of splendor, exuberance and joie de vivre, faience took its place alongside silver in courtly and aristocratic dining rooms, but also in bourgeois homes starting in the mid-17th until well into the 18th century. It even made its way into table settings and étagères for official state functions. At first, faience – an earthenware with an opaque white tin glaze – served as a deceptively genuine-looking "replacement" for the highly coveted Chinese porcelain that had to be imported from overseas. Over the decades, however, European faience came into its own, resulting in many stunning pieces. The richly illustrated catalog of the Museum of Applied Art in Cologne now introduces the public to an important collection that has been part of the museum's holdings since its founding in 1888 but which had not hitherto been the subject of a thorough scholarly analysis. Nearly 180 of the beautiful faience treasures, carefully restored for the accompanying special exhibition, are presented in pictures and detailed texts. The magnificent, often masterfully decorated and painted works of art bear witness today to one of the most creative and productive periods in the history of European art, culture and society.
Hardcover
22,5 x 28,5 cm
440 pages
780 color illustrations
German
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-414-0
2013
Editors:
Patricia Brattig, Petra Hesse
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Putting a "beautiful veneer" on things was a leitmotif of the Baroque era. In that age of ostentation, of splendor, exuberance and joie de vivre, faience took its place alongside silver in courtly and aristocratic dining rooms, but also in bourgeois homes starting in the mid-17th until well into the 18th century. It even made its way into table settings and étagères for official state functions. At first, faience – an earthenware with an opaque white tin glaze – served as a deceptively genuine-looking "replacement" for the highly coveted Chinese porcelain that had to be imported from overseas. Over the decades, however, European faience came into its own, resulting in many stunning pieces. The richly illustrated catalog of the Museum of Applied Art in Cologne now introduces the public to an important collection that has been part of the museum's holdings since its founding in 1888 but which had not hitherto been the subject of a thorough scholarly analysis. Nearly 180 of the beautiful faience treasures, carefully restored for the accompanying special exhibition, are presented in pictures and detailed texts. The magnificent, often masterfully decorated and painted works of art bear witness today to one of the most creative and productive periods in the history of European art, culture and society.
Hardcover
22,5 x 28,5 cm
440 pages
780 color illustrations
German
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-414-0
2013
Editors:
Patricia Brattig, Petra Hesse
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