Traité des arts céramiques ou des poteries, considérées dans leur histoire, leur pratique et leur théorie

• • Is type of work 

    Special collections

By

• • Has author 

    Alexandre Brongniart

Publisher

• Publication

  Paris: 1844

• Year

  • Publication year 

    1844

Type

• Language

  • Has publication language 

    French

Annotations / title notes

• Notes

  • Rare first edition of an important monograph on porcelain by the French palaeontologist Alexandre Brongniart (1770-1845), who was also director of the famous “Facture Royale de Porcelaine de Sèvres” and professor of mineralogy at the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Includes a preface to the French King and “vocabulaire Allemand, Anglais et tables alphabétiques”. The plates show various ceramics by different people from different continents, the various production techniques, and tools. This includes curious plates of the “Fabrication de la porcelaine en Chine, Jarre funéraire du Brésil, Jarres des Cafres” etc.
  • II. Atlas composé de 9 tableaux, plusieurs tables, 60 planches et leur explication
  • I/II. Texte

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